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“price tag” policy: just reheat and serve
It doesn’t seem to be enough that 150,000 died in the Lviv ghetto. They have to memorialized in an artificial Jewish restaurant of anti-semitic proportions where the clientele is asked to jew the waiter down on the price of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Agnieszka holland, At the Golden Rose Lviv, Bruno Schulz, Citadel Inn Lviv, Dr. Samuel Gruber, jamie kastner, Joseph Roth, Kryvika restaurant Lviv, Lviv Ghetto, Martin Gray, Martin Grey, Nazaruk owner At the Golden Rose, Sarah Bolt, Simon Wiesenthal Institute, Stefan Bandera, Tom Gross journalist, Wilhelm Reich, Yuliana Kozak
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reaction of the little angry men
This piece is quite good; from Wilhelm Reich, it also seems to capture the contradictions in his own character and the manner in which his own life was a tormented combination of forces he did not necessarily understand. After all, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernie Madoff, Cen Wenling, China Cultural Revolution, Chinese artist Chen Wenling, Franz Kafka, General Douglas MacArthur, Hannah Arendt, Korean War, Li Yuan, Mao Zedong, Niall Ferguson, SINO-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue, Slavoj Zizek China, Wilhelm Reich
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the hidden look: looks within looks
In a way, Zionism is explainable in its zeal to create a “new jew” ; an act of nihilism to consign to the dust-bin of history the entire diasporic experience of jewish life pulverized by the atomic bomb of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abba Kovner, Alfred Rosenberg, Arthur Dinter, Arthur Koestler, eichmann trial, Felix Nussbaum, Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Singer, J.F. Blumenbach, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Martin Englander, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, rich cohen author, roman vishniac, roman vishniak, Theodor Lessing, Walter Benjamin, Wilhelm Reich
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absolutely sweet marie
Michael Haneke wins the Palme D’ Or again. Austria. The perplexing, contradictory and often ambiguous battle ground between the liberal enlightenment, the tradition of Vltaire and Diderot and its almost strange complicity in producing a counter-Enlightenment in the person of … Continue reading
prayers for katarina: under a volcano
The psychotic break. An emotional crisis experienced en masse, collectively, that produces the unexpected; freaks of nature where secularized moral codes can be abrogated and shaped to current circumstances. The role of the ego and its defense mechanisms in the … Continue reading
vienna: codes unknown
Slavoj Zizek once said the fundamental principle of Freudian psychoanalysis, that of the “discord between the logic of the psychic apparatus and the demands of reality”; Stanley Milgram once termed the area formed between Budapest, Prague and Vienna, the Golden … Continue reading
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Tagged Elfriede Jelinek, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Habsburg Empire, Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maria Theresa of Austria, Martin van Meytens, Michael Haneke, Slavoj Zizek, Stanley Milgram, Wilhelm Reich
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a brake on the yellow
I am curious yellow. The taxi as an orgone box. Orgone energy, according to Wilhelm Reich, organizes itself into matter. He believed that when earth is made to swell by boiling or autoclavation, orgone energy is released from the fragmentation and … Continue reading
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Tagged Helen Levitt photography, joe strummer, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, New New York City taxi, New York City Taxi medallions, New york international auto show, nissan 200NV taxi, Orgone Energy, Taxi of Tomorrow Nissan Motor Company, TLC David Yassky, Wassily Kandinsky, Wilhelm Reich
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cloudbusters: the friendly skies
Forget rain dancing and prayer. Call cloud busting a different sort of appeal to nature. It is something like a Rube Goldberg apparatus meeting a Marcel Duchamp ready-made. It completes the mundane task of restoring an equilibrium in nature through … Continue reading
the future looks bright
Rube Goldberg.A fantasy world. And a fantasy not always in harmony with reality. W.C. Fields used to say “blame it on inertia” The inertia, the near fear and terror is technology in conflict with the established aesthetic rules of the … Continue reading
imagination: leaving the gray elysium
An ambivalence to life reflected nowhere more so than the child’s relationship to memory, at once complete, graphic and epic yet vague, blurry and unfinished. And why not, given the facility to escape, to flee at one’s leisure the fairytale … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Ernst Bloch, Francisco Goya, Goethe color theory, Jacob Boehme, Jan Steen, jean paul writer, johann ludwig tieck, Michel Foucault, philipp otto runge, phillip otto runge, Walter Benjamin, Wassily Kandinsky, Wilhelm Reich, Winslow Homer
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