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political porn: aggressive indifference
Political pornography flourishes only when the governed increasingly lose respect for the institutions of government. It is the people, the mass of people, who choose to tolerate or remain indifferent to political pornography. Societies, not governments, are responsible for political … Continue reading
politics and satire: pol porn
…Political pornography is far rarer in human history than political smut, and much more dangerous for the society in which it burgeons. Indeed, Louis XIV’s great rival, England, was already suffering from a mild outburst- one that took more than … Continue reading
STORYTELLERS IN THE FOREST: Making Peace With The Power Of Death
Freud said of folk tales that they contain “the dreams of the human race.” One of these dreams is about the simple good prevailing over the subtle wicked. Most of the stories that the Grimm brothers collected are lay moral … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lang, Brothers Grimm, Brueghel the Elder, Carpenter, E.B. Taylor, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Goethe, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack Zipes, Jacob Grimm, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Jacobs, Lisa Falzon, Marc Chagall, Nikolai Lesskow, Nin Harris, Norman Mailer, Paul Auster, Pieter Brueghel, Richard Wagner, Robert Darnton, Saul Bellow, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Benfey, Tom Davenport, Walter Benjamin, Wilhelm Grimm
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A LANGUAGE OF TRICKS & TREATS: Sea of Universal Myth
“A still further step can and must be taken, however, before we still have reached the bounds of the problem. Myth, as the psychoanalysts declare, is not a mess of errors; myth is a picture language. But the language has … Continue reading
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Tagged Amanda K. Coomaraswamy, Angela Carter, Brothers Grimm, Clemens Brentano, Dante Alighieri, Donald Haase, Emile Durkheim, Gustaf Tenggren, Jack Zipes, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Jacobs, Julius Krohn, Karl Verner, Katherina Viehmann, Kim Carpenter, Lisa Falzon, Ludwig Achim von Arnim, Nikolai Lesskow, Nin Harris, Robert Darnton, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Aquinas, Tom Davenport, Walter Benjamin
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INTO AN ENCHANTED FOREST: Shadowy & Conjectural Images
“So that by that time the Grimm brothers arrived to began their collection, much material had overlain the remote mythology of the early tribes. Tales from thee four quarters, inventions from every level of society and all stages of Western … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lang, Angela Carter, Arthur Rackham, Brothers Grimm, Clemens Bretano, Donald Haase, Edmund Dulac, Emile Durkheim, Frankfurt School, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Gustaf Tenggren, Jack Zipes, Jacob Grimm, Jane Yolen, Joseph Campbell, Kim Carpenter, Marianne Stokes, Max Muller, Nin Harris, Peter Webb, Philipp Grot johann, Robert Darnton, Robert Leinweber, Theodor Benfey, Walter Benjamin, Wilhelm Grimm
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POKING INTO DARK CORNERS:ILLEGAL & SALACIOUS
”Whether such pronouncement represented genuine alarm or rhetorical posturing is difficult to say, but the authorities certainly took slander seriously. On may 28, 1649, the Parlement of Paris tried to restore order in the capital by threatening to hang anyone … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Gedeon Lafitte, Comte de Bussey, French Revolution, George Cruickshank, James Gillray, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Marat, Marat, Marquis de Condorcet, Marquis de Sade, Robert Darnton, Roger de Rabutin, Sade, Voltaire
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