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WEIMAR ARCADE: Shoot the Hypnotist First
Or is the hypnotist merely the decoy, the puppet of even greater evil? The Weimar resemblance? Its nervous, alienated, and often brilliant culture can seem uncomfortably like our own. But, is the sickness that killed the German Republic of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertram M. Gross, Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Ed Driscoll, Eric D. Weitz, Erich Maria Remarque, John Heartfield, Julien Benda, Kurt Weill, Marianne Faithfull, Max Beckmann, Max Ernst, Michael Brenner, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Dix, Peter Rex Valentine, Thomas Mann
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WEIMAR REPUBLIC and the UNCANNY “SECOND SIGHT”
“A member asked what was the ethos of German Expressionism, suggesting it was ‘cultural despair’. The speaker reiterated his title phrase: ‘an explosive cocktail of cultural despair and political instability’, adding that the German character seemed almost morbid in its … Continue reading
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Tagged Alma Mahler, Bauhaus Art, Bertolt Brecht, Carl Zuckermayer, Chris Hedges, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Emil Jannings, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Grosz, George J.W. Goodman, Heinrich Mann, Howard Buffet, James Turk, Josef Albers, Kurt Weill, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Louis Proyect, Lyonel Feininger, Marianne Faithfull, Marlene Dietrich, Max Beckmann, Noam Chomsky, Otto Dix, Paul Gough, Paul Klee, Peter Rex Valentine, Richard Nixon, Rosa Luxemburg, Seth Taylor, Walter Gropius, Warren Buffet, Wassily Kandinsky
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THE WEIMAR “LAST TRANCE” CABARET: Escaping to Feed Your Head
For Walter Benjamin, this was the real significance of the First World War, “an attempt at a new and unprecedented commingling with the cosmic powers.” He worried that mankind’s alienation from itself was deepening “to such a degree that it … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertholt Brecht, Bertolt Brecht, Carl Mayer, David Weigel, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Grosz, Glenn Beck, Hans Janowitz, Herman Hesse, John Wonder, Kurt Weill, Lovis Corinth, Marianne Faithfull, Max Beckmann, Mike Huckabee, Otto Dix, Peter Rex Valentine, Robert Whealy, Robert Wiene, Sen. Jim DeMint, Steven Ozmet, Walter Benjamin, Weimar Republic
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SLEEPWALKING IN WEIMAR: Hypnosis in the Asylum
Quoting Hesse’s Steppenwolf -‘Human life is reduced to hell only when two ages two cultures overlap. Now there are times when a whole generation is caught between two ages with a consequence it looses all power to understand itself and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alban Berg, August Strindberg, Carl Mayer, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Franz Kafka, Franz Werfel, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Grosz, Gottfried-Benn, Hans Janowitz, Herman Hesse, Otto Dix, Peter Rex Valentine, Robert Weine, Robert Wiene, Seth Taylor, Walter Benjamin
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