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13 Dec 2024

What Was I Thinking? (13 December)

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Torpedo the Ark: images from posts published on  13 December (2014-2023)     Apart from 2012, 2013, 2019, 2020, and 2022, I have published a...
15 Jan 2024

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

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Cover of the Portuguese edition  (Relógio D'Água, 2022) [a]     I. The ethics of inactivity rests, according to Byung-Chul Han, on timi...
6 Nov 2023

It Was Beauty Killed the Beast

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"It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast."       I.    One of the greatest movies ever made opened in New York...
27 Oct 2023

Notes on Charlie Chaplin's Closing Speech to 'The Great Dictator'

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Charlie Chaplin as the Jewish Barber and  Adenoid Hynkel in The Great Dictator (1941)     I.    There's probably only one thing worse i...
24 May 2022

On Finding Ourselves in a State of Exception (Part 1)

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Giorgio Agamben   We will have to ask ourselves the only serious question that truly matters: where are we now?  And it is a question we sho...
10 Mar 2022

Grand Austrian Perverts 2: Egon Schiele

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Egon Schiele (1890-1918) Photo by Anton Josef Trčka (1914)   Ich bestreite nicht, Bilder erotischer Natur gemacht zu haben.  Aber sie sind ...
9 Mar 2022

Grand Austrian Perverts 1: Arthur Schnitzler

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Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931)  Photo by Ferdinand Schmutzer (c. 1912)   Ich schreibe über Liebe und Tod. Welche anderen Fächer gibt es?     ...
4 Mar 2022

Is Anything Really Worth Fighting For?

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"I know that for me, the war is wrong.  I know that, if the [Russians] wanted my little house,  I would rather give it them than fight ...
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