Tag Archives: saul friedlander

the reacting meme

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Dave

Hitler is against SOPA.In a way its the normalization of Hitler that would have Saul Friedlander cringing, and perhaps Susan Sontag smiling at the camp of it all. It casts a light, or shadow back on the documentary The Corporation … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Bruno Ganz, GoDaddy boycott, hitler the downfall, justin beiber, katherine oyama, mark achbar, saul friedlander, sergey brin, Slavoj Zizek, SOPA, Stephen Colbert, stop online privacy act, Susan Sontag, The Hitler Meme | Leave a comment

correctional devices

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Dave

Truth at the margins. Playing with trauma and variations on holding the traumatic moment. There is an uneasy relationship with popular culture, kitsch, and an underlying current of fascism. As Adorno said, “The encouragement of kitsch is merely another of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Charlie Chaplin, Clement Greenberg, edouard manet olympia, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, Ilya Repin, kazimierz switon, Pablo Picasso, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, saul friedlander, Susan Sontag, Theodor Adorno, Wagner Lohengrin, Walter Benjamin, zbigniew libera | Leave a comment

redemption against a brick wall

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Dave

The representation of trauma. What are the limits, the intersection between the desire to understand and the voyeuristic gaze? The conjunction of political and popular culture can collapse the meaning of distance resulting in a moral strain and ambiguity where … Continue reading →