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vienna: codes unknown
Slavoj Zizek once said the fundamental principle of Freudian psychoanalysis, that of the “discord between the logic of the psychic apparatus and the demands of reality”; Stanley Milgram once termed the area formed between Budapest, Prague and Vienna, the Golden … Continue reading
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Tagged Elfriede Jelinek, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Habsburg Empire, Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maria Theresa of Austria, Martin van Meytens, Michael Haneke, Slavoj Zizek, Stanley Milgram, Wilhelm Reich
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the breaking package
The country that gave us Sigmund Freud, Stanley Milgram and Friedrich Hayek economics.That gave us Josef Fritzl, and Hitler and Viktor Frankl and Wittgenstein. And Ludwig von Mises. And Schubert and Wilhelm Reich. Always an uneasy blend between Eastern and … Continue reading
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Tagged Elfriede Jelenik, Elfriede Jelinek, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Habsburg Empire, Hofburg Palace, Josef Fritzl, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin van Meytens, Michael Haneke, Michael Haneke Amour, Michael Haneke Cannes, Prince Khevenhuller-Metsch, Sigmund Freud, Winter Riding School of the Hofburg
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zizek: the sound of normal
Going reel to real with the unknown knowns.It is also a form of containment of the truly perverse under the comforting auspices of the normal. In the same way, it much easier to imagine the end of the world than … Continue reading
mona lisa: still crazy for the old flame
Its persistence to in capturing the public’s imagination is in itself one of the painting’s imagined mysteries. Perhaps mysteries that have been more created and fermented by the legions of art critics and scholars than was actually imagined and figured … Continue reading
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Tagged Carla Gloria, Dan Brown, E.H. Gombrich, Elfriede Jelinek, Ernst Gombrich, Hieronymous Bosch, James Adams, Jonathan Jones, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Leonardo Da Vinci, Marcel Duchamp, Mario Livio, Marquis de Sade, Ross Killpatrick, Scott Lund, Silvano Vinceti, The Golden Ratio
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VIENNA & MISGUIDED GENIUS: Ambiguous Dreams and Joyful Apocalypse
Although scholars agreed that Vienna was not the only place where Modernism achieved sweeping successes, it was still common practice to regard “Vienna as the focal point of European Modernism” . Scholars consider that European Modernism reached its purest and most concentrated expression in Vienna … Continue reading
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Tagged Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Schnitzler, Bruno Walter, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, Egon Schiele, Elfriede Jelinek, Franz Kafka, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler, H.L. Mencken, Hermann Bahr, Hermann Kurzke, Mahler, Max Nordau, Nina Hagen, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Weininger, Peter Altenberg, Rudolf Steiner, Sigmund Freud, The Good Soldier Schweik, Thomas Mann
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TAKE A WALTZ: A Kampf of Bohemian Rhapsodies
Now in Vienna there’s ten pretty women There’s a shoulder where Death comes to cry There’s a lobby with nine hundred windows There’s a tree where the doves go to die There’s a piece that was torn from the morning … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Schnitzler, Beethoven, Elfriede Jelinek, Giacomo Puccini, Gilles Deleuze, Gustav Mahler, Hermann Bahr, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Lacan, John Champagne, Jules Wellesley, Karl Lueger, Karl Lueger Vienna mayor, Leonard Cohen, Maria Van Dijk, Michael Haneke, Richard Strauss, Sigmund Freud, Stanley Kubrick, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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MUSIC & MADNESS: AN IMP OF A LIBRETTO
A cursed libretto is not your typical campfire ghost story.Its not a joking anecdote to be easily dismissed either. Its one helluva an imp who has displayed wildly inconsistent behavior over the years. The specific association of music and madness … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Brian Wilson, Bruce Elder, Buddy Holly, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Daniel Kreps, Denis Diderot, Django Reinhardt, Donizetti, E.T.A. Hoffman, Echo Lamb, Elfriede Jelinek, Elvis Presley, Etienne Carjot, Foucault, Francesco Piave, Francis Toye, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Schiller, Gunter grass, Hegel, Heinrich von Kleist, Jack Unteweger, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Lennon, John Malkovich, Kate Connolly, Kurt Vonnegut, Lana Clarkson, Leonardo Da Vinci, Martin Haselbock, Martin Scorsese, Melchiorre Delfico, Merelli La Scala, Michael Sturminger, Mick Brown, Norman Mailer, Phil Spector, Renata Tibaldi, Robert Johnson, Rossini, Shakespeare, The Ramones, Tina Turner, Victor Hugo, Vikram Jayanti, Voltaire
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A COUPLE COUGARS:These Cats Are really Gone
Going Rogue in the wild. A tandem of dysfuntional cougars, who escaped the idyllic Cougar Town setting of the wildlife preservation. Harkening to the call of the past and a howl to the more enigmatic qualities of human nature. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alex de Toqueville, Cougar Town, Elfriede Jelinek, Elmer Gantry, GOP, Hillary Clinton, Huck Finn, Hungary, Hungary Politics, Jobbik, Jobbik Party, Ken Kesey, Krisztina Morvai, Michael Haneke, Nick Griffin, Sarah Palin, Sinclair Lewis, tabatha Southey
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OUR BEDFELLOW WHO ART …. IN INIQUITY
Whips, Knives and dreams of mass destruction. The Marquis de Sade. He knew what we have taken a long time to learn….sex is not just something that happens in a bedroom.Mankind is not doing well at the moment, but mankind … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Conan Doyle, Brien, C.P.Snow, Edmund Wilson, Elfriede Jelinek, Ian Brady, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Sutherland, Josef Frizl, Kate O, Lesley Ann Downey, Man Ray, Marquis de Sade, mary Ellmann, Myra Hindley, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Rasputin, Stanislav Plutenko, Werner Fassbinder
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