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Monthly Archives: November 2010
WEIMAR: “CREOLE LOVE CALL” on the Rhine
Everyone loves to throw around the Weimar metaphor, from pundit Glenn Beck to America’s anarchist in residence Noam Chomsky, and a contingent of microphone friendly snake oil salesmen in between…Crazy or sane, left or right, the analogies of fear mongering … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Schmitt, Conrad Felixmuller, Erhard Gopel, Eric D. Weitz, Ernst Junger, Franz Neumann, Frederik Taylor, Glenn Beck, Herbert von Reyl-Hanisch, James Fallows, James Fallows Guardian, Jankel Adler, Jeanne Mammen, John Maynard Keynes, Josephine Baker, Marcel Ronay, Martin Hutchinson, Max Beckmann, Noam Chomsky, Otto Dix, Paul Krugman, Sandy Levinson
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WEIMAR ARCADE: Shoot the Hypnotist First
Or is the hypnotist merely the decoy, the puppet of even greater evil? The Weimar resemblance? Its nervous, alienated, and often brilliant culture can seem uncomfortably like our own. But, is the sickness that killed the German Republic of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertram M. Gross, Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Ed Driscoll, Eric D. Weitz, Erich Maria Remarque, John Heartfield, Julien Benda, Kurt Weill, Marianne Faithfull, Max Beckmann, Max Ernst, Michael Brenner, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Dix, Peter Rex Valentine, Thomas Mann
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WEIMAR REPUBLIC and the UNCANNY “SECOND SIGHT”
“A member asked what was the ethos of German Expressionism, suggesting it was ‘cultural despair’. The speaker reiterated his title phrase: ‘an explosive cocktail of cultural despair and political instability’, adding that the German character seemed almost morbid in its … Continue reading
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Tagged Alma Mahler, Bauhaus Art, Bertolt Brecht, Carl Zuckermayer, Chris Hedges, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Emil Jannings, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Grosz, George J.W. Goodman, Heinrich Mann, Howard Buffet, James Turk, Josef Albers, Kurt Weill, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Louis Proyect, Lyonel Feininger, Marianne Faithfull, Marlene Dietrich, Max Beckmann, Noam Chomsky, Otto Dix, Paul Gough, Paul Klee, Peter Rex Valentine, Richard Nixon, Rosa Luxemburg, Seth Taylor, Walter Gropius, Warren Buffet, Wassily Kandinsky
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THE WEIMAR “LAST TRANCE” CABARET: Escaping to Feed Your Head
For Walter Benjamin, this was the real significance of the First World War, “an attempt at a new and unprecedented commingling with the cosmic powers.” He worried that mankind’s alienation from itself was deepening “to such a degree that it … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertholt Brecht, Bertolt Brecht, Carl Mayer, David Weigel, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Grosz, Glenn Beck, Hans Janowitz, Herman Hesse, John Wonder, Kurt Weill, Lovis Corinth, Marianne Faithfull, Max Beckmann, Mike Huckabee, Otto Dix, Peter Rex Valentine, Robert Whealy, Robert Wiene, Sen. Jim DeMint, Steven Ozmet, Walter Benjamin, Weimar Republic
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SLEEPWALKING IN WEIMAR: Hypnosis in the Asylum
Quoting Hesse’s Steppenwolf -‘Human life is reduced to hell only when two ages two cultures overlap. Now there are times when a whole generation is caught between two ages with a consequence it looses all power to understand itself and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alban Berg, August Strindberg, Carl Mayer, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Franz Kafka, Franz Werfel, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Grosz, Gottfried-Benn, Hans Janowitz, Herman Hesse, Otto Dix, Peter Rex Valentine, Robert Weine, Robert Wiene, Seth Taylor, Walter Benjamin
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GRINGO DOGS: Pay Dearly for My Beautiful Muchacha
There are no lack of visitors to Cuba from rich countries, including a disproportionate number from Britain and Canada who believe they have encountered a true alternative to capitalist democracy. Why? It seems to be a way of keeping alive … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Parfey, Adam Parfrey, Adriana Teresa, Conrad Black, Fidel Castro, hemingway, Jacob Williamson, Jeffrey Goldberg, Jonathan Kelly Washington Times, Julia Sweig, Ken Thomas, Maurice Rosenfeld, Norman Saunders, Peter Falk, Raul Canibano Ercilla, Rich Oldberg, Richard Nixon, Ry Cooder, Steven Soderbergh, Terry Southern, Wim Wenders, Woody Allen
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BUG OFF ON THE AMAZON: “They Will Offer No Civilities”
When the Indians assemble here the stranger may have an opportunity of seeing the aborigines dancing to the sound of their country music and painted in their native style. They will shoot their arrows for him with an unerring aim and send the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aimé Bonpland, Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Russel Wallace, Candice Millard, Charles Darwin, Charles Waterton amazon, Claude Levi-Strauss, Ed Stafford Amazon, Edmundo Bielawski, Fabrice Demarthon, George Carlin, Henry Walter Bates, Janet Maslin, Jared Diamond, Lou Gold photography, Napoleon Chagnon, Piers Gibbon, Prince Kropotkin, Richard Spruce, simon horseford, Stephen Jay Gould
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SUGAR FROSTED AMAZON : You Deserve a Break Today…
… so get up and get away….”For the month of July, Nestlé Brasil has unleashed a floating supermarket barge on the tributaries that thread deep into the Amazon region in an attempt to reach some 800,000 Brazilians living in isolated, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Russel Wallace, Allen L. Hammond, Charles Darwin, Charles Waterton, Charles Waterton amazon, Henry Walter Bates, Ivan Zurita, Julia Belluz, Michele Simon, Richard Spruce, Robbie Robertson, Roberto Cavalli Design
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DARK DREAMS: WRITING ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER
The search for myth, for universal patterns is necessarily a search for the meaning of modern life. Or, it can be viewed as an attempt to escape from it. At this point Harlan Ellison’s quest becomes perilous and paradoxical in … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Charles Darwin, Ellen Weil, Eric Shanower, Erik Nelson, Gary K. Wolfe, H.G. Wells, Harlan Ellison, Herman Melville, Jacek Yerka, John Steinbeck, Josh Olson, Josh Wimmer, Lauren Davis, Lewis Wallace, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Paul di Flippo, William Blake
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ITS A MAN’S WORLD:Fighting Over Creature Features
Elmer Wheeler was the greatest salesman of his time. He took a wise crack: “Don’t sell the steak, sell the sizzle” and turned it into an imposing, profit-making, money-sucking business philosophy. Wheeler emphasised that people are not interested in “the steak”, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Caillou, Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, Brett McKay, Bruce Jay Friedman, Charles Darwin, Elmer Wheeler, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, H.G. Wells, Harlan Ellison, Hugh Hirtle, Josh Alan Friedman, Mario Puzo, Martin Goodman, Mickey Spillane, Mrio Puzo, Sherwood Anderson, Stuart Friedman, Will Hulsey
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