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from whence she came
Intentional crisis that got out of hand? Power grab by Germany and will they serve as the patsy of choice again? It’s a shadowy sort of dance we are witnessing in Europe and for many it doesn’t make sense. The … Continue reading
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Tagged angela merkel hitler daughter, doug saunders globe and mail, francois hollande, Greek debt crisis, horst kasner, indignados movement spain, Jim Rickards, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mark blyth brown university, Max Ernst, oskar schlemmer, Richard Wagner, Thorstein Veblen
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unconscious aggression: the blind minotaur
“When one has no character, one must have a method.” (Camus ) How can one reconcile such an atrocious human being with art? Unless its an art that glorifies the ugly, the sadistic; an impulse drunk on misogyny that craved … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Clement Greenberg, Douglas Cooper, Friedrich Nietzsche, h. blum, kincaid paintings, Lyonel Feininger, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Richard Wagner, roland penrose, Salvador dali, salvador dali and picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, walter kaufmann
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from babylon to berlin: endless summer
The universal stream of forms flows on. What Hannah Arendt called the pulse of life, an interminable grinding of contradictions amidst a violent clash of the irreconcilable. How to find meaning in those unpredictable flashes in the space between. A … Continue reading
read them the riot act…after this commercial break
The Last Riot depicts beautiful children, teenagers as stylized warriors; an updated version of Caravaggio that sabotages militarism and brings it to a logical conclusion. Lord of the Flies. Its nihilistic. Its apocalyptic and its an exercise in the aesthetic … Continue reading
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Tagged AES+F, Antonin Artaud, Byron, Caravaggio, Franz Kafka, Guy Debord, Hannah Arendt, Leah Sandals, Lev Evzovitch, Richard Wagner, russian collective aes+f, Tatiana Arzamasova, Walter Benjamin
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alternative community & utopia postponed
The easy explanation for the enduring appeal of Herman Hesse is that he offers hope and romance.There is a pushing back against the seduction of acquisition and competition; the wrestling over scarce resources and the Cain and Abel scenario. Also … Continue reading
revenge of the mediocre: all hail the chief
The Aryan myth. It started simply enough as an irresoluble issue in comparative linguistics at the the dawn of the Romantic Age. Then, caught between quack science, nationalist fervor, and raw emotion, it transformed itself into a full-fledged theory of … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Ziegler, Angelica Kauffmann, emil schiebe, Frederic Spotts, geoffrey wheatcroft, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, hugo hoppener, hugo hoppener fidus, James Young, Leni Riefenstahl, Max Horkheimer, Mies van der Rohe, Richard Wagner, sepp hilz, Theodor Adorno
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I’m O.K you’re not O.K: Death wish
Self-destruction as aesthetic pleasure? The Aryan myth was born as a minor issue in comparative linguistics at the end of the eighteenth-century. From there it assumed proportions of a full-fledged racial theory in the Romantic age that welded sentimentality, blood, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Ziegler, Cosima Wagner, Franz Rosenzweig, Friedlander, Grosz, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Leni Riefenstahl, Maria tatar, Max Horkheimer, Richard and Cosima Wagner, Richard Wagner, Sontag, Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin
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chopin of dissonance: nocturnes on renunciations of reality
For sixteen prolific years in France prior to splitting with George Sand, Chopin had produced an uninterrupted stream of masterpieces on such a consistently brilliant level of craftsmanship and invention that it is well-nigh impossible to talk of a bell … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Gide, Bach, Chopin, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, George Sand, Hannelore Mundt, Heinrich Heine, Jane Birkin, Oscar Wilde, Pauer, Radek Sikorski, Richard Wagner, Robert Schumann, Schumann, Serge Gainsbourg, Thomas Mann
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STORYTELLERS IN THE FOREST: Making Peace With The Power Of Death
Freud said of folk tales that they contain “the dreams of the human race.” One of these dreams is about the simple good prevailing over the subtle wicked. Most of the stories that the Grimm brothers collected are lay moral … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lang, Brothers Grimm, Brueghel the Elder, Carpenter, E.B. Taylor, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Goethe, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack Zipes, Jacob Grimm, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Jacobs, Lisa Falzon, Marc Chagall, Nikolai Lesskow, Nin Harris, Norman Mailer, Paul Auster, Pieter Brueghel, Richard Wagner, Robert Darnton, Saul Bellow, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Benfey, Tom Davenport, Walter Benjamin, Wilhelm Grimm
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BEGINNING OF THE NAMELESS SOMETHING: PROMETHEUS for all
Monarch of Gods and Dæmons, and all Spirits But One, who throng those bright and rolling worlds Which Thou and I alone of living things Behold with sleepless eyes! regard this Earth Made multitudinous with thy slaves, whom thou Requitest … Continue reading
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Tagged Algernon Swinburne, Arielle Dombasle, Arthur Miller, Bernard-Henry Levy, Byron, Charles Dickens, Corot, David Goldblatt, David Grigg, E.J. Trelawny, Edward Steichen, F.W. Murnau, Flaubert, Fred Inglis, Frederic Chopin, Goethe, Gustave Flaubert, Hector Berlioz, Henri Bernard-Levy, James Meek, John Keats, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joseph Severn, Lara Feigel, Leo Tolstoy, Lord Byron, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rene Chateaubriand, Richard Wagner, Ron Mueck, Stendhal, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Medwin, Victor Hugo
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