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the secret agent: saving us by conspiracy
The cult of the secret agent. In fact as in fiction the spy is the indispensable person of our time. Yet their activity poses a deadly threat to the open society… …One likes to think that the antifascist fanaticism that … Continue reading
little criminals: occupy modify commodify
The ingenious part of our system, our “culture” is its ability to absorb and renew the top twenty percent of the population. These newbies, if you could call them, what Pierre Vallieres might term the new “white niggers of America” … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew coyne, Andrew Potter, Chris Hedges, cornel west, David Mamet, Edward S. Herman, Hannah Hoch, jacques duchesneau, jean charest, jean michel basquiat, John Heartfield, joseph heath rebel sell, Marianne Faithful, Marianne Faithfull, Martin Buber, Noam Chomsky, occupy wall street, Pierre Vallieres, Robert ParkeHarrison, the duchesneau report, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen
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on the road: serenading mickey
Lotte Lenya:The very next day, Joseph Goebbels banned any more performances of Der Silbersee on account of that ballad. A friend who had been arrested got word to Kurt that he must leave Berlin at once – his name was … Continue reading
feeling it in the neck
Lotte Lenya:Anti-Semitism always existed in Germany. I wasn’t aware of it at first – when you’re young, you aren’t so aware. But I wasn’t blind to it, either, especially after Mahagonny. One time, I was walking down the street with … Continue reading
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Tagged anti semitism, Bertolt Brecht, carl a. rossi, Kurt Weill, lotte lenya, Marianne Faithfull
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wayfaring finance: economics on the ship of fools
It is said that there is a distinction between addiction and dependency, meaning that dependency may be a component of addiction, but is not in an of itself addiction. On the ground, in terms of social policy and in establishing … Continue reading
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Tagged bosch prodigal son, bosch ship of fools, bosch the haywain, crypt of the capuchin monks, emmanuel levinas, Hieronymous Bosch, Louis bayard, Margaret Atwood, Marianne Faithfull, mark blyth brown university, Martin Buber, Thorstein Veblen
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guilt and forgiveness: “i” for you “thou” for me…
…and a bell jar in between.Innocence. Does it really exist? Or is it just a virtual good to be bartered with Faustus as another bad deal. Contextually, it is more about the ways individuals manufacture or construct a world of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Solomon, Elaine Showalter, Erica Jong, Felix Nussbaum, Giorgio de Chirico, Jacques Derrida, Marcel Duchamp, Marianne Faithfull, Otto Plath, sylvia plath, sylvia plath daddy, Ted Hughes, Ted Hughes Sylvia Plath
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claudel: before the poison
She was seventeen and wanted to be a sculptor. He was forty-one. He was Auguste Rodin on the verge of taking to the heights of the French art world, being compared to genius of Michelangelo. He had overcome the major … Continue reading
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Tagged Alma Schindler, Auguste Rodin, Bernini, Camille Claudel, Emile Zola, Julia Baudin, Marianne Faithfull, Mary Cassat, Otto Rank, Paul Claudel, Rose Beurat, Sigmund Freud, Stephane Mallarme, Zola
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WEIMAR ARCADE: Shoot the Hypnotist First
Or is the hypnotist merely the decoy, the puppet of even greater evil? The Weimar resemblance? Its nervous, alienated, and often brilliant culture can seem uncomfortably like our own. But, is the sickness that killed the German Republic of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertram M. Gross, Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Ed Driscoll, Eric D. Weitz, Erich Maria Remarque, John Heartfield, Julien Benda, Kurt Weill, Marianne Faithfull, Max Beckmann, Max Ernst, Michael Brenner, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Dix, Peter Rex Valentine, Thomas Mann
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