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Tag Archives: Josef Fritzl
sandusky: labyrinth of fourth and long
Sandusky is a kind of minotaur who sacrificed human victims. This primal, nihilistic rejection in which nearly everything is lost, shattered, despised, mocked and unrepairable. It suggests the sadism uses and abuses the body as an identification with a nightmarish … Continue reading
the breaking package
The country that gave us Sigmund Freud, Stanley Milgram and Friedrich Hayek economics.That gave us Josef Fritzl, and Hitler and Viktor Frankl and Wittgenstein. And Ludwig von Mises. And Schubert and Wilhelm Reich. Always an uneasy blend between Eastern and … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Elfriede Jelenik, Elfriede Jelinek, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Habsburg Empire, Hofburg Palace, Josef Fritzl, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin van Meytens, Michael Haneke, Michael Haneke Amour, Michael Haneke Cannes, Prince Khevenhuller-Metsch, Sigmund Freud, Winter Riding School of the Hofburg
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shafia: pet rats in a skinner box touch his lever
and so it is. Like Freud’s Totem and Taboo, we have an ape man living in groups dominated by an all powerful father who kept all women for his own exclusive sexual use and abuse. Unlimited, buffet style access to … Continue reading
Unknown knowns: less favorite things
Sacred intensity? Is it kitsch, contrived, organized sentimental logic advocating tolerance or a gateway to perverse desires? The theory of Slavoj Zizek is that natural and caring urges ultimately lead to silly, maudlin fantasies or its flip side: the types … Continue reading
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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