When a Pilgrimage is Not a Cult of Remembrance By Michael Taussig When she came looking for Walter Benjamin's grave a few months after he died in the Hotel de...
J G Ballard: The comforts of madness J G Ballard's new novel is set in a mall. The master of the urban dystopia tells Marianne Brace why consumerism is a new...
... 'Do you remember,' he [O'Brien] went on, 'writing in your diary, "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four"?' 'Yes,' said Winston. O'Brien...
From the issue dated April 2, 2004 http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i30/30b01601.htm A Fascist Philosopher Helps Us Understand Contemporary PoliticsBy ALAN...
A decade-long passion: Local man translates the works of German Jew Walter Benjamin* By *Cindy Zelman*/ Correspondent Friday, September 29, 2006 - Updated:...
Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull...
A very philosophical lament really ........... ... -- "You, therefore, who wish to remain free, either instantly be wise, or, as soon as possible, cease to be...
"formal manners are most fully developed among barbarians, and diminish with every advance in culture." http://www.zona-pellucida.com/essay-russel.html Read...
My guess is that Keats used the term "cold philosophy" to mean what we now call science. To borrow from a Wikipedia entry: possibly as late as Keats' time,...
I'd guess this piece has something to do with the romantic revolt against mechanistic dualism as exemplified in Newtonianism. The demystification of the world...
Don't know. Perhaps gods and goddesses, fairies and half snake-half women beings do have to fade somewhat from the human psych with the advancement of science...
michael et al <entropy4@...> wrote: Don't know. Perhaps gods and goddesses, fairies and half snake-half women beings do have to fade somewhat from the...
``One word more about giving instruction as to what the world ought to be. Philosophy is in any case always come on the scene too late to give it. As the...
Paranoid means seeing all the things which big human beings have been taught not to see. [...] This is a paranoid story -- it was supposed to be my homework...
Friendship and solidarity Yes that's it Giving Loving Sensuous caring touch and being there all for one and one for all Read "Penguins in Bondage": ...
http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2006/10/ratfink_to_rele.php Ratfink Writes New Book Posted by James Wolcott Such gorgeous weather we've been enjoying in New...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/books/11booker.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1160539200&en=a08a08a4f4618b33&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin The New York Times A...
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1058131 Daily News & Analysis I see the world through the lens of being Indian: Kiran Desai IANS Thursday, October...
"The only question I ever ask any woman is 'What time is your husband coming home?'" You've got to admit, Hud Bannon has got that wry wag's sense of humor. His...
A Further Range (1936) I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there. Watch the communist...
"[At that moment] ... the Reverend Clarence Arthur Wilmot, down in the parsonage of the Fourth Presbyterian Church at the corner of Straight Street and...
``Nowhere, perhaps, is manifested more clearly the power that certain figures have of impregnating space with the divine than at Gizeh, where some of the...
"He built many castles in the air, and peopled them with secret tribunals, and bands of illuminati, who were always the imginary instruments of his projected...
The subject matter of SF is the subject matter of everyday life: the gleam on refrigerator cabinets, the contours of a wife’s or husband’s thighs passing...
Were Hell other people And not myself I could willingly Diagnose the scratchings at the other side Of the door. The telephone rings: from the other end of the...
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