Tag Archives: Jacques Derrida

death wish: the unknown unknowns

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Dave

Death is meaningless. At least when compared to the well-being of the collective. Is war remembrance just part of the death cult; just something more to remember, to save, what has been failed, and failed miserably? All these tombs of … Continue reading →

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generic pop and the bushmen: blues for allah

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Dave

If Nelly Furtado, Mariah Carey and Usher can perform for Gaddafi at the late clans family gatherings under the big tent, then what about ambitious kidnappers from the backwoods of Nigeria…. From the Globe and Mail: Canadian diplomat knew his … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged André Bazin, Bell Hooks, celine dion, Ernest Hemingway, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Godard, louis guay, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, robert fowler, sidney poitier, Toni Morrison, Tony Curtis | Leave a comment

grey tones: before the law

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Dave

…show an unmistakable love of death — a romance with death, indeed, a seduction by death, in which life seems beside the point. The vacuum of feeling. The vacuum of void, of loss, of death. Lifelessness. A broken will to … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged anselm kiefer, Franz Kafka, Goethe, Goethe Faustina, Harold Bloom, Jacques Derrida, Joseph Beuys, Max Brod, Robert Crumb, robert jay lifton, Viktor Frankl | Leave a comment

like necking with siamese twins

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Dave

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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genet’s existence and essence

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Edmund White, Edward Said, hadrien laroche, Jacques Derrida, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Lawrence of Arabia, martin kramer, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, stan persky | Leave a comment

genet: delaying the punch-line

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Dave

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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dislocation : journals of the anti-saint

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Dave

Disturbing. Jean Genet is Downright terrifying. A dark star. A solitude and shimmering of a black star. …Outside select literary circles, Genet is today an almost-forgotten writer, so it’s probably appropriate not only to consider the “last Genet,” but also … Continue reading →

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case of mistaken identity: but not in my backyard

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Dave

Mistaken identity and false pretense. Mistaken identity has always been the source for arriving at some rich existential meanings.But, behind fervent religious belief, is it the will to meaning in the sense of Victor Frankl, or some twisted ideology arising … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bertolt Brecht, David Lynch, Gideon Levy Haaretz, Hegel Philosopher, ingrid peritz, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, jewish taliban, John Zorn, john zorn circle maker, lev tahor sect, marc ribot, menachem kahana, Michel Foucault, patrick martin globe and mail, schreber, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin, warren jeffs | Leave a comment

the trouble with normal: beware the ordinary

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Dave

How are we to explain the behavior of the perpetrators of murder? Often, the factual record is not in doubt, but the historical and moral implications remain at best, ambiguous. It is obvious that our own society and our mass … Continue reading →

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cartoon moderne

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Art

Its just a phase. But it will never totally go away… by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Every graphic designer I know goes through a ‘game box’ phase. specifically, there comes a point in every young designer’s development when they trip across … Continue reading →