Tag Archives: Ernst Bloch

imagination: leaving the gray elysium

An ambivalence to life reflected nowhere more so than the child’s relationship to memory, at once complete, graphic  and epic yet vague, blurry and unfinished. And why not, given the facility to escape, to flee at one’s leisure the fairytale … Continue reading

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cabaret voltaire: an arcade project

Dada as just another shop, another boutique in the arcade? Dada put into question the myths surrounding originality, and the relationship of the artist to the category of “genius”. Dada suggested instead, or implied that everyone could be an artist, … Continue reading

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Will the last one turn out the lights

Separating the saints from the sinners is being a much more protracted process than was initially foreseen. Due to an unheralded demand, there will at least be a second sitting for the Last Supper.After all, we’ve been on tenterhooks,a seemingly … Continue reading

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bosch: strawberry fields nor ever

A cursing of those fanatical, demented, crazed…tormentors and executioners….The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch has certainly puzzled viewers. It is one of the most mysterious and enigmatic paintings ever done. Only five hundred years later has its meaning … Continue reading

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UTOPIAN DREAMS & SCHEMES and IN-BETWEENS

What is Utopia and why does it attract both hope and skepticism in equal measure?  In a way that appears meaningful, it is a productive inner tensions between two tendencies: a positive optimistic utopianism and a negative utopian pessimism. A … Continue reading

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EFFIGIES OF HOPE & ILLUSIONS OF DESPAIR

”They are scared of the inner truth about themselves, more particularly, about acknowledging psychic conflict and trauma as well as the primary creativity evidenced by fantasy (especially dreams). I think the early modernists – Gauguin, Redon, Max Ernst, de Chirico, … Continue reading

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A SALTY DOG FLOATS ON

‘All hands on deck, we’ve run afloat!’ I heard the captain cry ‘Explore the ship, replace the cook: let no one leave alive!’ Across the straits, around the Horn: how far can sailors fly? A twisted path, our tortured course, … Continue reading

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THE HOPE PRINCIPLE

The Medusa, a naval frigate, ran aground off Mauritania in July 1816. Only about 250 of the 400 people on board could fit into the lifeboats. On a jerry-built raft about 150 of the others were set adrift. By the … Continue reading

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BEING DOES NOT = E + MC 2

Though the goal of spontaneous human combustion can also  be attained by splitting atoms and achieving fission in the more social sciences. The vocabulary of art is, a priori, a language. That is, its aim is to communicate to others … Continue reading

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