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mesmerized by the decisive victory: lunatic doctrines
Instructions for losing a war .Lesson one, page one: ignore Karl Maria von Clausewitz… …even his statement that war is a continuation of policy has been twisted into meaning that war is the most effective of political instruments, or that … Continue reading
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fold up the tent: patriots with bonds in their pockets
…As the U.S. miltary officially leaves Iraq, much of us are still puzzled by the phenomenon of this conflict which pits the social, the psychological and the economic in contradictory positions vis. a vis. conventional thinking. Can the conflict be … Continue reading
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Tagged alex pareene, Andre Breton, Carl von Clausewitz, Chris Hitchens, christopher caudwell, David Frum, david turnley photography, Erich Maria Rilke, Jean Renoir, La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir, martin van creveld, Reza Deghati, Sam Huntington, Slavoj Zizek, steven metz, Susan Sontag, Thorstein Veblen, XTC Colin Moulding
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11:11:11 IMAGINE NO REMEMBRANCE
First of all, should we begin by remembering ourselves? What underlies the tension between recollection and forgetting; the desire to remember and the impulse to forget? Can there be a pleasure associated with both? Ultimately, there is a will that … Continue reading
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Tagged Dalton Trumbo, Dr. Marcus Hawel, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gary Tillery, Jay Winter, Jens Reich, Jerry Rubin, John Lennon, John Milton, Kathe Kollwitz, La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir, Marcus Hawel, Martin Jay, Max Horkheimer, Otto Dix, Peter Kollwitz, R.D. Laing, Rex Murphy, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Stark, Theodor Adorno, Tom Hanks, W.B. Yeats, Walter Benjamin, White Poppy Coalition, Yoko Ono
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BOUND FOR GLORY?: TALKING ABOUT BAGISM, SHAGISM, DRAGISM…
” Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion throws many people for a loop the first time they see it. Its reputation as one of the great works of cinema leads them to expect an eye-popper like Citizen Kane, or a work such … Continue reading
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