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little red books: messianic with the lord of chin
The emperors’ mandate was to rule “all under Heaven,” which meant not only China but the surrounding barbarian areas that still awaited the civilizing influence of China. After all, the Chinese name for China means “Middle Kingdom” and embodies the … Continue reading
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Tagged Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek, China Cultural Revolution, China Little Red Book, China magazine Red Flag, China Three Constantly Read Articles, China Three Old Articles, dowager empress Tzu Hsi, Edgar Snow, Jiang Jiehong, John Zorn, John Zorn Shanghai, Jonathan Cape, Lan Ping Blue Duckweed, Lan Ping Mao Zedong wife, Li Li-san early communist leader, Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong personality cult, Mao's son An-lung, Norman Bethune, Sun Yat-sen, Wang Hai-jung, Yao Wenyuan, Zhang Side
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case of mistaken identity: but not in my backyard
Mistaken identity and false pretense. Mistaken identity has always been the source for arriving at some rich existential meanings.But, behind fervent religious belief, is it the will to meaning in the sense of Victor Frankl, or some twisted ideology arising … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, David Lynch, Gideon Levy Haaretz, Hegel Philosopher, ingrid peritz, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, jewish taliban, John Zorn, john zorn circle maker, lev tahor sect, marc ribot, menachem kahana, Michel Foucault, patrick martin globe and mail, schreber, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin, warren jeffs
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lotus surreal: kimono my people
Do they deliberately mean to be unfathomable? The Japanese way of life has always contained a challenge to Western individuals which historically has provoked extreme responses. At one end, there is a feeling of enviousness of a spirit of graceful … Continue reading
ART AS HELL IN A HAND-CART: The New Objectivity?
“The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life.” …”All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.” (Walter Benjamin )…”A work of art carries its defence within itself.” ( Jean Cocteau). Entartete Kunst … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Cesar Klein, Erich Nolde, Georg Swarzenski, Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub, Helen Webberley, J.K. Harrell, Jankel Adler, Jean Cocteau, Johannes Itten, John Zorn, Julie Gladstone, Kathe Kollwitz, Marc Chagall, Max Pechstein, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Dix, Raoul Hausmann, Steven Lehrer, Walter Benjamin
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TURN ON, TUNE IN, AND DROP OUT?
According to the “knowability thesis,” every truth is knowable.Frederic Fitch’s paradox refutes the knowability thesis by showing that if we are not omniscient, then not only are some truths not known, but there are some truths that are not knowable. The … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Alain Resnais, Albert Camus, Frederic Fitch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Restall, Homer The Iliad, John Zorn, Ken Kesey, Peter Sellers, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Alpert, Richard Metzger, Stanley Kubrick, Timothy Leary, Toshiro Mifune
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