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Tag Archives: Umberto Eco
dark ages and rages and sages
A thousand years ago the “dark ages” were dark, but maybe not as dark as we imagine today. Certainly, our forebears themselves did not think so, and they were only half wrong… …In Latin, only a few love songs and … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Edward Gibbon, George Macaulay Trevelyan, Hatto I Archbishop of Mainz, Hrotswitha of Gandersheim, Hucbald monk of St.-Amand, jean fouquet, King Alfred ninth century, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Saint Dinstan famous organ, The Dark Ages, Umberto Eco
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cartoon messiah: a walt misery construction
…A struggle between the divine and the mythical, Jacob and the Angel as point of departure and building block for a political struggle that of necessity and consequence collides and challenges the established law. Since the beginning, there has always … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anarchism David Graeber, Ben Bernanke, Bob Dylan, Christopher Nolan, David Graeber, david graeber guardian, Max Horkheimer, Milton Glaser, Sigmund Freud, TD Canada Trust, TD Money Lounge, TD Money Lounge Canada, Theodor Adorno, Umberto Eco, Walter Nejamin, Wayne Gretzky
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dancing with phantoms
…ghost dance and cargo cult…In times of stress look for the prophets of an earthly paradise: Handsome Lake of Mohammed, Lenin or the Teacher of Righteousness. America is always ready willing and able for any millennial cult that presents itself… … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Cargo Cults, Chris Hedges, cornel west, Father Groppi, John Cage, Kenneth Knowlton, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Malcolm X Black Muslims, Martin Luther, Neil Krug, Noam Chomsky, Peter Zinovieff, Pontiac Indian Chief, Slavoj Zizek, Umberto Eco
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appeal of the kit-kat style
Its popular entertainment to attribute the unknown throughout history to secret societies, the esoteric forces and hints of sacred sexuality gone awry. From Umberto Eco’s Prague Cemetery, Dan Brown or even Schmuley Boteach and his blending of implied messianism with … Continue reading
clipped wing and a prayer
When spirituality, politics and money meet. Can faith have a relationship to power? Bizarre plots. Power struggles. Vatican City or Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose? Twelve months to live. Related to the sale of land parcels in the Occupied … Continue reading
the wanderer: trouble no more
The wandering jew. The white man’s burden has forced the heavy lifting onto the yid but the pop culture articulation of the concept is actually more profound and complex than its various manifestations would care to admit. Once man and … Continue reading
the golem: oy vay you say
Return of the golem. The problem is not creating these golem, its how to get rid of them. If you don’t kill them off quickly while there is still a bit of moisture left in the clay, they start adapting … Continue reading
smelly little orthodoxies
Probably the best piece yet on Hitchens since it places him within a wider context than the sniping and nitpicking that has been the norm on the left, or better yet the left-left,that endless recess of bourgeois values, the browned-out … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Bill Maher, Christopher Hitchens, Edward Said, George Orwell, George Woodcock, H.G. Wells, Hieronymous Bosch, jon stewart, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Simon Houpt, Susan Sontag, Umberto Eco
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8 1/2 disruptions of syntax
In Fellini’s 8 1/2 an intellectual laments that the director, Guido, has no central idea, no clear intellectual concept. An English journalist wedges in,”What do you think about the marriage of Marxism and Catholicism?” In 8 1/2 Fellini doesn’t just … Continue reading