Tag Archives: Michel Foucault

genet: love comes in spurts

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Dave

.Masks. Mirrors. Symbols. Rituals, dreams and trances… Jean Genet’s The Blacks is constructed of two simultaneous plays within the play, one performed on stage, the other out in the wings. When the lights come up, several couples are discovered turning … Continue reading →

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dislocation : journals of the anti-saint

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Dave

Disturbing. Jean Genet is Downright terrifying. A dark star. A solitude and shimmering of a black star. …Outside select literary circles, Genet is today an almost-forgotten writer, so it’s probably appropriate not only to consider the “last Genet,” but also … Continue reading →

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case of mistaken identity: but not in my backyard

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Dave

Mistaken identity and false pretense. Mistaken identity has always been the source for arriving at some rich existential meanings.But, behind fervent religious belief, is it the will to meaning in the sense of Victor Frankl, or some twisted ideology arising … Continue reading →

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wayfaring women: the prodigal daughters

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Dave

Most conflicts seem very complex; the origins are rooted so deep in time that resolution is akin to staring into an abyss and engaging in a dialogue with something vague and furtive staring back: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bill Moyers, bosch the haywain, david l. chapman, fatma kassem, Grace Lee Boggs, jacqueline kennedy, john collier painting, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Michel Foucault, nahlo abdo, newprofile.org, patricia vertinsky, rela mazali, venus with biceps | Leave a comment

greetings on this day

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Dave

A remnant people trying to tailor a fine suit out of rags. The solitary wanderer in his brand name estate. The concept of Judaism rests as an affirmation of the Diaspora and a rejection, in principle of Zionism, which can … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged a.m. klein, Arthur Ruppin, benny morris, Edward Said, ephraim kishon, franz fanon, Jean Paul Sartre, lev grinberg, Max Horkheimer, maya benton, meir kahane, menachem kahana, Michael Greenstein, Michel Foucault, noah efron, noah j. efron, rafael falk, roman vishniak, ronit lentin, stalags documentary, Walter Benjamin, yakov m. rabkin | Leave a comment

the right must leave: no dawdling. no loitering.

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Dave

State of exception. Land of confusion. It can be plausibly be asserted that Zionism has been intertwined in racial identity issues since its modern incarnation that began before Herzl. The hierarchy and pecking order, the old tropes of status and … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged a.d. gordon, a.m. klein, benny morris, Byron Childe Harolde, david frischman, David Lean, Edward Said, eugene fromentin, fatma kassen, Hieronymous Bosch, ilan pappe, lev grinberg, Martin Buber, meir margalit, Michael Greenstein, Michel Foucault, noah j. efron, noam chomsky middle east, omar sharif, peter o'toole, rafael falk, T.E. Lawrence, Tim Dirks, William Butler Yeats, yakov m. rabkin, Yeats Sailing to Byzantium | Leave a comment

getting no satisfaction: a hollow world going wrong

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Dave

Desire and Disillusion. That technical progress with its transformational capacity could finish by alienating the individual giving rise to consumerism fueled by invidious comparison and a spirit of competition which would appropriate Darwininian contexts to establish political, social and hegemonic … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Carl von Clausewitz, charles hinton, Clement Greenberg, D.W. Winnicott, darwinism, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, Henri Matisse, john dewey, joseph heath, Karl Marx, Martin Buber, Michel Foucault, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, picasso blue period, richard kazis, Sigmund Freud, Thorstein Veblen, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

shifting mainstream: a murky sideshow

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Dave

You have to wonder whether the current, almost virulent anti-Arab and Muslim invective in America and to some extent in Canada is not induced by a larger effort, principally using the media, in order to enact behavior modification through a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged anders behring breivik, anders breivik, Ayn Rand, Barry Blitt, david yerushalmi, Geert Wilders, Michel Foucault, michelle bachmann, Noam Chomsky, Pamela Geller, Paul Krugman, Rick Salutin, Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, sarah palin sharia law | Leave a comment

traces of wiped-out existences

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Dave

how is holocaust art received in the land “of the perpetrators”? Well that depends… In a way, its the politics of remembrance and memory.Or at least the problematics. Memory is often the theme with the focus not on what is … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged arthur c. canto, boris lurie, brett ashley kaplan, christian boltanski, ernst nolte, esther shalev-gerz, gunter demnig, harold marcuse, inge stephan, james e. young, jochen gerz, leah rosh, manfred zach, Michel Foucault, peter eisenman, Raul Hilberg, reinhard matz, Ronald Reagan, rudolf herz, Theodor Adorno | Leave a comment

circumstantial angels

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Dave

It was the art of circumstantial speech. Mixed with the art of underestimation, with some irritating asides thrown in for good measure. Well, Peter Falk did act funny. This uncanny ability to start talking in one direction and going off … Continue reading →