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grammatical fears? try the fold-in method
The phrases “literary inhibitions” and “grammatical fears” are revealing as a sort of post-modern aesthetic that had their roots particularly in the jargon and anti-language of the Beat poets and writing as a performance art. in their crude way they … Continue reading
fanon: stoking the flames of freedom
Frantz Fanon and the Wretched of the Earth. A prophet scorned. Fifty years after Frantz Fanon’s death, there is still an audience for this theorist of revolution. Question is, are the ideas relevant in an era of post-modernism?… …But prophets … Continue reading
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Tagged angela davis, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Fanon Wrtetched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon, franz fanon, Hannah Arendt, Huey Newton, Jean Genet, Jean Genet Black Panthers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Fulford, Slavoj Zizek, The Black Panther Movement
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fanon: prospero complex
Frantz Fanon. The prophet scorned. Fifty years after his death, the audience is still attentive. Violence as the path of least resistance? …The second symptom of the Prospero complex is the symbolic equation of black skin with evil. One descends … Continue reading
fanon: scorning with caliban
Frantz Fanon. The prophet scorned. This theorist of revolution, dead for the past fifty years, still finds an audience… …The settler meanwhile, having created this Caliban, fears the animal qualities with which he has invested it. The settler develops what … Continue reading
dry bones: toothbrush testers
And presto! There’s polonium. Like magic. Like a bad propaganda flick, the blood libel appears in a new form. Arthur Rimbaud would laugh at this disordering of the senses; this artificial, contrived non-event that can be ascribed to an inauthentic … Continue reading
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Tagged Amin al-Husseini, Arthur Rimbaud, Dr. Eli Karmon, Israel Ketziot prison, Jean Genet, Jean Genet PLO, judge Edmund Levy, Khaled Meshal, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, MK Yariv Levin, Paul Hirschson, Suha Arafat, Yassir Arafat autopsy, Yassir Arafat polonium
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between five and six: cruising with the marquise
The Marquise Went Out at Five. Claude Mauriac put together a fine conception, worked out with a skill that few novelists have the patience or the delicacy to apply.This concept of time that knows neither past, present nor future and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Gide, Andre Malraux, Claude Mauriac, Francois Mauriac, Gilles Deleuze, Hans Bellmer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Michel Foucault, Nathalie Sarraute, Robert Pinget
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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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