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Tag Archives: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
grey melancholia: looking for mourners
“Where one comes from?” The work of art invested with the pathos of melencholia.Fake tears? The failure of the West as a humanizing endeavor? Dreams of resurrection decomposing. The numbing greyness of the decaying corpse, the failed experiment of regeneration … Continue reading
fat chance: rooting for the longshot
Its the opposite of investment. Its the quick fix. The bottomless pit of desire that cannot be sated. The Janus face of capitalism, money and banking. Is the true aim of the gambler narcissistic and aggressive desires for attaining the … Continue reading
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Tagged Damon Runyan, edmund bergler, Edmund Burke, fred herzog photography, gambling economics, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, marx brothers at the races, Paul Newman, Paul Samuelson, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, rosel zech, Slavoj Zizek, thorsten brinkmann, Walter Benjamin
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the braun of a new age
Apple design and uncanny similarities with post-war design of Braun products. coincidence? Not at all and perfectly comprehensible. The marriage of Apple and Braun design is also uncannily like Werner Fassbinder’s post-war triology, in particular the Marriage of Maria Braun. … Continue reading
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Tagged apple design, Bertolt Brecht, dieter rams, dieter rams braun, fassbinder marriage of maria braun, jonathan ive, laurene powell, michael spindler apple, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Steve Jobs, steve kroft, walter isaacson
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genet’s existence and essence
Complexity of atmosphere and motive. Are morality and aesthetics mutually exclusive? In the case of Jean Genet, does eroticizing the victims, often his own lovers, wipe the slate clean, peeling away the layers of Judeo-Chrisitian morality? Jean Genet always put … Continue reading
genet: risk and the safety of ritual
If we were talking only of the prose such as Our Lady and Journal of the Flowers, it might perhaps be possible to sweep past Genet. These books are books of prismatic brilliance, containing scene after scene of bizarre or … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, bernard henri-levy, Bernard-Henry Levy, Edmund White, genet the balcony, hadrien laroche, hans koechler, Henry Miller, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, stan persky, William Burroughs
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ballad of a thin man with stogie
You, the owners of property are the truly brutish ones, runs the line of ironic implication; we slaves have remained human. Caught between what he expected and what he actually felt, the cultivated German spectator found hmself animated by chronic … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Bob Dylan, carl a. rossi, Donald Kuspit, Hannah Arendt, helene weigel, Jonathan Rosenbaum, lotte lenya, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, suze rotolo, The Frankfurt School, Walter Benjamin, Wassily Kandinsky
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New Order : elusive holy grail
Does fear eat the soul? Eventually Hitler’s Aryan myth, like many another, monstrously devoured both its creators and its supporters. It all began as a minor and unsolvable issue in comparative linguistics around the time of the French revolution. It … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruckner, Frederic Spotts, geoffrey wheatcroft, Gottfried Helnwein, hugo hoppener fidus, James Young, john galliano, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, rammstein, Salvador dali, Susan Sontag, sylvia plath, Walter Benjamin
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sign of the times: tainted logic
The Aryan myth began inconspicuously as a minor issue in comparative linguistics at the end of the eighteenth-century and then assumed a life of its own of disproportionate dimensions in the romantic age that morphed into a racial theory of … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Ziegler, Arno Breker, Edouard Manet, Fassbinder, Gustave Courbet, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Ivo Saliger, Joseph Thorak, Paul Cezanne, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sontag, Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin
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An Oscar for the “male gaze”
Since the first biblical patriarchs wandered out of Babylonia to the Egyptian Pharoahs and through the Greek theatre of Aristophanes to modern Hollywood, the male hero has been the center of the universe. Copernicus proved “man” was not the center … Continue reading
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Tagged Academy awards Oscars, Alfred Hitchcock, Allan G. Johnson, Anita Sarkeesian, Aristophanes, B.F. Skinner, Dorothy Arzner, Dustin Hoffman, Guy Debord, James Bond, Judith Mayne, Kaja Silverman, Katharine Hepburn, Laura Mulvey, Lee Wallace, Oscar Awards, Pablo Picasso, Quentin Tarantino, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rosalind Russell
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Dix & threepenny opera: an explicit body politic
The classic Bertolt Brecht question was an examination of the inconceivable; two forces in which it was not possible to reconcile: how can people be dignified and ethical under capitalism? The stock market as a Three-Penny Opera. The petty thieving, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, David Hare, Edwin Black, Fassbinder, Francis Galton, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jack Morgan, James Watson, John Carney, Kurt Weill, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Craig Blankfein, Matt Taibbi, Michel Foucault, Otto Dix, Pecora Commission, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Randy Newman, T.S. Eliot, Toulouse-Lautrec
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