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hindsight is anything: expect the unexpected
There are some movements that are strange, unpredictable, and even when they surge into social dominance, not easy to explain; events outside the conventional thinking that hunts causes, reduces chance to a minimum, and loves plotting the tides that sweep … Continue reading
fat chance & new jerusalem: the equity of pessimism
And the meek shall inherit the debt. Is there an ethical emphasis to economics? Rick Salutin: So here are some Christmas presents from the Judeo-Christian tradition that I hope will find favour with deniers and those who just don’t care … Continue reading
havel : changing horses in mid-stream
A mixed legacy that seemed to be heartily leveraged to the idea of repression and suffering as a source for sublime aesthetics. A pretext for the literary creation formed by the ravages of the totalitarian state. To many it was … Continue reading
coz andy warhol sez
Are free market solutions the answer to public policy problems? A very divisive question to be sure. Much appears to depend on the degree of income disparity society is willing to tolerate, the level of corporate welfare taxpayers are willing … Continue reading
ordinary protektion
Accommodation and resistance. A cynical adaptation blending to outright futile rebellion. It is said to be a peculiar triangle, the one formed between Munich, Prague and Vienna, the one responsible for among others, Kafka, Freud and Hitler and the late … Continue reading
Havel enough
There has been a lot of ink spilled for Vaclav Havel, most all of it favorable. He was deeply Western; acculturated to rock music and American culture in general, and a willing actor to boot communism into the dust-bin, greatly … Continue reading
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the poet as positional good
The ideology of dissent as dominant motif for post-modernism…An excerpt from a piece by Slavoj Zizek on the John Keane biography of Vaclav Havel. A kind or ironic situation which seems to be of recurring consistency in that the inherent … Continue reading
left-write-left-right….
Take this bohemian artist, an icon of the counter-culture from the top shelf of the Czech Republic’s pre-communist era and you can concoct a recipe for bourgeois decadence and the commodification of dissent. Havel was almost the tailor made candidate … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Potter, frank zappa vaclav havel, joseph heath rebel sell, lou reed vaclav havel, Martin Heidegger, Max Horkheimer, Milos Forman, plastic people of the universe, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor Adorno, theodor pistek, thomas frank the baffler, vaclav havel
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havel: transcending extinction
Transcendence as the only viable alternative to extinction.Transcendence being, ultimately, the dismantlement of the nation state system, a one world new world order. Vaclav Havel is a mixed legacy that is praised by neo-liberal market based advocates and unredeemable by … Continue reading
a grid of paradoxes
The Middle Way. To find the way through the enigma of the middle way. Vaclav Havel was beset by various interpretations of the middle course of action; between the Maimonides view and the older Aristotlean. To be stuck between the … Continue reading
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