Tag Archives: Raul Hilberg

the trouble with normal: beware the ordinary

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Dave

How are we to explain the behavior of the perpetrators of murder? Often, the factual record is not in doubt, but the historical and moral implications remain at best, ambiguous. It is obvious that our own society and our mass … Continue reading →

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shiny happy people

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Dave

How can some people completely transform their identity? In a rather peculiar case, former tween neo-nazi pop divas transformed themselves into liberal advocates for cultural diversity and marijuana smoking. They had previously been controversial with their rock band called Prussian … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged daniel goldhagen, Franz Kafka, Hannah Arendt, lamb and lynx gaede, Max Brod, Noam Chomsky, Philip Zimbardo, Prussian Blue, Raul Hilberg, saif al-islam gaddafi, Stanley Milgram, ted morton alberta | Leave a comment

circus: can they jump through flaming hoops?

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Dave

This is an excerpt from an interview with Chomsky in March of this year. Puts something of a broader context into the current trial of the Mubarak regime, specifically his immediate entourage. There seems to be something of the truth … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt, mubarak trial, Noam Chomsky, Raul Hilberg | Leave a comment

Ain’t Misbehavin’

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Dave

What is the nature of evil? That eternal question is being asked again as what appears to be a long, tedious and even farcical trial of the Mubarak clan unfolds. The totalitarian structure recalls Arendt’s coverage of the Eichmann trial … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt, mubarak trial, patrick martin, Philip Zimbardo, Raul Hilberg, Stanley Milgram, thomas l. friedman | Leave a comment

from a position of privilege

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Dave

This was a rather particular photo album, brought to public attention in June of this year. The mystery was solved. It was the work of Franz Krieger and was owned by someone in the fashion industry who needed money to … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged david irving, franz krieger, harriet scharnberg, mark pitzke, Marlene Dietrich, miklos horthy, Raul Hilberg, Steven Spielberg, Susan Sontag, susan sontag fascism | Leave a comment

memory and remembrance: disrupting comfortable convention

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Dave

Artist Steve Reich and his recording label Nonesuch have been raked over the proverbial coals this past week since previewing artwork for Reich’s WTC 9/11 recording by the Kronos Quartet. It depicts the second plane going into WTC based on … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, beate passow, blalla w. hallmann, boris lurie, Donald Kuspit, Hans Haacke, masatomo kuriya, Raul Hilberg, richard kazis, sam goodman, sam goodman sculpture, Steve Reich, Walter Benjamin | 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

boris lurie: distrubing the ceremony

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Dave

How was holocaust themed art received in the “land of the perpetrators”? Well, For over two decades everyone tried to forget. It was a cultural amnesia and the path of least resistance. Make money. Raise your family. And don’t go … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged beatre klarsfeld, bernhard vesper, boris lurie, eike geisel, ernst nolte, fassbinder veronika voss, gunnar reski, hanna hoch, Hannah Arendt, harald fricke, John Heartfield, lea rosh, manfred zach, Orson Welles, Raul Hilberg, sam goodman, stanley fisher, Werner Fassbinder | Leave a comment

napoleon: grand alliance of a different kind

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Dave

The greatest movie never made. That’s actually the title of a new book of images from Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon, or rather the director’s preparations for an ill-fated film on the French emperor. The three hour epic about the life of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alex godfrey, Alison Castle, Chateaubriand, Chris Knight National Post, felix markham, francois pascal simon gerard, Jacques Necker, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Mme Germaine de Stael, Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte, prince augustus of prussia, Raul Hilberg, Rene Chateaubriand, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg | Leave a comment

decoys of perception: poetry after …..

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Dave

Could poetry be written after Auschwitz? Theodor Adorno’s famous assertion did not necessarily mean that no poetry could be created about the holocaust. Its a touchy grey zone; a metaphorical voyage of the damned where like Odysseus you tie yourself … Continue reading →