Tag Archives: Max Horkheimer

just one in every crowd?

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Dave

It’s tough to kick the habit. The old reflexes; centuries of old European anti-Jewish prejudice: stereotypes of Jewish control of government, international conspiracy, the media, international trade and the entire money and banking apparatus. The old attacks now mingling with … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Barack Obama 2012, Friedrich Nietzsche, Maimonides, Maimonides Treatise on Logic, Max Horkheimer, MD Rabbi Alam, Meir Dagan Mossad, Menahem Kahana, Theodor Adorno, Willy Brandt Warsaw Ghetto | 1 Comment

rate fetish: the price is right

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Dave

…Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes part of the ceremony. Kafka, Parables and … Continue reading →

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foiled hopes

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Dave

The Enlighenment. The Age of the Enlightenment. The name of an age, the eighteenth century all across Europe and the colonies in the New World and the name of a movement that pervaded and came to dominate that age: a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged David Hume, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Lacan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Peter Howson, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Slavoj Zizek, Sokari Douglas Camp, The marquis de Sade, Theodor Adorno, Voltaire, Wieland Schonied | Leave a comment

enlightenment by design: build a better world?

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Dave

The Enlightenment. This is our tradition. Our world view. The liberal, rational, humanitarian way of thought that have persisted since Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, the French Revolution and had earlier seeds in the likes of Spinoza, among others. It … Continue reading →

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the banality of engagement: blame the victims

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Dave

There is something about Hannah. For some reason Hannah Arendt has been a post-modern magnet for for ant-Jewism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Israel sentiments all nicely couched in the language of human rights, respect, and all manner of motherhood statements that masks … Continue reading →

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hanging by a thread

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Dave

Max Beckmann studied medieval German art, the triptychs, loaded with gory, violent scenes of Christian martyrdom, at its most inglorious and vulgar incarnations of the human grotesque. In his modern condition, the contradictions of Weimar, there is none of the … Continue reading →

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the new seekers

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Dave

Aldous Huxley is to the negative or anti-utopia what Plato and Sir Thomas More combined are to the positive. We are apt to be less familiar with the Republic’s guardians and Utopia’s jeweled toys than we are with Brave New … Continue reading →

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pouring salt on the dream: land of wine and roses

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Dave

Radical Jewish culture. It seems to be the natural habitat of the near geniuses, the brilliant, the firebrands, the authentic rebels and the general shit disturbers motivated by a profound conviction. Come to think of it, Zionism has and will … Continue reading →

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burn baby burn

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Dave

They’ll sweep out the ashes in the morning. Hard to believe this news story; but it does invoke a number of themes. One may be there susceptibility to religious propaganda, and it actually gives credence to shit disturbers and rabble … Continue reading →

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taking back the keys to now time

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Dave

To break the pattern of everything continuing as usual. This kind of eternal catastrophe characterized by a boundless domination of the mythical subsuming and devouring everything in its path. Its the Kafka problematic where the fall, original sin is ingeniously … Continue reading →