Tag Archives: Jean Genet

orientalism: still swingin’ the sword

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Dave

So, when the sword of Constantine began a swingin’, you could say that all the alternative visions, the heretical variations of Christianity, the Gnostics, Desert Hermits etc. all got the boot and we got the Church. At the other end, … Continue reading →

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shafia: pet rats in a skinner box touch his lever

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Dave

and so it is. Like Freud’s Totem and Taboo, we have an ape man living in groups dominated by an all powerful father who kept all women for his own exclusive sexual use and abuse. Unlimited, buffet style access to … Continue reading →

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at the approach of madness the tide recedes

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, david wojnarowicz, Donald Kuspit, Edgar Allan Poe, Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, Martin Buber, morgan meis, Paul Verlaine, wyatt mason | Leave a comment

rimbaud: farewell of the damned

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Dave

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 →

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muckrakers and culture stakers

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Dave

The pop culture world. We just have to accept it until it runs its course. And the cycle could be very long until it unravels, like a balance sheet depression or a life long illness or addiction that may take … Continue reading →

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prisoner of love: escaping the gatekeeper

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Dave

Attacking the bourgeois values, but the greater the assault the more apparent that the author, in his own particular way, was part of the elite, canonized as cultural commodity himself, like Burroughs and Ginsberg, an icon, a spokesman for articulating … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Caravaggio, Donald Kuspit, Jasper Johns, Jean Genet, Jerry Saltz, lari pittman, Lord Byron, nigel williams BBC, Oscar Wilde, pierre bourdieu, Robert Crumb, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Rauschenberg, the maids 1974, William Burroughs | Leave a comment

cheer readers : a thief’s playbook

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Dave

There exist desires which fall and feed beyond the boundaries of normative polite society. Football, in many ways, a dehumanizing livestock show, the skilled commodity is an intersection, as the Penn State scandal shows, where the erotic topic of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Bell Hooks, Donald Kuspit, gay football players, George Bellows, Jean Genet, joe paterno, mariah burton nelson, Norman Rockwell, penn state sex scandal, rich eisen, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Eakins | Leave a comment

take off your hat when the hearse passes

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Dave

God always seems to be bumping into an atheist’s head in the most unexpected places. There was always Voltaire fessin’ up on his deathbed.His almost comic anti-semitism attributed to a repressed piety and faith. But, then he was always angling … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged arno mayor, Clement Greenberg, Elmer Gantry, Franz Kafka, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, John Lennon, johnny cash, Marc Chagall, Martin Luther, Maurizio Cattelan, Michael Moore, Sinclair Lewis, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

catching a falling knife

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Dave

Herman Cain. The dandy and the legacy of Amos n’ Andy. The Hermanator experience. The old black minstrel show adjusted for free market ideology. Another figure in a long tradition of American snake oil salesmen rising from the depths of … Continue reading →

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bring on those brooding young men

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Dave

“Conventionality is not morality, self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.” —Charlotte Bronte. How many young girls have imagined themselves as a lost Bronte sister, never forgiving themselves for having a childhood devoid … Continue reading →