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Tag Archives: Martin Heidegger
hail to the chief
Theodor Adorno basic thesis was that repression and domination, were part and parcel, intrinsic to the functioning of liberal democratic societies as well as totalitarian fascist ones. The individual as mere exchange value, a commodity, or simple vending machine was … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Franco Spain Phalangist Party, Hassan Nasrallah, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Max Horkheimer, Phalange party Lebanon, Pierre Gemayel, robert fisk, Samaranch IOC, Seymour Hersh, Theodor Adorno, William James
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deep philosophy or conceptual quip?
The greatest philosopher in modern art? Or did the art world make him, artificially construct him into a “readymade” himself, the philosopher who would trash tradition and under the pretext of modernism and the new, engage in the kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Breton, Andy Warhol, Bernard von Lindenau, Damien Hirst, francis p. nauman, Giotto, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jeff Koons, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, mark polizzotti, Martin Heidegger, rudolf herz, The Enlightenment
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transfer agreements
Its the superficial liberal values; essentially reinforcing and continuing the template that was started in the 1930′s with the Transfer Agreement worked out with the early Zionists and the Nazis that brought out 70,000 of the richest German jews to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Arlozoroff transfer agreement, eichmann trial, Ezer Weizmann, Gideon Levy, Goldstone report, Hannah Arendt, Herzl, israel occupation, Israeli Apartheid Week, Jennifer Peyto, Konrad Adenauer, Martin Heidegger, Miko Peled, Moshe Zimmerman, paul schutzer, Rolf Vogel, The Six Day War, Tom Segev, Transfer Agreement Israel, Zionist movement
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tinkling the ivory: recital in the seraglio
Travel hint: Don’t mock Islamic beliefs about Paradise. Not even a John Milton connection about Paradise Lost. There are laws in Paradise, and its no place some some funky anarchist. Screw the Enlightenment. More Heidegger and less Voltaire. Although in … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahmet III Tulip Era, Auguste Roubille, Chris Hedges, Christopher Hitchens, Fazil Say, Fazil Say pianist, Franz Werfel, Gentile Bellini, Madame Girardin wife of French ambassador, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Mimar Sinan University, Norman Finkelstein, Omar Khayyam, orhan pamuk, Rambam, Slavoj Zizek, Sylvester Stallone, Tariq Ramadan, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam, Voltaire The Enlightenment
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trampling on the idea of progress
Is history without meaning, without power and without hope ? … …Even if professionals hold up their hands in horror at the idea of drawing lessons from history, others, far less capable, do not. Toynbee had no hesitation in trampling … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anne Askew, Arnold Toynbee, Caleb Stegall, Edward Albee, F.R. Leavis, Francis Bacon, Gemalde von Albert Anker, Girolamo da Treviso, Jared Diamond, Lawrwnce H. Keeley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Nicholas Wade, Oswald Spengler, War of Kappel, Zwingli Protestant alliance
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return to nature
The return to nature. How can one return to nature and ignore the hunt. There are always current efforts to recover the desirable features of a past way of life, idealized into a mythic sense of equality, non-violence and leisure, … Continue reading
a motionless world of time between
Jean Jacques Rousseau and his Noble Savage. The supposed “enlightened” thinking, of liberal democratic godfathers like David Hume and Immanuel Kant filled with racist delusions. At the opposing spectrum is a Martin Heidegger and the counter-enlightenment which was basically philosophic … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Ballet Africain, Cameroon native dancing, chad native dancing, David Hume, Don Ulloa, emmanuel faye, Hannah Arendt, ivory coast native dancing, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Michel Huet, Montesquieu, sudan native dancing, west cameroon independence
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