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normal: what them worry?
Stiff necked? For sure. The perils of Pauline in the desert is clear evidence of that, an unruly nature not easily buying into the coach’s plans for victory and redemption,perhaps setting the seeds for the later exile. But today is … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Benny Gantz, Christopher Hitchens, daphni leef, David Ben Gurion, G.K. Chesterton, Gilles Deleuze, Harold Bloom, Joel Schalit, Marcel Duchamp, MK Michael Ben Ari, MK Regev, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor Herzl, tony judt, Udi Aloni, Yassam special forces, Zionism
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take five with the marquise
Disrupted momentum. A plot, a narrative incident, a moment of the dramatic lending momentum to the whole: Precisely those elements mostly absent in our daily lives, replete as they are with what Walter Benjamin called “messy antics,” confused, shambling and … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Claude Mauriac, Durrel Alexandria Quartet, eugene atget, Francois Mauriac, Gabriel Josipovici, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Cartier-Bresson, James Joyce, James Joyce Ulysses, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Michel Foucault, Nathalie Sarraute, Paul Valery, Rene Magritte, T.S. Eliot, The Art of Noise, Walter Benjamin
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between five and six: cruising with the marquise
The Marquise Went Out at Five. Claude Mauriac put together a fine conception, worked out with a skill that few novelists have the patience or the delicacy to apply.This concept of time that knows neither past, present nor future and … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Andre Gide, Andre Malraux, Claude Mauriac, Francois Mauriac, Gilles Deleuze, Hans Bellmer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Michel Foucault, Nathalie Sarraute, Robert Pinget
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languid luxury: the quicksand complex
Inertia as the root of evil. Is it the same as laziness? What to make of leisure present in the ideologized function of art where an aesthetic of laziness seems connected to the notion of conspicuous consumption, comparative preferences and … Continue reading
brothers in arms: miles from nowhere
Ironic. Kafka’s writing was centered around the concept of non-belonging and by extension, about belonging too much. Almost an adversarial relationship with Maimonides golden mean, the elusive middle. Better to poke emotional catastrophe in the groin and hear he roar … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Caravaggio, David Mairowitz, felice bauer, Franz Kafka, George Steiner, Gilles Deleuze, Hannah Arendt, John Updike, Judith Butler, Marc Chagall, Max Brod, Milena Jesenska, Robert Crumb, Sander L. Gilman, Walter Benjamin
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automatic pilot
Our lives are literally, virtually, based on software. Financial markets are regulated by software. Government is run on software. The military is dependent on software. Financial indexing is dominated by four companies, and despite a bit of fudging, it is … Continue reading
suspicious models of vision: invisible and anonymous
Like H.G. Wells’s The Invisible Man where a scientist discovers a means of making himself invisible, and in the process becomes an insane murderer. Invisibility. Anonymity. Walter Benjamin insisted on the fundamental invisibility of the crowd in Baudelaire’s poetry of … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged blackberry london riots, Charles Baudelaire, claude rains, Gilles Deleuze, graham harwood, gyges, H.G. Wells, Harry Houdini, Jean Leon Gerome, london riots 2011, Michel Foucault, Plato Republic, the invisible man, Walter Benjamin, William Etty
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fat chance: rooting for the longshot
Its the opposite of investment. Its the quick fix. The bottomless pit of desire that cannot be sated. The Janus face of capitalism, money and banking. Is the true aim of the gambler narcissistic and aggressive desires for attaining the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Damon Runyan, edmund bergler, Edmund Burke, fred herzog photography, gambling economics, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, marx brothers at the races, Paul Newman, Paul Samuelson, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, rosel zech, Slavoj Zizek, thorsten brinkmann, Walter Benjamin
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turning the back pages: thin people redux
Can memories be esthetically radicalized? What is the process? Taking the old image, the old picture, what Freud termed the hyper-aesthetic memory, the fragmented slivers of flash, then using them to catalyze creativity. D.W. Winnicott had a genial idea of … Continue reading
gambling : putting a wager on fate
…The gambler becomes the rules by abiding by them, by allowing his actions to be transformed by the rules as he observes them, by allowing the structure to direct the flows of his movements….Is chance a divine game played cosmically … Continue reading