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

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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

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The Gods in art-abandoning the kingdom of shadows

Andre Malraux: The greatest mystery is not that we should be tossed by chance amongst the profusion of matter and the welter of the stars; it is, rather, that within this prison we are able to draw from ourselves images … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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the state has no business in the bedrooms

of the nation’s  citizens, unless of course its to go bottom feeding for the lowest common denominator among first time voters. This is a new elan in presidential politics, but whatever the value it demonstrates how the institution of government … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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