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Tag Archives: Georges Bataille
languid luxury: the quicksand complex
Inertia as the root of evil. Is it the same as laziness? What to make of leisure present in the ideologized function of art where an aesthetic of laziness seems connected to the notion of conspicuous consumption, comparative preferences and … Continue reading
liberating the line: painting the bestial floor
Was the use of automatism to pry into abstraction and the subconscious essential to Abstract Expressionism? It can be asserted that it was significant in unlocking the mystery and meaning of the abstract plane; a gateway into the world of … Continue reading
a little face to face
Is it possible to be so politically correct that we end up chewing our own tail. Is there a realm within the politically correct that is not politically correct? Its been said that as long as there exists the dynamic … Continue reading
at the approach of madness the tide recedes
Mercy. To be relieved of one’s own consciousness. Codifying surrealism into a vernacular language.Not like the mutuality of life and death, the proximity of opening a heavy dark door and entering the blackness to grab your attention.If you can’t leave … Continue reading
rimbaud: farewell of the damned
He held out for some sort of salvation, but what that was to be, its form, went largely unknown and undefined. The broken home, childhood sexual trauma, abusive parents, addiction. Like Jean Genet, the criminal and outlaw experience informed the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, Bob Dylan, Carl Jung, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Degas, Emanuel Swedenborg, Franz Kafka, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, Hieronymous Bosch, Jean Genet, jef rossman, joel-peter witkin, leo ferre, Paul Verlaine, Sigmund Freud, Todd Haynes, Walt Whitman
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heavy wadders
Crap. Rubbish. Shit. A higher truth about our world: all baloney. The underclass image of kitsch rubbish is simply part of the capitalist upper class. An accessory item. An option to be sold short. The ethical cachet of defiant rebelliousness … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, arielle bier, Dadaism, Eli Kazan, Erich Fromm, Georges Bataille, John Baldessari, John Paulson, Jonathan Swift, karl abraham, katharine harvey, Marcel Duchamp, Marlon Brando, michael parekowhai, Milan Kundera, Murakami art, Salvador dali, Thorstein Veblen
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lost manuscript: searching with the rag pickers
There have been some famous lost manuscripts in the history of literature. There was Hemingway’s lost suitcase,Malcolm Lowry’s manuscript draft of Ballast to the White Sea was lost to fire in his shack near Vancouver, Plath’s 130 page draft of … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged carina birman, dani karavani, david mauas, david s. ferris, Edouard Manet, Erich Fromm, Georges Bataille, Gershom Scholem, henning ritter, henny gurland, jean francois raffaelli, lisa fittco, Max Horkheimer, michael taussig, Stephen Schwartz, Stuart Jeffries Guardian, T.E. Lawrence, Ted Hughes Sylvia Plath, Theodor Adorno, thomas attardi, Thomas Carlyle, Walter Benjamin
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