Tag Archives: Jean Genet

the chosen: wandering decisions

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Dave

Tyranny of the majority. Its a stock character today, but is the perhaps dominant cultural aesthetic of our time: the endless variations on the neurotic and hyperarticulate, as well as sexually obsessed individual; throw in issues of class and assimilation … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged bar refaeli, Bob Dylan, eugene sue, Guy Debord, Herman Wouk, Hieronymous Bosch, Jacques Derrida, Jean Genet, Marcel Duchamp, natalie wood, Philip Roth, Slavoj Zizek, Woody Allen | Leave a comment

fanon: stoking the flames of freedom

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Dave

Frantz Fanon and the Wretched of the Earth. A prophet scorned. Fifty years after Frantz Fanon’s death, there is still an audience for this theorist of revolution. Question is, are the ideas relevant in an era of post-modernism?… …But prophets … Continue reading →

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fanon: prospero complex

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Dave

Frantz Fanon. The prophet scorned. Fifty years after his death, the audience is still attentive. Violence as the path of least resistance? …The second symptom of the Prospero complex is the symbolic equation of black skin with evil. One descends … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Carl Jung, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Manichaeism delirium, Prospero and Caliban, Prospero Complex, Shakespeare, Sigmund Freud | Leave a comment

fanon: scorning with caliban

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Dave

Frantz Fanon. The prophet scorned. This theorist of revolution, dead for the past fifty years, still finds an audience… …The settler meanwhile, having created this Caliban, fears the animal qualities with which he has invested it. The settler develops what … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Caliban and Prospero, Eldridge Cleaver, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Prospero Complex, Sigmund Freud | Leave a comment

dry bones: toothbrush testers

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Dave

And presto! There’s polonium. Like magic. Like a bad propaganda flick, the blood libel appears in a new form. Arthur Rimbaud would laugh at this disordering of the senses; this artificial, contrived non-event that can be ascribed to an inauthentic … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Amin al-Husseini, Arthur Rimbaud, Dr. Eli Karmon, Israel Ketziot prison, Jean Genet, Jean Genet PLO, judge Edmund Levy, Khaled Meshal, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, MK Yariv Levin, Paul Hirschson, Suha Arafat, Yassir Arafat autopsy, Yassir Arafat polonium | Leave a comment

this hour has 9 minutes and 11 seconds

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Dave

Part of the long and victorious march of image over substance? Arafat. still a celebrity. Still a locus for the communal lives of many. It is one of those incomprehensible and unexplainable side effects whereby a manufactured pop culture icon … Continue reading →

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dial m for money

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Dave

and manipulation. A nice cozy complicity. How to understand Bob Diamond? Maybe he rose to his level of incompetence. Or, perhaps we can compare Diamond to what writer Jean Genet once said said about himself, that the only thing he … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, Bob Diamond Barclays, Ernst Ludwig Kirschner, Jean Genet, LIBOR scandal Barclays Bank, Marshall McCluhan, Patrick Jenkins Financial Times, Paul Tucker Bank of England, Paul Verlaine, Pecora Commission, Peter Lorre, Philip Augar | Leave a comment

between five and six: cruising with the marquise

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Dave

The Marquise Went Out at Five. Claude Mauriac put together a fine conception, worked out with a skill that few novelists have the patience or the delicacy to apply.This concept of time that knows neither past, present nor future and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Andre Gide, Andre Malraux, Claude Mauriac, Francois Mauriac, Gilles Deleuze, Hans Bellmer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Michel Foucault, Nathalie Sarraute, Robert Pinget | Leave a comment

dual core

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Dave

The paintings and art of the Orientalists, including photography, fostered tourism and a fascination with the Orient that shaped and reinforced the Western image of the Orient that is subjectively under the sway of still existing colonial motivations, religious intolerance … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Donald Davidson, Eduard Charlemont, Edward Said, francois molins, H.G. Wells, Jacques Lacan, James Tissot, Jean Genet, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean Leon Gerome, John Milton, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mohammed Merah, Rabbi Sandler toulouse, Sam Huntington, Slavoj Zizek, toulouse killings | Leave a comment

100 red carpets for the sun

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Dave

Seeing Irving Layton in action was poetry as performance art. The phycicality, the gesticulation, the booming delivery, the sublimation, the modulation. A spectacle vascillating between erotic vulgarity, a sort of testosterone based infantilism, yet enigmatically mixed with the redemptive promise … Continue reading →