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Tag Archives: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
running on near empty
Do pessimists live longer on average? Perhaps. That is, if they can steer clear of fatalistic pessimism that shades into despair and oppression.Is optimism possible in the face of all this misery? And perhaps more importantly, even if there is … Continue reading
mercedes: 99 sagging luftballons
…This is one awful waste of millions of dollars that perfectly reflects the hype and hoopla of the Super Bowl and what it stands for: The market economy’s conspicuous waste. It reads like a surreal scene from a Rainer Fassbinder … Continue reading
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Tagged Callenac design, fassbinder veronika voss, Gabriele Susanne Kerner, Kate Upton, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mercedes Super Bowl Commercial, Nena 99 Red Balloons, Nina Hagen, Parents Television Council, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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tin drums: marching to a different beat
…Nobel laureate Günter Grass is expected to be released from a Hamburg hospital within days, after undergoing what his secretary called a routine test. Grass was admitted on Monday, less than two weeks after his poem criticising Israel triggered a … Continue reading
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Tagged Gunter grass, Gunter Grass israel, Gunter Grass The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass Zionism, Henryk M. Broder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marieluise Beck, MK David Rotem, MK Robert Ilatov, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Fassbinder, Zvi Rex psychoanalyst
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correctional devices
Truth at the margins. Playing with trauma and variations on holding the traumatic moment. There is an uneasy relationship with popular culture, kitsch, and an underlying current of fascism. As Adorno said, “The encouragement of kitsch is merely another of … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Charlie Chaplin, Clement Greenberg, edouard manet olympia, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, Ilya Repin, kazimierz switon, Pablo Picasso, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, saul friedlander, Susan Sontag, Theodor Adorno, Wagner Lohengrin, Walter Benjamin, zbigniew libera
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obey
Obey. If you put them in a line, will they just keep going? Are they brought up that way? Obedience. The question might not be centered around perverse pleasures and sadism, but of placing oneself in view of the all … Continue reading
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Tagged alexander mitscherlich, Alice Miller, anselm kiefer, emmanuel levinas, georg baselitz, Gunter grass, helmut middendorf, janka, Leni Riefenstahl, markus lupertz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, rebecca horn, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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ethics and idle fancy: in the attic
Kafka was as much about non-arrival at destinations as he was about non-belonging. In any event there are problems of destination and leaving, coming and going often resemble each other. But as Kafka seems to figure, the pull of Jews … Continue reading
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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