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Tag Archives: Milena Jesenska
hunger: pangs of freedom
The hunger for pure immanence. Or when the blending of realism and idealism becomes a kind of performance art, a “shock of the new” to use the Dadaist phrase, a disruptive force that effectuates art through the banal “ready-made” activity … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Baudelaire, David Blaine, Franz Kafka, Gandhi fasting, gilad shalit, Giovanni Succi, Hana Shalbi, Khader Adnan, lotte lenya, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Milena Jesenska, Robert Crumb, Shalit deal, Sharman Apt Russell, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin
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above the law: shadows of angels
Germany using Israeli lawyers to help “repatriate” Kafka manuscripts and literary legacy back to Germany. Keeping the works under lock and key, like incarcerated hostages out of Jozef Fritzl. It should burnish the national brand, used as export propaganda for … Continue reading
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Tagged arnold zweig, Daniel Schmid, David Zane Mairowitz, Franz Kafka, Gershom Scholem, Gottfried Helnwein, Hannah Arendt, hans fricke, isaac babel, Judith Butler, justin vicari, kafka manuscripts, louis begley, Milena Jesenska, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Robert Crumb
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brothers in arms: miles from nowhere
Ironic. Kafka’s writing was centered around the concept of non-belonging and by extension, about belonging too much. Almost an adversarial relationship with Maimonides golden mean, the elusive middle. Better to poke emotional catastrophe in the groin and hear he roar … Continue reading
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Tagged Caravaggio, David Mairowitz, felice bauer, Franz Kafka, George Steiner, Gilles Deleuze, Hannah Arendt, John Updike, Judith Butler, Marc Chagall, Max Brod, Milena Jesenska, Robert Crumb, Sander L. Gilman, Walter Benjamin
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the trial and error: happily ever thereafter
No happily ever after. Franz Kafka. He was mostly about failure. Or the inability to avoid it. Most everything was unfathomable, incomprehensive, unknowable, and there were no happy endings.Buggy and as neurotic as they come, Kafka represents that grey zone, … Continue reading
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