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Tag Archives: Jacques Derrida
fanon: violence as cleansing agent
…He returned to Tunis, and, knowing that the remission he enjoyed from leukemia might end at any time, he finished his last and most important book, The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon worked twenty hours a day, interrupting his writing … Continue reading
fanon: relegated to second class
Frantz Fanon. A prophet scorned… …When he had recovered, Fanon returned to Tunis and was appointed FLN ambassador to Accra. His job was to obtain arms and volunteers from Black African nations sympathetic to Algeria. He went at it with … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albert Camus, Battle of Algiers 1957, David Macey, FLN Algeria, FLN Zohra Drif, Frantz Fanon, franz fanon, Jacques Derrida, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michel Foucault, Robert Fulford, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin
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fanon: fanning the flames of renewal
Theory of violent revolution. Theory of an outsider? Fifty years after his death, Frantz Fanon still has an audience but he had a peculiar role as the scorned prophet…. … The government reply was not long in coming- in the … Continue reading
fanon: towards the mystique of violence
…In 1956 the Algerian war, by then two years old, reached Blida and penetrated Fanon’s hospital. The police arrested some of his Algerian male nurses. Next came the turn of one of Fanon’s fellow doctors, a Frenchman who was tortured … Continue reading
we need the pillows : sleeping on “waning skepticism”
From the mouth of Harold Bloom. From his quill to god’s scribe. He represents the archetype of the Gnostic personality. If there is a gnostic personality disorder Bloom is a carrier, transmitter and is chronically infected. Or as he puts … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged artemisia Gentileschi, Caravaggio, Charles Lamb, cima da conegliano, dan geddes, david rosenberg, Dirck Bouts, Giotto di Bordone, Harold Bloom, Jacques Derrida, john collier, jonathan rosen, lawrence Alma-Tadema, pauline pistis, Sam Harris, Wallace Stevens, William Blake
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the saturday evening you’re toast
Is disavowal repressing something unbearable, or at least sublimating it something more palatable and socially acceptable? What often arises is the concept of innocence, a byproduct of this process of disavowal and reluctance to own up and acknowledge what one … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alice Miller, Boris Cyrulnik, da Vinci London Cartoon, Frans Hals, Friedrich Nietzsche, Heinz Kohut, Jacques Derrida, Jean Paul Sartre, Leonardo Da Vinci, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Foucault, Norman Rockwell, sarah kofman, Sigmund Freud
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at the wall of disbelief
It’s another case of utter disbelief. It can be said that disbelief arises, as a primal reaction, before knowledge, rationality, and analysis roll in and suffocate it; attempts to domesticate it, tame the volatile components and explain it away, perhaps … Continue reading
redemption against a brick wall
The representation of trauma. What are the limits, the intersection between the desire to understand and the voyeuristic gaze? The conjunction of political and popular culture can collapse the meaning of distance resulting in a moral strain and ambiguity where … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged alan bullock, Franz Kafka, irving babbitt, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Josef Fritzl, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, piotr uklanski, Ron Rosenbaum, rudolf herz, saul friedlander, Slavoj Zizek, the sound of music, Tom Sachs
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inanimate itch for the kitsch: real men don’t eat kitsch?
Modernist culture is simply not animated by eternal values of the purity of art and abstract truth. Like the dinosaur it failed to adapt and we tossed the baby out with the bath water. Not surprisingly, Walter Benjamin said that … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged bazzano-nelson, Clement Greenberg, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, Esther Leslie, godley and Creme, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, Jeff Koons, kracauer, liliana porter, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Foucault, Roger Scruton, Sigmund Freud, sylvia meyer, Theodor Adorno, W.H. Auden, Walter Benjamin
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