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fanon: enjoying the duel
Frantz Fanon. The theorist of revolution and a prophet scorned. An angry Isiah preaching to the choir? … …The repetitions, ambiguities, and facile rhetoric that mar certain chapters of The Wretched of the Earth are due largely to the circumstances … Continue reading
fanon: attacking the high-minded
Frantz Fanon. The Prophet Scorned. Fifty years after his death, is this theorist of revolution still pertinent or are his writing a kind of surrealist fiction with himself as central protagonist? … …The final Fanonist influence concerns the search for … Continue reading
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Tagged Algeria FLN, Algerian Civil War, David Macey, Eldridge Cleaver, Fanon Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Fulford, Stokely Carmichael, Tahar Djaout, The Black Panther Party
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fanon: love thy neighbor but dispatch him first
Frantz Fanon and his theory of revolution. Fifty years on the Wretched of the Earth may aspire to be a guide to yuppies and hipsters of the perplexed variety… …Frantz Fanon wrote that the urban equivalent of the peasantry was … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, David Macey, Eldridge Cleaver, Fanon Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon, franz fanon, George Jackson Black Panthers, Hannah Arendt, Huey Newton, Jean Paul Sartre, Robert Fulford, The Black Panther Party, The Last Poets, Walter Benjamin
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fanon: stoking the flames of freedom
Frantz Fanon and the Wretched of the Earth. A prophet scorned. Fifty years after Frantz Fanon’s death, there is still an audience for this theorist of revolution. Question is, are the ideas relevant in an era of post-modernism?… …But prophets … Continue reading
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Tagged angela davis, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Fanon Wrtetched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon, franz fanon, Hannah Arendt, Huey Newton, Jean Genet, Jean Genet Black Panthers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Fulford, Slavoj Zizek, The Black Panther Movement
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fanon: violence as cleansing agent
…He returned to Tunis, and, knowing that the remission he enjoyed from leukemia might end at any time, he finished his last and most important book, The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon worked twenty hours a day, interrupting his writing … Continue reading
fanon: relegated to second class
Frantz Fanon. A prophet scorned… …When he had recovered, Fanon returned to Tunis and was appointed FLN ambassador to Accra. His job was to obtain arms and volunteers from Black African nations sympathetic to Algeria. He went at it with … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Battle of Algiers 1957, David Macey, FLN Algeria, FLN Zohra Drif, Frantz Fanon, franz fanon, Jacques Derrida, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michel Foucault, Robert Fulford, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin
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hemingway : the moveable lease
Much of it is about the troubling masculinity of post-war America. The sensitive issue of the inability to love. And its representation as non-aesthetic content. Yes, Hemingway is bigger than the sum of its parts. The Ernest Hemingway legacy has … Continue reading
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Tagged alice b. toklas hemingway, Allen Ginsberg, Bernard Williams philosopher, charles everett rowe, christopher hitchens hemingway, david m. earle, Ernest Hemingway, ezra pound hemingway, george plimpton hemingway, gertrude stein hemingway, hadley richardson, harry selby, Jack Kerouac, john raeburn, mary hemingway, max eastman hemingway, paula mclain the paris wife, robert capa hemingway, Robert Fulford, robert fulford national post, woody allen midnight in paris
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true grit and rough justice: wild west as arcades project
Charles Baudelaire incarnated, in his bohemian manner, the democratization of poetry. It was a new language that lacked an academic subtext; totally alien to he Academie Francaise to which he aspired. It was the language of the “flaneur” to which … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Art
Tagged Anita Sarkeesian, Charles Baudelaire, David Frum, Ethan Coen, Franz Hessel, Hailee Steinfeld, Janet Wolf, Jeff Bridges, Joel and Ethan Coen, Louise Brooks, Margarete Bohme, Otto Dix, Rebecca Keegan, Robert Fulford, Sigmund Freud, True Grit, Walter Benjamin
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$#*! That’s real real gone
Its not an ecstasy of death. Its brutal, factual, inescapable physical event devoid of sentiment, nostalgia, romance, and valor. It is the Triumph of Death; uncannily realistic and without myth, or sermon or ritual. To Otto Dix, death was not … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Phillips, Felix Nussbaum, Francisco Goya, Goya, Goya Maja, Leo Bersani, Marcel marceau, Mark Vallen, Otto Dix, Richard Poirier, Robert Fulford, T.S. Eliot, Ulysse Dutoit, Viktor Frankl
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Win one for the gipper: fetish for the gridiron
Win one for the Gipper. The advertising costs $3 million for a thirty second spot. Its deep in the red-zone of marketing. ….If Ronald Reagan as the Gipper was the symbol for a sport based on sportsmanship, morality and Christianity, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Roethlisberger, Groucho Marx, Guy Debord, Lukacs, Marx Brothers, Marx Brothers Horsefeathers, Pat O'Brien, Planters' bull-fighting almond, Ray Lewis, Richard Pipes, Robert Fulford, Ron Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan 100th Anniversary, Super Bowl 45
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