Tag Archives: John Heartfield

dada dum dada not so dum

Unsureness and confusion, in the sphere of Dada opinion, became a positive value, and one that had lethal effect of what could be termed systems of hierarchy and classification. Like Alfred Jarry, dada postulated a “pataphysical” logic of absurdity that … Continue reading

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veggie people: abstinence and the spiritual stomach

Our unprecedented intensity and passion to which many pursue the holy grail of perfect health.A long history…. …Another leading nineteenth-century vegetarian, Sylvester Graham, the noted diet reformer from whom the graham cracker gets its name, took a more selfish view … Continue reading

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They only came out at night

Revisionist history. Is all history revisionism?From John Lukacs’s The Last European War, almost forty years old, but still valuable… After 1941, “the destiny of Europe depended on two extra-European powers, the United States and the Soviet Union- a condition that … Continue reading

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cold irons bound

From John Lukacs’s The Last European War, and old book from the 1970’s but still pertinent: “one of the most, if not the most successful economists of the twentieth century,” Lukacs says, “was Adolf Hitler. He did not believe in … Continue reading

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bad taste blindfold test

A strange paradigm. Where there are more synagogues looted, desecrated and burned in the Land of Israel than in the entire diaspora combined. Where the polemics of anti-Judaism are considered a rite of passage and armchair sport for the loose-lipped … Continue reading

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dawn of an old day

The Golden Dawn. It conjures up some weird Kabbalah and esotericism of Aleister Crowley. Actually, it’s Greece’s rebranded Nazi party dressed in the regalia of post modernism. The breakaway white trash segment projecting identity politics and clearly jabbing at the … Continue reading

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fantastic realism

She represented the opposite of the one dimensional society that was being constructed around her. Contrary to the nazi idea of purity, the well-managed in-bred society in the quest for the authentic human being and with the help of eugenics, … Continue reading

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the edgy veggies: part of one big family

It seems that god’s original idea, if we look at the story of Adam, was that the first man could have the pick of the garden but not to eat meat. Doing the carnivore act was seen to coarsen the … Continue reading

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a little truth to power

The pop culture hacker. Really a post-modern artist and a critic of capitalism, the entire apparatus of the Evil Empire in all its ugly glory and self rationalizations and justifications for the dirty deeds and power to make others do … Continue reading

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a master collagist

Jesse Marinoff Reyes: The Progressive September, 1987 issue Illustration: Stephen Kroninger Art Director: Patrick Jb Flynn Master collagist Stephen Kroninger was still in the first decade of his career, but was already firmly established in style and attitude. For years … Continue reading

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