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Tag Archives: Soren Kierkegaard
faking the real: postures in palestine
A modern aesthetic rebellion against bourgeois existence. Its an ambiguous rhetoric, an in-between, between aesthetic and political radicalism that never commits to either; like the British promising the same dunams of land to jew and arab. As protest, it is … Continue reading
down by the river: it ain’t necessarily so
A space with which the undead can talk without moral constraint. Its a de-mythologizing of what is known as Judeo-Christian thought. Mostly disenchanted and without trust in the Covenant nor faith, slightly minimalist and with nihilistic overtones: fatalistic romanticism trampling … Continue reading
boredom: waiting for something to happen
and so it is so Modern boredom. Deep-seated boredom. The suspension of relations with reality and its replacement mined from the depths of the netherworld splitting into variations of nothingness; a world without meaning, without autonomy and without larger connections … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged austin warren, Charles Baudelaire, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Kafka, Heinrich Heine, irving babbitt, Jean Renoir, joel-peter witkin, John Everett Millais, Lucian Freud, Marcel Proust, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, Milan Kundera, Pierre Auguste Renoir, ralph greenson, Samuel Beckett, Soren Kierkegaard
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televise it: we’re all actors in this
The Revolution will continue after this short commercial break from our sponsors… At one time it would have been hard to imagine that “authenticity” could be used to sell almost any product or service. The ingenuity of the American marketing … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged angela davis, Bell Hooks, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gil Scott-Heron, helen jackson lee, imani perry, Jean Baudrillard, joseph heath, Ken Kesey, mark anthony neal, norman kelley, public enemy, Ronald Reagan, sharon patricia holland, Soren Kierkegaard, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler
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finding your flow: conquering your fear
Guest blog from Tai Carmen of Parallax: Exploring the architecture of human perception. We all know what joy feels like. It feels good. By the same token, we all know the visceral grip of fear, anxiety and dread. The search … Continue reading
REAL MAD, SOMEWHAT BAD & A LOT OF KITSCH
Henry Fuseli’s ghostly and frightening subject-matter was a visual continuum of the Gothic novel, which developed an aesthetics of terror and horror, was occupied with dreams and the unconscious, and often looked back to the feudal world. Fuseli once said, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alfred de Musset, Anne-Louis Girodet, Bellenger, Charles Nodier, Donald Kuspit, Donizetti, E.H. Gombrich, Erich Fromm, Ernst Gombrich, Etienne-Jean Georget, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Friedrich Holderlin, Gérard de Nerval, Henry Fuseli, Horace Walpole, Jacques-Louis David, John Milton, John Ruskin, Louis Sass, Marquis de Sade, Michel Foucault, Nikolaus Lenau, Rembrandt, Robert Schumann, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Simon Schama, Soren Kierkegaard, Suzi Gablik, Theodore Gericault, Thomas De Quincey, Victor Hugo, William Blake
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YOUNG MOZART AND FATHER KNOWS BEST
The ecstatic principle of life itself . At least this is how Soren Kierkegaard saw Mozart. ” I am in love with Mozart like a young girl, Kierkegaard confessed in ”Either/Or”. ”Immortal Mozart I owe you everything; it is thanks … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Amadeus, E.T.A. Hoffman, Haydn, Leopold Mozart, Michael jackson, Mozart, Paul Zoffany, Peter Shaffer, Schachtner, Schlichtegroll, Soren Kierkegaard, Topazbean, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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