Tag Archives: Alex Constantine

history undone:android basterds

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Dave

A vision of the primeval past wandering out of an imaginary forest of pre-historic times, lost in quirk of time. Yes, its the same notorious auroch found in the cave of Lascaux in southern France. The ferocious wild ancestor of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alex Constantine, allan hall, auroch cattle, bobby sands, Charles Darwin, Emile Durkheim, eric vogelin, ernst haekl, fountain of life program, Francis Galton, Friedrich Nietzsche, joel whitebook, katie drummond, Lascaux Cave, lutz and heinz heck, Max Horkheimer, Michel Foucault, Michel Houlebecq, Oswald Spengler, paul theroux, Sigmund Freud, simon de bruxelles, the island of lost souls movie, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Hobbes | Comments Off

postponing utopia: degeneracy as ideal

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Dave

There is a relationship between memory and a participatory emancipation and an equally strong connection with forgetting, loss of memory and enslavement and subjugation. George Orwell asserted that individuals who lack the capability for remembrance are defenseless in confronting the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alex Constantine, Erich Fromm, George Orwell, Noam Chomsky, P.G. Wodehouse, Rudyard Kipling, Salvadore Dali, Stephen Schwartz, tim robbins, W.B. Yeats, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

Peace be with you as the crow flies

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Dave

One of the most popular explanations and perhaps misconceptions of the peace symbol is that Gerald Holtom, a conscientious objector and nuclear disarmament activist , created it in 1958: “During World War II he worked on a farm in England … Continue reading →