Tag Archives: vaclav klaus

havel : changing horses in mid-stream

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Dave

A mixed legacy that seemed to be heartily leveraged to the idea of repression and suffering as a source for sublime aesthetics. A pretext for the literary creation formed by the ravages of the totalitarian state. To many it was … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged adam michnik, Christopher Hitchens, Edmund Husserl, Franz Kafka, jan svoboda, Louis Proyect, michael parenti, Noam Chomsky, Samuel Beckett, Slavoj Zizek, thomas masaryk, Tom Stoppard, vaclav havel, vaclav klaus, Viktor Frankl | Leave a comment

coz andy warhol sez

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Dave

Are free market solutions the answer to public policy problems? A very divisive question to be sure. Much appears to depend on the degree of income disparity society is willing to tolerate, the level of corporate welfare taxpayers are willing … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, emmet cole, Joseph Schumpeter, Marcel Duchamp, Mike Kelley, Milos Forman, Noam Chomsky, paul mccarthy, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor Adorno, tipper gore, vaclav havel, vaclav klaus, Vincent Van Gogh | Leave a comment

ordinary protektion

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Dave

Accommodation and resistance. A cynical adaptation blending to outright futile rebellion. It is said to be a peculiar triangle, the one formed between Munich, Prague and Vienna, the one responsible for among others, Kafka, Freud and Hitler and the late … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged arno mayer, Franz Kafka, jan hrebejk, jan kubis, leonard quart, marek najbrt, Milan Kundera, miloslav holman, Slavoj Zizek, vaclav havel, vaclav klaus | Leave a comment

Havel enough

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Dave

There has been a lot of ink spilled for Vaclav Havel, most all of it favorable. He was deeply Western; acculturated to rock music and American culture in general, and a willing actor to boot communism into the dust-bin, greatly … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alexander Cockburn, andy kilmistir, Ayn Rand, Christopher Hitchens, Dalai Lama, Friedrich A. Hayek, George Soros, jeri pelikan, michael parenti, Milan Kundera, Milos Forman, Neville Chamberlain, Noam Chomsky, Slavoj Zizek, vaclav havel, vaclav klaus | 1 Comment

havel: transcending extinction

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Dave

Transcendence as the only viable alternative to extinction.Transcendence being, ultimately, the dismantlement of the nation state system, a one world new world order. Vaclav Havel is a mixed legacy that is praised by neo-liberal market based advocates and unredeemable by … Continue reading →