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Tag Archives: Susan Sontag
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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
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a little face to face
Is it possible to be so politically correct that we end up chewing our own tail. Is there a realm within the politically correct that is not politically correct? Its been said that as long as there exists the dynamic … Continue reading
utopia : bauhaus uber alles?
The Bauhaus as the end of art as a humanizing activity. Not even the marker of Benjamin’s messianic nihilism. Just the nihilism of barbarous anonymity. A lifeless black hole. Maybe, ultimately, Bauhaus is so anti-kitsch it is kitsch. Is the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged ernst neufert, herbert bayer, joost schmidt, kamprad ikea, Le Corbusier, ludwig karl hilberseimer, Martin Heidegger, Mies van der Rohe, oskar schlemmer, otti berger, peter keler bauhaus, Slavoj Zizek, Susan Sontag, Theodore Dalrymple, tom sachs artist, Tom Wolfe, Walter Benjamin, Walter Gropius
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fold up the tent: patriots with bonds in their pockets
…As the U.S. miltary officially leaves Iraq, much of us are still puzzled by the phenomenon of this conflict which pits the social, the psychological and the economic in contradictory positions vis. a vis. conventional thinking. Can the conflict be … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged alex pareene, Andre Breton, Carl von Clausewitz, Chris Hitchens, christopher caudwell, David Frum, david turnley photography, Erich Maria Rilke, Jean Renoir, La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir, martin van creveld, Reza Deghati, Sam Huntington, Slavoj Zizek, steven metz, Susan Sontag, Thorstein Veblen, XTC Colin Moulding
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spirit of the forbidden
The unvarnished truth. Banal attractiveness sauntering into the realm of tedious familiarity? Bourgeois effrontery through others as a form of marketable cliche? Diane Arbus remains somewhat of a mystery. There is a contrast here, marked, between a Helen Levitt, Cartier-Bresson … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Diane Arbus, Franz Kafka, Helen Levitt photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Marcel Duchamp, Marvin Israel, Nicole Kidman, patricia bosworth, Susan Sontag, Tod Browning Freaks 1932, william todd schultz
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ragpickers: rag mama rag
Giving significance to the insignificant. Applying ego to the inanimate object, devoid of ego, and conferring a centrality of the marginal and unwanted, the value of debris and discard. The hand-me-down and down and down. A profane illumination in the … Continue reading
i-surrealism: mad mac
It is a new nature, a new Spinozian episode that re-designates an entire material world of objects, which includes the individual in bone and flesh, both determined and transformed by technology. So, there is no significant or gaping difference between … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged alan randolph, Bill gates, Bruno Schulz, drazen grubisic, james newman, Jonathan McIntosh, joseph heath, Leah McLaren, Max Horkheimer, olinka vistica, ray ceasar, Rosalind Krauss, Steve Jobs, steve jobs death, susan buck-morss, Susan Sontag, the arcades project, Theodor Adorno, Thorstein Veblen, Walter Benjamin
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alchemy and attics: even nice trash finishes last
Arousing the liveliest regret in the dreamer…. The scrap heap of history. The trash heap of history.Discarded and abandoned objects on the pile of the dustheap. Shipwrecked artifacts left to ebb and flow. So, what does ecology, the green movement … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Uncategorized
Tagged Carl Jung, ernst haeckel, ernst haekl, fred herzog photography, Gustav Landauer, harry joy photography, Helen Levitt, Jerry Garcia, Leni Riefenstahl, leo durocher, Luchino Visconti, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, Robert Hunter, Susan Sontag, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin
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descent worries and anxiety: “easy delight”
I came across a biography of Maria Landrock who was a celebrity star during the Third Reich. It does force one to look at the role of popular entertainment within its context as part of the entertainment industry pushed to … Continue reading