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from russia with blood: soul on ice
A Russian soul on ice somewhere freezing somewhere in a clearly unromantic wasteland of the north?Valery Popov: “he killed six people, but his soul was pure.” Russian history, its tragedies, sufferings and near fatalistic natures can lead one to conclude … Continue reading
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Tagged alexei varmalov, Dostoyevsky, Grigori Rasputin, harrison salisbury, isaac babel, jeff stein, K.R. Bolton, mikhail bulgakov, nikolai ignatiev, pushkin, russia china conflict, Sergei Eisenstein, Solzhenitysn, valery popov, Vladimir Putin
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Orwell: cracked mirrors and memory holes
The mental disease of imagination…Twenty-seven years after the fateful year of 1984, we are still fascinated by George Orwell’s dystopic vision of rationalism gone mad, stark raving mad. There is always the temptation to measure how cold we are willing … Continue reading
WEIMAR AND THE VIOLENCE OF AMNESIA: Trope of a Troubled Burial
Accusations of elitism, populous slanders of the word as pejorative have been unleashed as aprt of the American cultural landscape in this season of discontent. Can we take lessons form the Weimar Republic? The right wing tone of academia in … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Albert Birkle, August Sander, Charles Baudelaire, Dostoyevsky, Ernst Junger, Georges Bataille, Hegel Philosopher, Herbert von Reyl-Hanisch, Irving Wohlfahrt, Jay Winter, Jeanne Mammen, Martin Buber, Oskar Kokoschka, Pierre Missac, Stefan George, Stephane Moses, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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LISTENING TO THE BACK BEAT
” …and, escorted by two police cars, the group drove to a ball park on the corner of Army Street and Portero Avenue, where they played a game against the Bank of California ‘Nuggets’, to prove to the squares that … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged A.D. Winans, Alfred Jarry, Allan Johnston, Allen Ginsberg, Andre Breton, Arthur Miller, Arthur Rimbaud, Bill Whipp, Bob Kaufman, Bob Margolis, Bob Weir, Charles Baudelaire, David Apfelbaum, Dostoyevsky, Elia Kazan, Eric Big daddy Nord, Ernst Gombrich, gary Snyder, Gerald Nicosia, Gregory Corso, Henry Miller, Herbert Gold, Herbert Huncke, Herman Melville, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, John Clellan Holmes, John Clellon Holmes, Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Levi Asher, Lew Welch, Lyle Tollefson, Maggie Reiff, marty matz, Michael McClure, Neal Cassady, Philip Whalen, Podhoretz, Scott Macfarlane, Sigmund Freud, Timothy Leary, Tom Christopher, William Blake
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