Tag Archives: Bertolt Brecht

redondo speech

Meme mash-up that incorporates the poetry of Pete Brown, Patti Smith and that inner you yearning to break-out and expand the limits of the universe. All in the good name of Madame Pickwick. Is it intrinsic, does it appear to … Continue reading

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tugs of war

To recoil from the tired shape. Form and anti-form collide, tugging from opposite sides at the drama of naturalistic illusion. The urge to engage in the shattering of shape. And never shall the twain be twined again. Excuse us for … Continue reading

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Brecht: don’t look back

Somewhat shakily, tottering, revelation and the spiritual in art managed to survive intact after being banged around from the forces of the new objectivity.It is an absurd state of mind Brecht was latching onto to express alienation in a form … Continue reading

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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

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grammatical fears? try the fold-in method

The phrases “literary inhibitions” and “grammatical fears” are revealing as a sort of post-modern aesthetic that had their roots particularly in the jargon and anti-language of the Beat poets and writing as a performance art. in their crude way they … Continue reading

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sleeping in comfort: gracious living

Such a disconnect between the bright, optimistic and shiny marketing image of Ikea and the reality of slave labor production; all those earnest and evolved Swedes, post-Bergman’s, meticulously laying the framework for a do-it-yourself assembly post modern aesthetic of cheap … Continue reading

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romancing the joan

The trial and execution of Joan of Arc was just the beginning for the poor soul. In the centuries since the Maid has continued to provoke anger and awe, becoming a symbol for monarchists, romantics, Left and Right… Another movement … Continue reading

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weill done: a weill deal

by Art Chantry: one thing i’ve taught myself to do while thrifting is to always ALWAYS dig through old stashes of classical records. i used to skip over classical records when i found them at yard sales and thrift store … Continue reading

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acknowledged silences

We are dealing with unavoidable traumatic effects; actual and not idealized fancified tragedies and catastrophes. We don’t need T.S. Eliot preaching how low we have sunk. It was the trial run of eugenics, Fabianism, H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and … Continue reading

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garibaldi : romance for the authentic

They don’t make them like that anymore. He was one of the first stars of the media age of mass produced and disseminated images. it was the beginning of celebrity as the basis for our communal lives; the most significant … Continue reading

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