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little boots: tiny steps of transcendence
A dredging of the sediment. Intriguing relational experiences from a remote and obscure past, one not easily discerned, and only mistily intangible. Do we find ourself in the song so that it represents ourself ?…. I remember all the things … Continue reading →
narratives of the nameless: remember to forget
Constantly changing traditions and a constantly changing confrontation and relationship with death. Does remembrance amount to a merely symbolic gesture of observing a few moments silence,laying a wreath at these tombs of the nameless, which is actually a kind of … Continue reading →
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Tagged arlington national cemetery, armistice day, Bill Clinton, call of duty video game, Charles Baudelaire, Howard Zinn, Jacques Derrida, Joe Rosenthal, kathleen hall jameson, Marcel Proust, Max Horkheimer, Paul Klee, raymond barglow, remembrance day, Ronald Reagan, ronald reagan veterans day, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin, walter benjamin angel of history
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take off your slippers: only the nice die young
and so it is it really possible to effectuate a meaningful change in the organization of society? A fulfillment of the Isiah prophecy of relations between the spirit without the intermediary of material considerations.Can we as infants, at least aspire … Continue reading →
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Tagged Amy Goodman, baquiat, Bell Hooks, Bill Moyers, Bruce Springsteen, cornel west, George Grosz, Grace Lee Boggs, jean michel basquiat, john dewey, leo durocher, Martin Buber, Mitt Romney, occupy wall street, raymond barglow, Walter Benjamin, Z communications Michael Albert
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angels: flying against the current of progress
Angels of history. When Benozzo Gozzoli painted a rapt band of angels in 1459, he, without hesitation, gave them softly undulant robes, splendid wings, and the further support of rainbow clouds. Obviously, Gozzoli, had likely never seen an angel himself. … Continue reading →
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Tagged angelus novus, Benozzo Gozzoli, Caravaggio, Charles Baudelaire, dennis redmond, Gershom Scholem, Ghirlandaio, henry giroux, Paul Klee, Peter Paul Rubens, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, raymond barglow, Walter Benjamin, walter benjamin angel of history, Winged Victory
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an angel laughing through tears
Is the concept of progress a cruel illusion? Is progress a storm, getting pushed into the future into which our back is turned?. Do angels work without a script intuitively connected to the screenwriter on high. Angels have represented a … Continue reading →
finger pointing: myths of progress
The Judeo-Chrsitian tradition of redemption, as a worthwhile pursuit, and the complementary concept of utopia is centrally linked to the idea of progress.But is this progress, and all it entails with the pursuit of knowledge merely a pseudo progress, a … Continue reading →
sweet black angels of history
Aldous Huxley spoke of a utopianism as we evolved into a type of post-human; our immutable human nature changing as the genetic re-write and reproductive revolution matures heralding an closure on the Darwin era. In the meanwhile, history has shown … Continue reading →
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Carl von Clausewitz, daniel pick, Francisco Goya, John Keegan, Marquis de Sade, martin van creveld, Max Beckmann, Michel Foucault, Otto Dix, raymond barglow, restrepo film, Reza Deghati, tim hetherington, Walter Benjamin
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gotta serve somebody
However different the society’s they pictured, both Otto Dix and Toulouse Lautrec represented a society in which the proletariat underclass or the under-underclass served the bourgeois upper echelons. And, war and sex, in the sense of romantic realism were seen … Continue reading →
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