Tag Archives: Jay Winter

WEIMAR AND THE VIOLENCE OF AMNESIA: Trope of a Troubled Burial

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Dave

Accusations of elitism, populous slanders of the word as pejorative have been unleashed as aprt of the American cultural landscape in this season of discontent. Can we take lessons form the Weimar Republic? The right wing tone of academia in … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Albert Birkle, August Sander, Charles Baudelaire, Dostoyevsky, Ernst Junger, Georges Bataille, Hegel Philosopher, Herbert von Reyl-Hanisch, Irving Wohlfahrt, Jay Winter, Jeanne Mammen, Martin Buber, Oskar Kokoschka, Pierre Missac, Stefan George, Stephane Moses, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

11:11:11 IMAGINE NO REMEMBRANCE

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Dave

First of all, should we begin by remembering ourselves? What underlies the tension between recollection and forgetting; the desire to remember and the impulse to forget? Can there be a pleasure associated with both? Ultimately, there is a will that … Continue reading →