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cliffhangers: ledge walkers

Between a rock and a hard place. In free-fall without a net. On one hand, the consumer is exhorted to spend; to glue themselves to mass popular culture where every inch of space, every second of time is induced to … Continue reading

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go back to your woods

Resurrection. Understanding the past as a key to unlock the future. The relationship of the individual to nature.  All kinds of themes are present here in Chuck Leavell paying homage to the piano blues artists going back to the 1920′s … Continue reading

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celebrity contagion :thirty two short momentos by glenn gould

The fetish object. The continuous restlessness of meaning. Unresolved tension through which the commodity is continually fetishized, de-fetishized and reproduced to look like the old; warts, scratches, scuffs and all. A reanimation that represents a highlighting of utopian longings dating … Continue reading

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memory bank: cloud in the head

Apparently Cyrus the Great could address every soldier in his army by name. Leon Gambetta, the French statesman, could quote thousands of pages of Victor Hugo verbatim. Possessors of these preternaturally powerful memories are called eidetics. Some call them freaks. … Continue reading

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in search of vigor

An illness of the nerves. It reveals an underlying stress about our fears about the body. A dissociation between body and soul as mutually antagonistic with only the faintest hope of reconciliation.Hypochondria is a very old name for a malady … Continue reading

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