Tag Archives: Marcel Duchamp

power of ungrateful

wonder what could happen when two people under the influence get together. And everything was going so well! The text is a rip-off of the popular meme translated into French and placed within the new context. ” I don’t often..” … Continue reading

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kafka: shapes of things

Shapes and shadows harboring within the terrors of the modern world. Dehumanized. Alienation and isolation in all places and within every context. Like Josef K being slandered,”without his having done anything bad, he was arrested one fine morning.” The spirit … Continue reading

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gas leak

The crappy nothingness of it all that skirts the foggy perimeter that defines vulgarity and respectability with a play on the pretensions of class and its relation to income. A sort of laughing gas that comes out of the human … Continue reading

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two shovels: digging for lazarus

The society of the spectacle to which we all belong  treads a thin line between derealization  and the ambiguous nature of our cultural code that straddles reality and kitsch. And if any place on earth becomes part of the spectacle … Continue reading

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just a clean cut kid

….Crimes and punishment?  The Samer Issawi saga. Unrepentant, defiant, a blood-lust for the infidel and an inferno of anger he seems willing to go down for the sake of martyrdom. In our digital age where the reproduction of “news” is … Continue reading

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hannah and her whispers

A relationship of power and violence and how they are inversely proportional. Or so said Hannah Arendt which could well constitute a pillar in her own inversely proportional posthumous power and the violence that has fed on her words thorugh … Continue reading

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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

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the chosen: wandering decisions

Tyranny of the majority. Its a stock character today, but is the perhaps dominant cultural aesthetic of our time: the endless variations on the neurotic and hyperarticulate, as well as sexually obsessed individual; throw in issues of class and assimilation … Continue reading

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hessel: stuck down gideon’s well

Peculiar man this Stephane Hessel. The man of no fixed address in the spiritual sphere, floating vaguely between strains of Jewish thought and Christianity who grounded himself by welding his soul onto onto the deck of likely the ship of … Continue reading

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the mono men: back to me, myself and sigh

The Hawkins, Hitchens legacy… The atheist, too, would not dare deny himself a god and why not get personally involved in the god business; they have a god and it is themselves.  You could say that the pagan, the idolator … Continue reading

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