Tag Archives: irina ionesco

relating to the THIRD

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Dave

Relating to the other. It sounds like a great idea. We are depersonalized and the concept of the face to face as opposed to human relationships seen through attempts to conceptualize the totality of being has a certain intuitive appeal … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged August Sander, Baruch Spinoza, Carolee Schneemann, Christopher Hitchens, emmanuel levinas, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Harold Bloom, irina ionesco, joel-peter witkin, Nicolas Poussin, schelling, william gedney, zizek | Leave a comment

at the wall of disbelief

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Dave

It’s another case of utter disbelief. It can be said that disbelief arises, as a primal reaction, before knowledge, rationality, and analysis roll in and suffocate it; attempts to domesticate it, tame the volatile components and explain it away, perhaps … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Carolee Schneemann, Friedrich Nietzsche, H.L. Mencken, irina ionesco, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, John Malkovich, Josef Fritzl, Joseph Conrad, peter sloterdijk, Slavoj Zizek, the sound of music | Leave a comment

witkin: aesthetic priest last rites

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Dave

Sprinkle a bit of holy water. throw some ash over he shoulder and maybe keep a little pepper spray in the frock. A tragic morbidity that seems to romanticize violence even as it masquerades ostensibly as a critique, maybe a … Continue reading →