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chanting around furnaces…
… The Holocaust. here we have one lesson we can learn from Auschwitz. The Holocaust taught us what man can be. When man alone is permitted to decide how to live his life, the product may be either a saint … Continue reading
complicity in discourtesy
In his seminal work “Obedience to Authority” published in 1974, Stanley Milgram addressed this human capacity to abide passively and without protest in the face of heinous cruelty and blatant deception. Crucially, Milgram wrote: “There is always some element of … Continue reading
blue dog gone-its
Throwing around the Nazi word with little regard. Almost as a metaphor for a Hitler style rant on jews and blacks. Is this Obama’s Southern Strategy. What kind of meat is being fed to the Blue Dogs? Licking the bowl … Continue reading
steampunk yasser: his gabriel’s horns
Thrift shops. Goodwill stores. It’s amazing what you can find there if you dig hard enough and reach into the bottom of the bargain bin or the pay by weight baskets. Of course sensationalism. The news report does not explain … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Ahmad Jibril, Arafat polonium poisoning, Ariel Sharon, Chaplin Monsieur Verdoux, Dr. Kurt Lisso, Edward Trelawny, Gideon Levy, Ion Mihai Pacepa, margaret bourke-white, Nicolae Ceausescu, Shelley's Skull, Suha Arafat, Yasser Arafat polonium, Yassir Arafat polonium, Yossi Sarid
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junk culture & creative destruction: open or closed playground
Citizenship and delinquency. Is destruction creative? Our capitalist system, the system, or ideology of markets is based on the the idea of creative destruction. The implication is that juvenile delinquents, the innately violent and destructive may have the necessary attributes … Continue reading
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Tagged august aichhorn, Charles Baudelaire, fred herzog photography, Helen Levitt photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson, lady allen of hurtwood, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, margaret bourke-white, marie paneth, Sigmund Freud, Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs closed system, stockhausen 9/11, Walter Benjamin
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what price freedom?
A holocaust industry. That god works in mysterious ways seems to be a pretty lame excuse. Forget faith. It was always about the covenant. Trust. The special relationship direct to the throne without intermediary. A misplaced belief? Yahweh simply wasn’t … Continue reading
guess whose coming to dinner?
Does our modern society indicative of a lowering of human freedom and a degradation of the environment or does our science charged culture represent an emancipation from primitive conflict and ignorance? … From an article on researching authenticity and populism. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Miller, August Sander, cannibalism, James Hilton, Jared Diamond, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Verelst, Lawrence H. Keeley, Lord of the Flies, margaret bourke-white, Nicholas Wade, Sigmund Freud, Steven Pinker, Thomas Hobbes, William Golding
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passively complicit outrage
There are a number of near non-resolvable dilemmas that artists face in representing the holocaust in their creations. It addition to contributing a broader and profound understanding of the complexities of this tragedy, there are other considerations such as whether … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Adorno, alan schechner, Bruno Ganz, carol zemel, Claude Lanzmann, Donald Kuspit, Elie Wiesel, Gottfried Helnwein, henryk ross, Jean Paul Sartre, Lee Miller photography, margaret bourke-white, Norman Finkelstein, Raul Hilberg, Theodor Adorno
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