Tag Archives: Franz Kafka

kafka: a gate made only for you

Visions that contained all the dark terrors that haunt today’s world. The interplay of shapes and shadows of the modern world in a dance with the emptiness of nihilism, the spirit of old ghettos and of vast , unapproachable and … Continue reading

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kafka: shapes of things

Shapes and shadows harboring within the terrors of the modern world. Dehumanized. Alienation and isolation in all places and within every context. Like Josef K being slandered,”without his having done anything bad, he was arrested one fine morning.” The spirit … Continue reading

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first world war: hysterical tremors

No doubt we shall never understand the First World War completely. The malaise, the something sinister and strange lying beneath the prosperity of a seemingly newly minted modern age. The lust for violence, the belief in death and the ominous … Continue reading

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where are the box cutters?

…Staring dumbly through the glass. At a base level, it is amoral, as interested in invoking destruction as in positing creation. There he is, in a glass cage, dreaming of the supernormal solution and giving off the vibe of misery, … Continue reading

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cold irons bound: don’t let my people go

The Jonathan Pollard industry. There are plenty of howls and whines to let Jonathan Pollard go, as if he is some victim in Kafka story of deep injustice of the system. Stuck in the in-between space of Kafka’s Before The … Continue reading

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gatekeepers

Shin Bet and the problem of evil. We are entering a new aesthetic of film where the old cops and robbers dramas as been transformed into the realm of national security and law enforcement is elevated to what used to … Continue reading

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jail bird on a wire

In the state of Israel even the corruption is holy. Kosher corruption. The narrative reads something like the America in the wild and wooly days of the political mudslinging in the Mark Twain era. The bare knuckles brawling and verbal … Continue reading

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hiding the antidote: no more mr. nice guy

The existence of evil in a world under divine supervision has consternated and troubled minds since the Almighty put the serpent into the garden of Eden. It is always remarkable how ostensibly calm and reasonable people, logical people, can break … Continue reading

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fanon: still finding edge

…Fanon died of double pneumonia on December 6, 1961, six months before the liberation of Algeria. He was thirty-six years old. His body was flown back to Tunis with Ollie Iselin, the CIA operative, who attended his funeral. He was … Continue reading

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klein: cats running with the pack

Like a cat running after any mouse that happens to stray within view. That first reflex, the first nature in the human being, is unavoidable and inalterable. It can be mastered, it can be conquered, but it remains. But mind … Continue reading

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