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Tag Archives: Jacques Lacan
terrorism: one fuse at a time
…Though there was an attempt to kill the czar as early as 1866, the first generation of Russian terrorists generally confined their activities to executing traitors or police spies in their own ranks and to reprisals for the tortures, floggings, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albert Camus, Alexander Berkman, Andrei Zhelyabov, Emma Goldman, extremist group Will of the People, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Lacan, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Narodnaia Volia, Slavoj Zizek, Sophia Perovskaia, Turgenev
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terrorism: feeding the resentment
…Every act of terrorism begins, in the eyes of its practitioners, as an instance of counterterrorism. The most murderous cases of terrorism in this century have ostensibly been counterterroristic measures by the police in Stalin’s Russia and Hitler’s Germany; and … Continue reading
shaky illusions of stability
Reality t.v. The ideological image of the wandering jew is a powerful one; this arbitrary condemnation to find redemption in death and symbolic target that encapsulates inconsistent fantastical elements that are part of the Western enlightenment narrative. Commercials where salvation … Continue reading
silent screams: ROFL
Shock of the new. Something outside the rational, ordered mind, that chaotic zone in the dark sphere of the psyche that can never be expressed or given form in speech and the vocabulary of its desire can never be coherent. … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Charles Budelaire, chico marx, Groucho Marx, harpo marx, Jacques Lacan, Modern Chinese art, Modern Chinese Sculpture, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek, The Marx Brothers, the three stooges, Walter Benjamin, Wayne Koestenbaum, Yue Minjun
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foiled hopes
The Enlighenment. The Age of the Enlightenment. The name of an age, the eighteenth century all across Europe and the colonies in the New World and the name of a movement that pervaded and came to dominate that age: a … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged David Hume, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Lacan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Peter Howson, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Slavoj Zizek, Sokari Douglas Camp, The marquis de Sade, Theodor Adorno, Voltaire, Wieland Schonied
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sinking feeling
To Marxists, capitalisms imminent sinking was symbolic in the Titanic. A hundred years later the Commies fell into a pit and capitalism is still around; heavily flawed and perhaps redeemable if the global plutocracy can be dismembered. Oh yeah, that … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Adam Kirsch, Alain Badiou, Andy Warhol, Bell Hooks, Bell Hooks Outlaw Culture, Guy Debord, Jacques Lacan, James Cameron, James Cameron Titanic, Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Slavoj Zizek, Titanic 100th anniversary
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dual core
The paintings and art of the Orientalists, including photography, fostered tourism and a fascination with the Orient that shaped and reinforced the Western image of the Orient that is subjectively under the sway of still existing colonial motivations, religious intolerance … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Davidson, Eduard Charlemont, Edward Said, francois molins, H.G. Wells, Jacques Lacan, James Tissot, Jean Genet, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean Leon Gerome, John Milton, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mohammed Merah, Rabbi Sandler toulouse, Sam Huntington, Slavoj Zizek, toulouse killings
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diverting the flow of history
Just another new state; the least racial, the least religious, the least nationalistic of all states. The most universal of them all. The Martin Buber idea, his model of Israel as a template for a global revolution to change, read … Continue reading
kamp: a day in the life
All acts of reconstruction in which what saves the meaning, is its necessary incompletion. Like Da Vinci never quite finishing a work, or more particularly, unable to complete Jesus’s face in The Last Supper frescoe. The holocaust, despite what Art … Continue reading
down by the river: it ain’t necessarily so
A space with which the undead can talk without moral constraint. Its a de-mythologizing of what is known as Judeo-Christian thought. Mostly disenchanted and without trust in the Covenant nor faith, slightly minimalist and with nihilistic overtones: fatalistic romanticism trampling … Continue reading