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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

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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

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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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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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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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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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