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Showing posts with label barthes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label barthes. Show all posts
24 Apr 2025

Egon Schiele's Portraits on Paper: Poignant, Provocative, or Pornographic?

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Egon Schiele: Moa (1911) [1] Gouache, watercolour and pencil on paper  (48 x 31 cm) omertiroche.com   'I do not deny that I have made d...
18 Apr 2025

Notes on Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts (Part 2: pp. 75-180)

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Photo of Maggie Nelson by Jarrett Eakins (2013)  alongside the cover of her book The Argonauts    (Graywolf Press, 2015)     Note: this post...
1 Mar 2025

An Open Letter to Simon Solomon from Stephen Alexander

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  Stephen Alexander / Simon Solomon Dear Simon, Thank you for your remarks on a recent post entitled ' Yabba Dabba Doo! ' (28 Feb 20...
26 Nov 2024

Becoming-Robot With Nam June Paik

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Nam June Paik: Robot (1990)  Mixed metal with lightbulb  55 x 12 cm   shaperomodern.com     I.    Last week, as mentioned in a recent post ...
25 Feb 2024

Will Absence Make My Heart Grow Fonder of Byung-Chul Han? (Part 1)

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(Polity Press, 2023)     I.    Although Daniel Steuer's English translation of Byung-Chul Han's book Absence was only published las...
12 Jan 2024

Reflections on Vita Contemplativa by Byung-Chul Han (Part One)

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(Polity Press, 2024)     I.    The subtitle of Byung-Chul Han's new little book is In Praise of Inactivity [a] . But it's important...
3 Jan 2024

Aphrodite's Girdle

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Aphrodite's Girdle , contributed by Mary Metzer to The Museum of Fictional Literary Artifacts [1]     I.    The girdle has a long, lon...
17 Aug 2022

B is for ... Baudelaire, Bataille, Barthes, and Baudrillard

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B is for ...  Baudelaire, Bataille, Barthes, and Baudrillard     There are many French things that I love beginning with the letter B - from...