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t.s. eliot: obsessed with meat
T.S. Eliot a reactionary? The charges of fascism were of course brought against Eliot, and also against Yeats, Lawrence, Pound, and Wyndham Lewis for that ,matter, part of the romantic tug towards purity and blood one can imagine, the kind … Continue reading
stern warnings
Freedom fighter or destructive nihilist who ultimately betrayed the cause of national right of self-determination through misguided, unrealistic and perhaps even self-centered interests that undermined nationhood? Like all the early Zionists, spirituality and religious values were indeterminant and largely non-existent. … Continue reading
waiting for those UI cheques
….Technological unemployment. It’s an old story that’s been knocking at the door for over thirty years, but the message is finally coming home. The old economics textbooks of the late seventies were preaching the gospel of a future of machines … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrew P. McAfee, Bruce Weltry Quiet Logistics, David R. Henderson, David Ricardo economist, Erik Brynjolfsson, GEA farm technology, Jeff Burnstein robotics, Joseph Stiglitz, Kiva robotics, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Ford author, Paul Krugman, steve kroft, T.S. Eliot
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waugh: enjoying the little box
Phantom voices.Evelyn Waugh was a strange bird: the sort of upper class British snobbism that has been washed away; the reactionary conservative with an almost paranoid fear of the “other” with particular emphasis on Jews, who, based on his own … Continue reading
across the great divide: leave it behind
Early in the twentieth century Oswald Spengler, in The Decline of the West, wrote of the irreversible historical pattern of growth, flowering, withering, and decay that has marked the destiny of every known civilization and is, he said, now undoing … Continue reading
back to the futurism: cleansing joy of combat
F.P. Marinetti and futurism. The grand effort to wipe out every vestige of the past. As the poet Guillaume Apollinaire wrote in 1913, it was the first collective effort to suppress history in the name of art… While Filippo Marinetti … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Battle of Adrianople, Bob Dylan, Charles Bernstein MOMA, F.P. Marinetti Futurist Manifesto, Filippo Marinetti, Futurist aesthetics, Guillaume Apollinaire, Isotta Fraschini car, Italian Fascism, Italy World War I, Kenneth Burke, Le Corbusier architect, Mussolini newspaper editor, Pierre Bourgeois, Rene Magritte, Sant' Elia futurist architect, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Walt Whitman
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rome up for sale! …everything must go!
There was a night they auctioned off the Roman Empire. From the west coast to the east, it was released, from Araby to Aragon, including the Eternal City Rome at the height of its glory. All in all, it was … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anthony Mann The fall of the Roman Empire, Christopher Plummer, Commodus, Didius Julianis, Eclectus Commodus's chamberlain, Edward Gibbon, Emperor Vespasian, Josephus Flavius, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcia and Commodus, Marcus Aurelius, Pertinax Roman Emperor, Praetorian Guard Laetus, T.S. Eliot, Tacitus Roman Historian, Thomas Cole painting, Titus and Domitian
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take five with the marquise
Disrupted momentum. A plot, a narrative incident, a moment of the dramatic lending momentum to the whole: Precisely those elements mostly absent in our daily lives, replete as they are with what Walter Benjamin called “messy antics,” confused, shambling and … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Claude Mauriac, Durrel Alexandria Quartet, eugene atget, Francois Mauriac, Gabriel Josipovici, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Cartier-Bresson, James Joyce, James Joyce Ulysses, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Michel Foucault, Nathalie Sarraute, Paul Valery, Rene Magritte, T.S. Eliot, The Art of Noise, Walter Benjamin
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lost highway: back to the city of the patriarchs
The self-hater. it has nothing to do with Gunter Grass’s stupid poem. His meta argument that its not the state its the government, is hoary socialist cant from the left; a socialist attacking Zionism is a family squabble at best. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged anna freud, Bernard Berenson, Clement Greenberg, Daniel Burros, Frank Collin, Franz Kafka, Gideon Levy, Gideon Levy Hebron, Gilbert Frankeau, Gunter grass, Hannah Arendt, Hebron expulsion, Hebron Passover 2012, Lucian Freud, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, meryle secrest, Noam Arnon, Slavoj Zizek, T.S. Eliot, The Groggers, William Loeb, Zionism Origins
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