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outlaw culture: drawn to darkness
Drawn to darkness and obscurity, but with a tenacious grip onto the light. Pure forms existing, withstanding, even though they convey impressions of isolation and alienation. There is a heroism of the outlaw, a kind of aesthetic, a beauty of … Continue reading
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Tagged arthur goldreich, Bell Hooks Outlaw Culture, black september, Edmund White, Edward Said, gilad schalit, gilad shalit, hadrien laroche, holly downing, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, marlene dumas, noami klein, ronit lentin, stan persky, Z communications Michael Albert
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genet’s existence and essence
Complexity of atmosphere and motive. Are morality and aesthetics mutually exclusive? In the case of Jean Genet, does eroticizing the victims, often his own lovers, wipe the slate clean, peeling away the layers of Judeo-Chrisitian morality? Jean Genet always put … Continue reading
genet: delaying the punch-line
Jean Genet:”A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness” Genet’s stage is a space where politics and metaphysics collide, and partly fuse.Some of it sticks to the wall. Like … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, black panther party, Bobby Seale, Edmund White, elbert howard, Georges Bataille, hadrien laroche, Henri Bernard-Levy, Huey Newton, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, joseph strick, Ken Kesey, Peter Falk, Slavoj Zizek, stan persky
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genet: risk and the safety of ritual
If we were talking only of the prose such as Our Lady and Journal of the Flowers, it might perhaps be possible to sweep past Genet. These books are books of prismatic brilliance, containing scene after scene of bizarre or … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, bernard henri-levy, Bernard-Henry Levy, Edmund White, genet the balcony, hadrien laroche, hans koechler, Henry Miller, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, stan persky, William Burroughs
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dislocation : journals of the anti-saint
Disturbing. Jean Genet is Downright terrifying. A dark star. A solitude and shimmering of a black star. …Outside select literary circles, Genet is today an almost-forgotten writer, so it’s probably appropriate not only to consider the “last Genet,” but also … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahdaf Soueif, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Rimbaud, August Strindberg, Edmund White, hadrian laroche, Henrik Ibsen, Henry Miller, Herbert Huncke, Jacques Derrida, Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet, Jean-Luc Godard, Michel Foucault, Samuel Beckett, stan persky, Terry Southern, William S. Burroughs
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