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Showing posts with label baudrillard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baudrillard. 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...
17 Apr 2025

Notes on Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts (Part 1: pp. 1-74)

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Cover of the Melville House edition  (2016) [a]     I've said it before, but it's worth repeating: Maggie Nelson is one of those ver...
22 Dec 2024

The Revenge of the Mirror People

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Elissar Kanso: The Revenge of the Mirror People  (Homage to Jean Baudrillard) [1]   'Behind every reflection, every resemblance, every...
28 Sept 2024

Starving for Perfection: On the Thinspirational Figure of Karen Carpenter

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  Young America at its very best ...   Karen Carpenter (1950-1983)   "Wants to look like a star / but she takes it too far ..." [...
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16 Dec 2023

Odradek

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  "At first glance it looks like a flat star-shaped spool for thread, and indeed it does seem to have thread wound upon it; to be sure...
10 Oct 2023

It's Creepy and It's Kooky, Mysterious and Spooky: Mark Fisher's The Weird and the Eerie (Part 1)

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Front cover image from Mark Fisher's  The Weird and the Eerie (Repeater Books, 2016)     I.    Let me confess from the outset that one ...
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...