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rage against the trader
The origin may be an ancient one, that idea, peculiar to many, which asserted that making business is dirty business. Money is ugly. It appears to be a Medieval concept and a Greek and Roman notion that looked negatively upon … Continue reading
judging a cover by its book
Biblical prophecy is always a fascinating subject, dealing as it does with the hope of golden age, a repairing of the world, a making whole, a redemption mixed with the equal propensity for apocalyptic destruction. It predates the secular utopianism … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Dante Republic, Francis Bacon, Franz Kafka, Igal Hecht, Jonathan Swift, Kosher Jesus, Leonard Cohen, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Milan Kundera, Nicolas Poussin, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe, Richard Dawkins, Schmuley Boteach, Sir Thomas More, Walter Benjamin
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ordinary protektion
Accommodation and resistance. A cynical adaptation blending to outright futile rebellion. It is said to be a peculiar triangle, the one formed between Munich, Prague and Vienna, the one responsible for among others, Kafka, Freud and Hitler and the late … Continue reading
Havel enough
There has been a lot of ink spilled for Vaclav Havel, most all of it favorable. He was deeply Western; acculturated to rock music and American culture in general, and a willing actor to boot communism into the dust-bin, greatly … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alexander Cockburn, andy kilmistir, Ayn Rand, Christopher Hitchens, Dalai Lama, Friedrich A. Hayek, George Soros, jeri pelikan, michael parenti, Milan Kundera, Milos Forman, Neville Chamberlain, Noam Chomsky, Slavoj Zizek, vaclav havel, vaclav klaus
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a grid of paradoxes
The Middle Way. To find the way through the enigma of the middle way. Vaclav Havel was beset by various interpretations of the middle course of action; between the Maimonides view and the older Aristotlean. To be stuck between the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged alexander dubcek, Dostoevsky, frank zappa vaclav havel, Franz Kafka, jan patocka, lou reed vaclav havel, Milan Kundera, milos foreman, Peter C.Newman, Samuel Beckett, Tom Stoppard, vaclav havel, vaclav havel the leaving, velvet underground vaclav havel
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a little face to face
Is it possible to be so politically correct that we end up chewing our own tail. Is there a realm within the politically correct that is not politically correct? Its been said that as long as there exists the dynamic … Continue reading
beatlemania : because we said so
Celebrity as a cultural signifier. The need for the sacrificial. Are myths to a large degree, constructions, fabrications, which are conspirational in nature? Something to serve a base need as a substitute for finding meaning in life. Here, the victim … Continue reading
innocently traipsing across the great divide
The creepiest aspects of normalcy are the one’s we don’t think about, that we take for granted, that slip under our radar and end up drawing them into our web complete with their structural cultural pattern, their mechanisms of reinforcement, … Continue reading
escape to the clumsy arrangements
The aesthetization of political understanding. After all, kitsch is the dominant culture, almost the only culture. Its effects are characterized by immediacy, an ingratiating nature,a form devoid of ambiguity and a cuteness marked by superficiality. Sometimes however, and somewhat disconcertingly, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged adolf reich, adolf wissel, Arno Breker, carl andre, Christian Schad, Clement Greenberg, dennis dutton, Donald Kuspit, edmund steppes, Harold Rosenberg, Herman broch, leo baeck, Louis Proyect, Max Ernst, Michele C. Cone, Milan Kundera, paul padua, sigmar polke
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boredom: waiting for something to happen
and so it is so Modern boredom. Deep-seated boredom. The suspension of relations with reality and its replacement mined from the depths of the netherworld splitting into variations of nothingness; a world without meaning, without autonomy and without larger connections … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged austin warren, Charles Baudelaire, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Kafka, Heinrich Heine, irving babbitt, Jean Renoir, joel-peter witkin, John Everett Millais, Lucian Freud, Marcel Proust, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, Milan Kundera, Pierre Auguste Renoir, ralph greenson, Samuel Beckett, Soren Kierkegaard
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