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finding their way back to the new-old world
At some point the sublimity of spirituality becomes corrupted, infected and toxified with religious hallucinations embedded with supersitition and fantastic images from the recesses of the mind. An addiction to the subjective roots of ostensibly objective problems. James Ensor could … Continue reading
owsley bear :looking for habitats of unreason
A justifiable flight from reason? I human life inevitably alienating? At a very base and primal level does this alienation and its pathological impulse to dominate make an easy excuse to justify exploitation and thus rationalize our present societal structure?Was … Continue reading
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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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ZONE OF THEIR OWN : HOBGOBLINS WITH SWORDS
“At the very beginning of the long dialogue between thinkers that makes up western political theory there is Plato’s Republic, and at the very beginning of the Republic there is this strange and interesting exchange. Socrates asks an old man, … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, C.Douglas Lummis, Carl Jung, Cervantes, Charles Nodier, Don Quixote, Erasmus Darwin, F.W. Murnau, Francis Ford Coppola, Gérard de Nerval, Gerardus van der Leeuw, Gerog Buchner, Godfrey Reggio, Gregory Corso, Henry Fuseli, Jack Kerouac, Keith Moon, Keith Moon The Who, Ken Russell Gothic, Levi Asher, Michel Foucault, Niccolo Paganini, Philipe Pinel, Plato, Plato Republic, Quasimodo, R.D. Laing, Rene Descartes, Richard Dadd, Sacheverell Sitwell, Sam Fuller Shock Corridor, Shakespeare, Socrates, Stephen A. Diamond, Victor Hugo, William Blake, Willianm Burroughs
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SHEDDING THOSE “TERRESTRIAL GARMENTS” TO THE BACK OF YOUR MIND
“But in the anxiety of the second half of the eighteenth century, the fear of madness grew at the same time as the dread of unreason: and thereby the two forms of obsession, leaning upon each other, continued to reinforce each other. … Continue reading
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THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT
“Artaud saw in Vincent van Gogh a faithful replica of his own torment. After the painter’s suicide he wrote: Dr. Gachet would not tell van Gogh that he was there to straighten out his painting (…) but he used to send … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Galloway, Antonin Artaud, Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Charles Mauron, Christopher Ho, Edouard Manet, Ferdide Lange, Jack Reilly Van Gogh, Joanna Bonger, John Cameron Stout, Kirk Douglas, Neurotic Ninja Studios, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, R.D. Laing, Theo van Gogh, Vincent Minelli, Vincent Van Gogh, Zbigniew Kotowicz
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