Tag Archives: ernst nolte

Dreyfus: forging the vital lie

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Dave

Necessity now took over entirely. New military blunders and new leaks had to occur. Six months later, just as a new war minister was preparing to have the Dreyfusard leadership put on trial for conspiracy against the security of the … Continue reading →

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violence and loss: dead moon fever

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Dave

The beauty in ambivalence? Theodor Adorno said that after Auschwitz it was impossible to write poetry. But, is attempting to make beautiful art irresponsible? Is it responsible to invoke, to posit, monumentalism to unyielding hopelessness; to imply that nihilism is … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alice Miller, anselm kiefer, bernhard vesper, Donald Kuspit, ernst nolte, Gerhard Richter, Hannah Arendt, Heinrich Heine, Joseph Beuys, mark r. dobbins, Martin Heidegger, sophie fiennes, Theodor Adorno | Leave a comment

descent worries and anxiety: “easy delight”

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Dave

I came across a biography of Maria Landrock who was a celebrity star during the Third Reich. It does force one to look at the role of popular entertainment within its context as part of the entertainment industry pushed to … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged daniel goldhagen, ernst nolte, joseph heath, Leni Riefenstahl, Malcolm Lowry, maria landrock, paul verhoeven, Raul Hilberg, Susan Sontag, susan sontag fascism, Walter Lacquer | Leave a comment

traces of wiped-out existences

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Dave

how is holocaust art received in the land “of the perpetrators”? Well that depends… In a way, its the politics of remembrance and memory.Or at least the problematics. Memory is often the theme with the focus not on what is … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged arthur c. canto, boris lurie, brett ashley kaplan, christian boltanski, ernst nolte, esther shalev-gerz, gunter demnig, harold marcuse, inge stephan, james e. young, jochen gerz, leah rosh, manfred zach, Michel Foucault, peter eisenman, Raul Hilberg, reinhard matz, Ronald Reagan, rudolf herz, Theodor Adorno | Leave a comment

boris lurie: distrubing the ceremony

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Dave

How was holocaust themed art received in the “land of the perpetrators”? Well, For over two decades everyone tried to forget. It was a cultural amnesia and the path of least resistance. Make money. Raise your family. And don’t go … Continue reading →