Tag Archives: Elfriede Jelenik

the breaking package

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Dave

The country that gave us Sigmund Freud, Stanley Milgram and Friedrich Hayek economics.That gave us Josef Fritzl, and Hitler and Viktor Frankl and Wittgenstein. And Ludwig von Mises. And Schubert and Wilhelm Reich. Always an uneasy blend between Eastern and … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Elfriede Jelenik, Elfriede Jelinek, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Habsburg Empire, Hofburg Palace, Josef Fritzl, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin van Meytens, Michael Haneke, Michael Haneke Amour, Michael Haneke Cannes, Prince Khevenhuller-Metsch, Sigmund Freud, Winter Riding School of the Hofburg | Leave a comment

AUTUMN OF IMPERIAL VIENNA: Illusions Haunted by the Shadow of Death

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Dave

When Adolf Hitler left provincial Linz in late adolescence there was only one place to go: Habsburg Vienna, the great imperial city, home to a veritable Babylon of peoples, the ineffable seat of an ancient empire. But the crowded streets … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Adolf Loos, Arthus Schnitzler, Brigitte Haman, Brigitte Hamman, Charlotte MacMillan, Ciar Byrne, Crown Prince Rudolf, Elfriede Jelenik, Elizabeth Goodstein, Frederic Raphael, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler, Hermann Bahr, Jason Cowley, Joan Haslip, Jules Wellesley, Karl Krauss, Lyn Gardner, Maria Van Dijk, Max Ophuls, Michael Billington, Michaela Perlmann, Nathan J. Timpano, Robert Pick, Schoenberg, Sigmund Freud, Stanley Kubrick, Theodor Herzl | Leave a comment

EROS AU SECRET:THEY ARE CURIOUS YELLOW ET JAUNE

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Dave

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. (Alphonse KARR, Les Guêpes 1849) The more things change, the more they stay the same. Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton examine how French culture in the eighteenth century projected these new attitudes of lavishness … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alphonse Karr, Amanda Foreman, Andrew Bolton, Andy Round, Arthur Conan Doyle, Barry Hertz, C.P.Snow, Chester Brown, Elfriede Jelenik, Hansford Johnson, Harold Koda, Heidi Taillefer, Heidi Taillefers, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Cameron Mitchell, John Lichfield, John Sutherland, Josef Fritzl, Julia Jones, Man Ray, Marquis de Sade, mary Ellmann, Myra Hindley, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rasputin, Sook-Yin Lee, Sook-Yin Lee Year of the Carnivore, Stanislav Plutenko, Werner Fassbinder | Leave a comment

ENTERTAINMENT VALUE: HIGH IQ LOW IQ & FUKQ

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Dave

Sometimes, unlike Banks, ideas are too small to fail and too big to succeed. Religiously, law makers have practiced anti-eugenics in keeping the big banks and global economy in a recurring coma, various unspecified ”upper body injuries” of the financial … Continue reading →