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Tag Archives: Michel Foucault
fanon: relegated to second class
Frantz Fanon. A prophet scorned… …When he had recovered, Fanon returned to Tunis and was appointed FLN ambassador to Accra. His job was to obtain arms and volunteers from Black African nations sympathetic to Algeria. He went at it with … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albert Camus, Battle of Algiers 1957, David Macey, FLN Algeria, FLN Zohra Drif, Frantz Fanon, franz fanon, Jacques Derrida, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michel Foucault, Robert Fulford, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin
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fanon: fanning the flames of renewal
Theory of violent revolution. Theory of an outsider? Fifty years after his death, Frantz Fanon still has an audience but he had a peculiar role as the scorned prophet…. … The government reply was not long in coming- in the … Continue reading
imaginary museum
…As the chief curator and guide of the Imaginary Museum, Andre Malraux recalled Toynbee and Spengler. For one thing, he shares their infatuation with the past, their conviction that it can speak to us, that stones have tongues. For another, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andre Malraux, Arnold Toynbee, Clara Malraux, Ernst Gombrich, Germaine Krull, Imaginary Museum Malraux, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Chevasson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michel Foucault, Oswald Spengler, stieg larsson
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humdinger jimmy: reckless pedestrian years
The beauty of being born again is that you get to wipe the slate clean. Its ingenious, very much in the spirit that de Toqueville described America on his visit early in the nineteenth-centiry as the land of constant personal … Continue reading
horror stories: cages of folles
It reads like something out of Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault. The traditional narrative history witnessed the nineteenth century medical treatment of what was considered madness or insanity as a kind of enlightened liberation of the mad from the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged bela lugosi, Charles Martel Poitiers, Col. David Hunt Fox, Douglas Brinkley, Douglas Brinkley Rolling Stone, Francois Alfred Delobbe, Generation Identity, Generation Identity youth group, glenn greenwald, henry scott tuke, Jean Francois Cope, Michael Lewis Obama's Way, Michel Foucault, Omar Shaaban Libya, Philipe Pinel, Walid Phares Fox, Wolfman Jack
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when that day arrives
The end of days. The messianic era. There is a degree of excitement, or urgency of the uplifting nature that revelation provides regarding the repairing of the world, its redemption and the long promised golden road of devotion and freedom. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Dan Bern Jerusalem, Debbie Schlussel, Diane Sawyer, Dr. Vendyl Jones, Gay International, Gershon Salomon, James Holmes, Janet Afary, Jesse Bering, Joseph Massad, Kevin Anderson, leiby kletzky, levi aron, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gays in Iran, Maimonides, Michel Foucault, MK Danny Danon, Noahide Laws, NYPD Raymond Kelly, Obeid e Zakani, Rabbi Chaim Richman, Syrian homosexuals, Wolf Blitzer
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take five with the marquise
Disrupted momentum. A plot, a narrative incident, a moment of the dramatic lending momentum to the whole: Precisely those elements mostly absent in our daily lives, replete as they are with what Walter Benjamin called “messy antics,” confused, shambling and … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Claude Mauriac, Durrel Alexandria Quartet, eugene atget, Francois Mauriac, Gabriel Josipovici, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Cartier-Bresson, James Joyce, James Joyce Ulysses, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Michel Foucault, Nathalie Sarraute, Paul Valery, Rene Magritte, T.S. Eliot, The Art of Noise, Walter Benjamin
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between five and six: cruising with the marquise
The Marquise Went Out at Five. Claude Mauriac put together a fine conception, worked out with a skill that few novelists have the patience or the delicacy to apply.This concept of time that knows neither past, present nor future and … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Andre Gide, Andre Malraux, Claude Mauriac, Francois Mauriac, Gilles Deleuze, Hans Bellmer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Michel Foucault, Nathalie Sarraute, Robert Pinget
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