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Tag Archives: Joseph Conrad
great emancipator
Russia’s great emancipator. Ivan Turgenov helped bring freedom to the serfs by an ingeniously devastating method: showing them what their lives were like… “Almost everything I saw aroused in me a feeling of embarrassment, indignation, and disgust…In my eyes the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Flaubert, ivan turgenev, Ivan Turgenev A Sportman's Sketches, Joseph Conrad, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nikolai Dmitriev-Orenburgsky painter, Spasskoye Petrovna Estate, Tsarskoe Selo Russia, Vavara Petrovna, Winter Palace Russia
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international society of savage customs
What evil lurks in the heart of man? Maybe it doesn’t lurk, rather it dances, it teases, it flatters, it cajoles, it manipulates and end up getting its way. How? The dynamics must be complicated.Especially when evil gets under the … Continue reading
terror: strategies of the absurd
…The Palestinians terror groups appear to have made the strategy of the absurd into a specialty: the sheer audacity, historically, of their most spectacular exploits seems to flout any criteria of rational behavior. However, other groups practice the same basic … Continue reading
terror: sheer, irrational madness
…Even more distinctive of modern terrorism, asĀ opposed to its origins, is the random nature of its violence. Earlier terrorists usually had some specific and comprehensible grievance against their victims. Quite often the attack was in retaliation for the acts … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Black September terrorists, Dr. George Habache, General Trepov, Ivan Kaliaiev, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent, Lod Airport Massacre 1972, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Modern terrorism, Munich Olympics Israel Olympic Team, Vera Zasulich
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madness alone is truly terrifying
or so said Joseph Conrad. The terrorists… …In nineteenth-century usage, however, attacks on the official establishment were conventionally terms acts of terror, and their perpetrators were ipso facto terrorists. Underlying the verbal convention lay a common pool of genuine fear: … Continue reading
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Tagged Anarchism history, Archduke Ferdinand, French Revolution Reign of Terror, General Fedor Trepov, Jacobin Party France, Joseph Conrad, Lod Airport Massacre 1972, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, President McKinley, Terrorism history, Terrorism PLO, Vera Zasulich
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terror: the modern condition
“Madness alone is truly terrifying.” – Joseph Conrad Terrorism appears to be a specific malady of modern civilization. No other society, we tend to assume, has suffered to the same extent from precisely the same social and moral pestilence. This … Continue reading
good neighbors: exterminate the brutes!
Senses of systematic collapse, an implosion borne of an inability to transcend inherent tensions from the use of the “other” as socialĀ safety valve. Moments of madness. Is the point of power ultimately to prolong its use and attenuation while … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aftermath movie, Jan Tomasz Gross, Jedwabne massacre, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness, Liel Leibovitz, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, The law in These Parts movie, wladyslaw pasikowski
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moving sale
Its always the same story:in the grip of forces they do not really understand; something out of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Behind all these protestors and “freedom fighters” is a risk of unchaining a process that cannot be contained … Continue reading
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Tagged Benghazi Consulate attack, Bernard Haykel, Charlie Wilson's War movie, Chris Stevens US Embassy Tripoli, Debbie Schlussel, Innocence of Muslims film, Israel Love iran campaign, Joseph Conrad, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood Egypt, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, Pastor Terry Jones, Pat Robertson 700 Club, Pat Robertson Muslims, Salafists Egypt, Salafists Syria, Sam Bacile, Savonarola, Shaul Hanuka, Steve Klein, Steve Klein and Sam Bacile, U.S. Embassy Cairo
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in search of paradise
In our shrinking globe it appears more difficult to find those elusive Shangri-la’s. Do a few endure, besides deep in our imagination, the longing and desire for the unfettered and fulfilling life, that special place where no one wants to … Continue reading
paradise found lost and imagined
In search of paradise. In our shrinking globe there are not too many paradise’s that still endure. At the Red Fort in Delhi, one can still see decorative Persian script of the seventeenth-century over the arches illuminating the words, ” … Continue reading