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nihilism : brave new world
Seduced. The abolition of logic and its replacement by spontaneity. The will to nothing. No permit requited. The strange guest, nihilism, at the door. Somehow the grain of the new, a weird perversion of creationism which combines the anxiety of … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Atheism, David Brooks, David Hume, Donald Kuspit, h.p. lovecraft, Hannah Arendt, Heath Ledger, Jeremy Bentham, Michel Houellebecq, Nietzsche, nihilism, Pablo Picasso, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, willem de Kooning, william lane craig
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SANTA CLAUS EXCHANGE THEORY: No to Ho! Will The Circle be Unbroken?
Sexist Christmas advertising,and other rituals of discontent. why should Christmas be any different than the rest of the year? There is no holiday that seems to invoke the polarity and contradictory impulses that pits theological purity and the reality of … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Betty Friedan, C.S. Lewis, Chloe Angyal, Dean Martin, Derrida, Dr. Devin Brown, Frank Loesser, Havelock Ellis, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Jean Genet, John Bingham, Judith Butler, Kate Harding, La Senza Cup Size Choir, Lena McQuade, Leslie Feinberg, Marie Bonaparte, Maya Brown, Nietzsche, Niki de Saint Phalle, Sigmund Freud, Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf
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MARCUSE : POURING SALT ONTO SACCHARINE NOTIONS
Some people call a lie told for a great and good purpose a “noble lie.” Our government engages in a noble lie, according to these people, when it lies to us for our own good. Let us suppose, for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Bloom, Ayn Rand, Charles Reitz, Claes Oldenburg, Dan Graham, Frederick Engels, Freud, George Walsh, Hegel, Hegel Philosopher, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Kathe Kollwitz, Kropotkin, Leo Strauss, Marcel Proust, Marie-Louise Ekman, Martin Heidegger, Marx and Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, Nietzsche, Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Sigmund Freud, Tod Browning, Tod Browning Freaks 1932, Vilgot Sjoman, Wilhelm Reich
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SERIOUS MEN
”Receive with simplicity all that happens to you”, or so Rashi, the Jewish mystic sage is alleged to have uttered.It appeared in the opening scene of the film A Serious Man.To which must be addeda Korean student is asking to … Continue reading
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Tagged A Serious Man, Arthur Schopenhauer, Bach, Coen Brothers, Death In Venice, Eyes Wide Shut, Franz Werfel, Jack Abramoff, Jefferson Airplane, Luchino Visconti, Michael Stuhlberg, Nietzsche, Rashi, Richard Wagner, Stanley Kubrick, Thomas Mann, Verdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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BEFORE THE LAW WITH GHOSTS ON TRIAL
The outbreak of the French Revolution, and the Reign of Terror, made reforming ideas suspect among the English governing class. Jeremy Bentham allowed his time and energy to be dispersed among a number of different projects. Among them was one … Continue reading
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Tagged Before The Law, David Mairowitz, Edwin Muir, Etienne Dumont, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Orwell, Jacques Derrida, Jeremy Bentham, Kafka The Castle, Kirchberger, Nietzsche, Project Mayhem, Robert Crumb, The Trial, Willa Muir
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REQUIEM FOR A GENIUS
”Form is essential to art in that it mediates content. Form is the artifacts coherence, however self antagonistic and refracted, through which every successful work separates itself from the merely existing. …what can rightly be called form in artworks fulfills … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Alice Miller, Arthur Schuring, Constanze Weber, Eduard Ender, Edward Gibbon, Gibbon, Goethe, Heribert Rau, Leonard Cohen, Martin van Meytens, Mozart, Nietzsche, Sacheverell Sitwell, Saveria Dalla Rosa, Schiedermair, Theodor Adorno, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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