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ethics and idle fancy: in the attic
Kafka was as much about non-arrival at destinations as he was about non-belonging. In any event there are problems of destination and leaving, coming and going often resemble each other. But as Kafka seems to figure, the pull of Jews … Continue reading
sign of the times: tainted logic
The Aryan myth began inconspicuously as a minor issue in comparative linguistics at the end of the eighteenth-century and then assumed a life of its own of disproportionate dimensions in the romantic age that morphed into a racial theory of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Adolf Ziegler, Arno Breker, Edouard Manet, Fassbinder, Gustave Courbet, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Ivo Saliger, Joseph Thorak, Paul Cezanne, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sontag, Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin
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Oscar and the academy specter of death: just drink it like socrates
Its a metaphor for orgasm. Sex and death. The French term it “le petite mort” or the little death, where sex and death are linked from the spiritual release that comes with orgasm. As the Oscars get handed out, are … Continue reading
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Tagged Camille Watson, Debra A. Sandler, Diane Keaton, Ernest Becker, Fassbinder, George Grosz, Jean Paul Sartre, Margaux Williamson, Otto Dix, Otto Rank, Peter Falk, Peter Greenaway, Robert Warshow, Socrates, Stuart Elliott, Tim Roth, Woody Allen
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Dix & threepenny opera: an explicit body politic
The classic Bertolt Brecht question was an examination of the inconceivable; two forces in which it was not possible to reconcile: how can people be dignified and ethical under capitalism? The stock market as a Three-Penny Opera. The petty thieving, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, David Hare, Edwin Black, Fassbinder, Francis Galton, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jack Morgan, James Watson, John Carney, Kurt Weill, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Craig Blankfein, Matt Taibbi, Michel Foucault, Otto Dix, Pecora Commission, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Randy Newman, T.S. Eliot, Toulouse-Lautrec
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LOST BERLIN:BABYLON & BOOGIE AT THE BRANDENBURG GATE
A macabre gaiety pervaded Berlin like an intoxicating smog. There was no shortageof drink, drugs, or beautiful women. “There are two kinds of places,” wrote a contemporary of Bertolt Brecht, ” those one talks about, and those one doesn’t talk … Continue reading
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Tagged Anita Berber, Bertolt Brecht, Dave Riley, Dita Von Teese, Duke Ellington, Erich Maria Remarque, Fassbinder, George Grosz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jason Lutes, Joel Dorn, John Fuegi, Josephine Baker, Katherine Farmar, Kurt Weill, Leni Riefenstahl, Liza Minelli, Luigi Bazini, Marlene Dietrich, Mel Gordon, Nina Hagen, Robert J. Sternberg, Rosa Luxemburg, Sander L. Gilman, Scott J. Thompson, Shinan Govani, Solomon Asch, Stephen Lemons, Thomas Mann, Vladimir Nabokov, Walter Benjamin, Werner Fassbinder, Wolf Von Eckardt
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No Place Left to Hide
A provocative current; a cocktail of creative energy and psychic auto mutilation produced what would be termed ”New German Cinema” . A social vomit and psychic bile of four centuries of German thought.Rainer Werner Fassbinder( 1945-1982) became metaphorically , a … Continue reading
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Tagged Fassbinder, Mark Jenkins, New German Cinema, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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