Tag Archives: Franz Rosenzweig

flaneurs and collectors

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Dave

A fascination with the banal, the purely mediocre or downright almost instantly obsolescent; the unspectacular and all that is the antithesis of the Society of the Spectacle. An effort to exploit, better still, to redefine and re-perceive the radical potential … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged arlo guthrie, Charles Baudelaire, Franz Hessel, Franz Kafka, Franz Rosenzweig, Frederico Fellini, Gustave Caillebotte, Harold Bloom, Max Horkheimer, occupy wall street, Pete Seeger, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

songs of love and hate: shoot the boer

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Dave

Is rap music a cultural commodity basically to titillate and spice up the mayonnaise and white bread diet of the white audience? The hyper-masculine enlivening experiences within a dominant, essentially conservative, consumerist, racist and militant preponderant white society with its … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Bell Hooks, Bell Hooks Outlaw Culture, Carl Jung, dale farm, dale farm travellers, Donald Kuspit, Franz Rosenzweig, julius maleema, Richard Hamilton, richard hamilton pop art, Roger Fry, steve nesius, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

everybody knows : too long in exile

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Dave

Everybody Knows. As Palestine steps up to the plate with a request, a demand to be granted statehood. Like the story Casey at the Bat by Ernest Thayer, we know the game is fixed, and Casey will whiff. Is this … Continue reading →

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I’m O.K you’re not O.K: Death wish

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Dave

Self-destruction as aesthetic pleasure? The Aryan myth was born as a minor issue in comparative linguistics at the end of the eighteenth-century. From there it assumed proportions of a full-fledged racial theory in the Romantic age that welded sentimentality, blood, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Adolf Ziegler, Cosima Wagner, Franz Rosenzweig, Friedlander, Grosz, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Leni Riefenstahl, Maria tatar, Max Horkheimer, Richard and Cosima Wagner, Richard Wagner, Sontag, Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

MOON ROCKS & SHAKESPEARE’S SECRET AUTHOR TALKS

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Dave

This year sees a 25th anniversary re- publication of Margaret Atwood‘s dystopian classic,”The Handmaid’s Tale” about an oppressive America of the future where sexual reproduction is both a eugenics of mind and action. The Handmaids are forced to provide children by proxy … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Amelia Bassano, Amelia Bassano Lanier, Amitav Ghosh, Apollo 11 hoax, Arthur C. Clarke, Bill kaysing, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Newman Guardian, Christine de Pisan, Christopher Marlowe, Dan David Prize, Dave Itzkoff, David Percy, David Percy and Mary Bennett, Dr. Werner Van Braun, Ezra Glinter, Francis Bacon, Franz Rosenzweig, Henry James, Horkheimer, Jennifer Matsui, Joe O'Connor, John Hudson Dark lady Players, John Hudson Shakespeare, John Hundson, Kate McLuskie, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Atwood israel, Mark Twain, mary Bennett, Max Horkheimer, Michael Egan, Michael Egan Oxfordian, Michael Egan Shakespeare, Michel Foucault, Monzer Zimmo, Paul Jacobs, Sigmund Freud, Sir Francis Bacon, Sir John Gilbert, The Frankfurt School, The Oxfordian, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Werner von Braun | 2 Comments

LAYERS & LAYERS OF DREAMS WITHIN DREAMS

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Dave

Quite brilliantly, John Ruskin wrote of the Seven Lamps of Architecture; the seven lamps ,”lamps” meaning that which illuminates the mind or soul of sacred architecture. They are: sacrifice, truth, power, beauty, life, memory, and obedience; and when combined, they … Continue reading →