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hannah and her whispers
A relationship of power and violence and how they are inversely proportional. Or so said Hannah Arendt which could well constitute a pillar in her own inversely proportional posthumous power and the violence that has fed on her words thorugh … Continue reading
argo: the boatmen cometh
Excerpts from an article by John Pilger, far lefty analysis that raises some good issues, but more meaningfully, the template he reports on is not a new phenomenon but an alliance between Hollywood as entertainment complex putting the good face … Continue reading
houses of the holies: global idol
Idol worship; its always been the bane of monotheism and the source of a persistent if seemingly losing conflict. The issue always arises, or placed at the cross-hairs, particularly this year with the movement for a moment of silence for … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Berlin Olympics 1936, Israel Olympic Committee, Josephus the Jewish War, Leni Riefenstahl, London Olympic Mascots, London Olympics 2012, Maimonides guide for the perplexed, Peter Paul Rubens, Pole dancing, Pole dancing olympics sport, Robert Boyle author, Tim Trautman
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mythologizing camera
Compared to Norman Rockwell for depicting a slice of life Americana, but the comparison is a but unjust; Ozzie Sweet’s work lacks that element of American disavowal and the subtle and hidden eroticism found in much of Rockwell’s illustration. From … Continue reading
return to sender
Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) On April 20, 1889, Adolf Hitler was born. It was also the last day Hitler would appear outside of his bunker in Berlin—he would be dead 10 days later—in 1945. … Continue reading
the jazz swingers
African masks. The surrealists and the fetish for the African mask. The Man Ray photographs, the Demoiselles D’Avignon of Picasso in which cubsim collapsed the figurative. The African iconography and jazz was a metaphor for the exotic and a key … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged alexander mitscherlich, Arnold Schoenberg, Bell Hooks Outlaw Culture, Django Reinhardt, german swing youth, itzhak perlman, Jean Paul Sartre, Joseph Goebbels, Leni Riefenstahl, Lindy Hop, Marcel Duchamp, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, stephane grappelli, Theodor Adorno
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reality: it ain’t necessarily so
At issue is whether meaning is an objective reality as opposed to an elaborated form of plain vanilla illusion arising from perception and dressed to the nines or is meaning a subjective reality, a fluid boundary shifter that reflects that … Continue reading
obey
Obey. If you put them in a line, will they just keep going? Are they brought up that way? Obedience. The question might not be centered around perverse pleasures and sadism, but of placing oneself in view of the all … Continue reading
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Tagged alexander mitscherlich, Alice Miller, anselm kiefer, emmanuel levinas, georg baselitz, Gunter grass, helmut middendorf, janka, Leni Riefenstahl, markus lupertz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, rebecca horn, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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