Tag Archives: Martin Buber

hitchens guide to the galaxy

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Dave

To many, he might not be missed, but he left few indifferent. A collision of atheism out of the academy and into the real world. He might have done for atheism what Marcel Duchamp did for art, except in reverse: … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Baruch Spinoza, Charlie Rose, Christopher Hitchens, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.K. Chesterton, Harold Bloom, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, mother teresa, Richard Dawkins, Salman Rushdie, Sam Harris, shmuley boteach | Leave a comment

redemption against a brick wall

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Dave

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 | Leave a comment

at the approach of madness the tide recedes

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Dave

Mercy. To be relieved of one’s own consciousness. Codifying surrealism into a vernacular language.Not like the mutuality of life and death, the proximity of opening a heavy dark door and entering the blackness to grab your attention.If you can’t leave … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, david wojnarowicz, Donald Kuspit, Edgar Allan Poe, Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, Martin Buber, morgan meis, Paul Verlaine, wyatt mason | Leave a comment

boredom: waiting for something to happen

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Dave

and so it is so Modern boredom. Deep-seated boredom. The suspension of relations with reality and its replacement mined from the depths of the netherworld splitting into variations of nothingness; a world without meaning, without autonomy and without larger connections … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend | Tagged austin warren, Charles Baudelaire, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Kafka, Heinrich Heine, irving babbitt, Jean Renoir, joel-peter witkin, John Everett Millais, Lucian Freud, Marcel Proust, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, Milan Kundera, Pierre Auguste Renoir, ralph greenson, Samuel Beckett, Soren Kierkegaard | Leave a comment

on the wings of the mundane

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Dave

Salvation of the mundane. An ambiguous friendship with the gnostic demons. Is a salvation nebulous in form a salvation anyway. Salvation light. Not too filling. Not too holy with just a thin layer in the abridged form of contemplation of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Albert Camus, austin warren, boredom, Flaubert, Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka Albert Camus, irving babbitt, jerome witkin, joel-peter witkin, Joseph Campbell, M.C. Escher, Martin Buber, Max Horkheimer, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Walter Benjamin, Walter Sickert | Leave a comment

from that time onwards forever

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Dave

A challenging of culture, a culture which wants to negate, almost perversely, intense human dramas, wants to banalize them into kitsch and either sit-com them on the laugh track or shoot it full of holes like real men. There is … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged dorothy wahlstrom, Gustave Courbet, howard lee oransky, jerome witkin, Martin Buber, marty kalb, modern american art, sherry chayat, Viktor Frankl | Leave a comment

seventh seal : sitting out the last dance

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Dave

A dog-tired knight on his return journey from the Crusades travels through a country plagued by the plague where he meets, in a literal sense, death himself. Not death warmed over, but death. Unambiguous death in black and white. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged August Strindberg, bill sala, Charles Baudelaire, Franz Kafka, Hans Holbein, Ingmar Bergman, Martin Buber, Max von Sydow, The Seventh Seal, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

Facing up: masked to uncover the other

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Dave

Maybe Levinas was just yelling into the canyon, hearing his echo, catching the attention of a few gophers going about their business in the void. However, the implications of what he was expressing was quite profound, nothing less than a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Diane Arbus, Diego Velazquez, doon arbus, emmanuel levinas, Gustave Courbet, Jean Paul Sartre, joel-peter witkin, Martin Buber, Marvin Israel, Nicolas Poussin, patricia bosworth, Simone Weil, william todd schultz | Leave a comment

coke: the it and id of it all

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Dave

Pure nothingness.The embracing of empty contradictions. The fraternization of impossibilities. The essence of nothingness.Kitsch. It comes from a German word, or even perhaps Yiddish, to denote bad taste. In inexhaustible supply of cheap images to pacify the longings of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andre Breton, Andy Warhol, billy wilder coca cola, herbert leupin, jacques-Alain Miller, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Duchamp, marie-therese walter, Marquis de Sade, Martin Buber, Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

new vision of visions: the inner need

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Dave

What is meant by spiritual experience? Not evident in the era of post-modernism, Chris Hitchens, and the dubious pursuit of art as a spiritual experience. Still, there is a necessity to avoid standardization and leave an artistic scar so to … Continue reading →