Tag Archives: Susan Sontag

the reacting meme

Hitler is against SOPA.In a way its the normalization of Hitler that would have Saul Friedlander cringing, and perhaps Susan Sontag smiling at the camp of it all. It casts a light, or shadow back on the documentary The Corporation … Continue reading

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correctional devices

Truth at the margins. Playing with trauma and variations on holding the traumatic moment. There is an uneasy relationship with popular culture, kitsch, and an underlying current of fascism. As Adorno said, “The encouragement of kitsch is merely another of … Continue reading

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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

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utopia : bauhaus uber alles?

The Bauhaus as the end of art as a humanizing activity. Not even the marker of Benjamin’s messianic nihilism. Just the nihilism of barbarous anonymity. A lifeless black hole. Maybe, ultimately, Bauhaus is so anti-kitsch it is kitsch. Is the … Continue reading

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fold up the tent: patriots with bonds in their pockets

…As the U.S. miltary officially leaves Iraq, much of us are still puzzled by the phenomenon of this conflict which pits the social, the psychological and the economic in contradictory positions vis. a vis. conventional thinking. Can the conflict be … Continue reading

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spirit of the forbidden

The unvarnished truth. Banal attractiveness sauntering into the realm of tedious familiarity? Bourgeois effrontery through others as a form of marketable cliche?  Diane Arbus remains somewhat of a mystery. There is a contrast here, marked, between a Helen Levitt, Cartier-Bresson … Continue reading

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ragpickers: rag mama rag

Giving significance to the insignificant. Applying ego to the inanimate object, devoid of ego, and conferring a centrality of the marginal and unwanted, the value of debris and discard. The hand-me-down and down and down. A profane illumination in the … Continue reading

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i-surrealism: mad mac

It is a new nature, a new Spinozian episode that re-designates an entire material world of objects, which includes the individual in bone and flesh, both determined and transformed by technology. So, there is no significant or gaping difference between … Continue reading

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alchemy and attics: even nice trash finishes last

Arousing the liveliest regret in the dreamer…. The scrap heap of history. The trash heap of history.Discarded and abandoned objects on the pile of the dustheap. Shipwrecked artifacts left to ebb and flow. So, what does ecology, the green movement … Continue reading

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descent worries and anxiety: “easy delight”

I came across a biography of Maria Landrock who was a celebrity star during the Third Reich. It does force one to look at the role of popular entertainment within its context as part of the entertainment industry pushed to … Continue reading

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