Tag: postmodernism
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April 5, 2013 Mark Dyal
Deleuze, Guattari, & the New Right, Part 2
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2,847 words
“A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.” – Gilles Deleuze[1]
It Begins with Nietzsche
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1,155 words
French translation here
“Postmodernism” is one of those academically fashionable weasel words like “paradigm” that have now seeped into middlebrow and even lowbrow discourse. Those of us who have fundamental and principled critiques of modernity quickly learned that postmodernism is not nearly postmodern enough. (more…)
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“Rome is the boundary between East and West. South of Rome, the East starts, and north of Rome, the West starts. This border-line now, runs exactly over the Forum Romanum. There’s my house, this explains my life and my music.” — Giacinto Scelsi
The music of Giacinto Scelsi is still relatively obscure, which is in keeping with the reclusive and esoteric character of the composer himself. (more…)
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I was a very small child when the Dark Shadows serial was first airing on ABC at 4:00pm Monday through Friday. Some of my most vivid early memories are associated with it. Dark Shadows was originally conceived as a Gothic romance. Premiering on June 27, 1966, it centered on Victoria Winters, a young woman who takes the job of governess to the young scion of the wealthy Collins family, who reside in the spooky Collinwood mansion in spooky Collinsport, Maine. (more…)
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January 6, 2012 Robert Steuckers
Desafios Pós-modernos:
Entre Fausto & NarcisoTradução: para o inglês por Greg Johnson
[Para o português pela Equipe Yrminsul]Parte 1
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Parts 1 & 2; Czech translation here
Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction is one of my favorite movies. I didn’t want to like it. I didn’t even want to see it. Everything I’d heard made me think it would be thoroughly nihilistic and quite unpleasant. But then someone at a party described Pulp Fiction as a movie about “greatness of soul at the end of history,” and that caught my attention, (more…)
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2,063 words
Part 3 of 3
Translated by Greg Johnson
The Babbitt with the Sartrean Paradox
In 1945, the tone of ideological debate was set by the victorious ideologies. We could choose American liberalism (the ideology of Mr. Babbitt) or Marxism, an allegedly de-bourgeoisfied version of the metanarrative. (more…)
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December 15, 2010 Robert Steuckers
Postmodern Challenges:
Between Faust & Narcissus, Part 2 -
1,760 words
Part 1 of 3
Translated by Greg Johnson
In Oswald Spengler’s terms, our European culture is the product of a “pseudomorphosis,” i.e., of the grafting of an alien mentality upon our indigenous, original, and innate mentality. (more…)