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outlaw culture: drawn to darkness
Drawn to darkness and obscurity, but with a tenacious grip onto the light. Pure forms existing, withstanding, even though they convey impressions of isolation and alienation. There is a heroism of the outlaw, a kind of aesthetic, a beauty of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged arthur goldreich, Bell Hooks Outlaw Culture, black september, Edmund White, Edward Said, gilad schalit, gilad shalit, hadrien laroche, holly downing, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, marlene dumas, noami klein, ronit lentin, stan persky, Z communications Michael Albert
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exit strategy: swap and shop
Complex identities and conflicting and conflicted identities struggling with the burden of cynicism. Its hard to find the spiritual in profane times. But lets not work to hard at it.Dense and dark, the lyrical and the epic; the brooding and … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Chaim Soutine, Edmund White, Edward Said, gilad schalit, gilad shalit, hadrien laroche, Jean Genet, Martin Buber, martin kramer, meir margalit, milly heyd, Paul Klee, rembrandt the jewish bride, Theodore Gericault, Walter Benjamin
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snap crackle and popping the con game
Can we shun a linear narrative, that narcotic like pacifier marked by its insistence, frequency and heavy dosage 7/24 in favor of a collage of episodes and impressions which means, by extension, a personal engagement with subculture. This also implies … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Auguste Blanqui, corey ogilvie, Donald Kuspit, Edmund White, Friedrich Nietzsche, fritz zuber-buhler, gene franks, hadrien laroche, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Jonathan McIntosh, occupy wall street, W.B. Yeats, Walter Benjamin
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in between a boundary and a border
Border crossings. Illegal and clandestine transportation of the self to another realm….”Crimes of which a people are ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.” (Jean Genet) Its an image of the collapsing moment, liberated from the … Continue reading
like necking with siamese twins
Why should violence be disavowed? After all, its just part of a tragic narrative seen within the context of the world’s greater failure and shortcomings. Perhaps, if we can remove the varnish of its mythology, we can, as Jean Genet … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbie Hoffman, Allan Krapow, Clement Greenberg, Donald Kuspit, Edmund White, Frantz Fanon, Franz Kafka, George Soros, Georges Sorel, hadrien laroche, Jacques Derrida, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Lucille Ball, Marcel Duchamp, mark ruffalo, martin kramer, Max Horkheimer, murray krieger, occupy wall street, Piet Mondrian, Walter Benjamin
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genet’s existence and essence
Complexity of atmosphere and motive. Are morality and aesthetics mutually exclusive? In the case of Jean Genet, does eroticizing the victims, often his own lovers, wipe the slate clean, peeling away the layers of Judeo-Chrisitian morality? Jean Genet always put … Continue reading
genet: love comes in spurts
.Masks. Mirrors. Symbols. Rituals, dreams and trances… Jean Genet’s The Blacks is constructed of two simultaneous plays within the play, one performed on stage, the other out in the wings. When the lights come up, several couples are discovered turning … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, angela davis, Edmund White, hadrien laroche, Hannah Arendt, jane fonda, Jean Paul Sartre, jessica mitford, Ken Kesey, Leo Bersani, Leonor fini, martin kramer, Michael McClure, Michel Foucault, steven maynard, steven mayrand, tom hayden
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genet: delaying the punch-line
Jean Genet:”A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness” Genet’s stage is a space where politics and metaphysics collide, and partly fuse.Some of it sticks to the wall. Like … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, black panther party, Bobby Seale, Edmund White, elbert howard, Georges Bataille, hadrien laroche, Henri Bernard-Levy, Huey Newton, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, joseph strick, Ken Kesey, Peter Falk, Slavoj Zizek, stan persky
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genet: risk and the safety of ritual
If we were talking only of the prose such as Our Lady and Journal of the Flowers, it might perhaps be possible to sweep past Genet. These books are books of prismatic brilliance, containing scene after scene of bizarre or … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, bernard henri-levy, Bernard-Henry Levy, Edmund White, genet the balcony, hadrien laroche, hans koechler, Henry Miller, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, stan persky, William Burroughs
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