Article on Primo Levi, Humanist, by Carlin Romano
(c) The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2011
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Here, There Is a Why
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Holocaust, Italy, Literature, Primo Levi on 21 November 2011 by delclemUkraine´s last Chance?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags politics, Tomoty Snyder, Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, Yulia Tymoshenko on 19 November 2011 by delclem
An article by the renowned Yale historian Timothy Snyder
(c) New York Review of Books, 2011
Or is the choice between Yanukovych and Tymoshenko
rather the choice between the Plague and Cholera?
The “Croatian Stalingrad”, 1991 / 2011
Posted in Uncategorized with tags atrocities, battle of Vukovar, Croatia, Yugoslav Wars on 18 November 2011 by delclemExactly 20 years ago, the Slavonic city of Vukovar (aka. the “Croatian Stalingrad”) was taken by Serbian forces after three months of battle & siege, with massacres, expulsions and other human rights violations as consequences. However, this should only be the gory prelude to even more dreadful events… Continue reading
Oskar Kokoschka & his doll
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Alma Mahler, Austria, doll, fetishism, Oskar Kokoschka, Vienna on 17 November 2011 by delclem
After his breakup with Alma Mahler, Kokoschka, in deepest desperation, ordered a life-size doll from a doll-maker in Munich which should resemble Alma in every detail, and he thought it would help him console himself for the loss of his loved one. Not surprisingly, the result was disappointing: a clumsy construction of fabric and wood-wool, which Kokoschka had beheaded at a wild, orgiastic party in his atelier in Dresden, in 1919. And so he separated himself from the curse of his life, Alma, in effigy form.
Socialist architecture in Bratislava
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bratislava, Danube, Slovakia, socialist architecture on 15 November 2011 by delclem
Article (c) wieninternational.at, 2011
Andrzej Stasiuk: 9
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Andrzej Stasiuk, Literature, Poland, review, Warsaw on 10 November 2011 by delclem
A review of Stasiuk’s great Warsaw city & crime novel “9”
by Tom Tomaszewski (c) THE INDEPENDENT, 2008
Cronenberg & Mortensen do Freud
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, C. G. Jung, Canada, David Cronenberg, Fin-de-siècle, Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, Vienna, Viggo Mortensen on 7 November 2011 by delclemViggo Mortensen replaced Christoph Waltz when it came to play Sigmund Freud in David Cronenberg’s new film A Dangerous Method (2011)
> Article on “Freuds movie treatments”.
Friedrich Kittler (1943-2011)
Posted in Uncategorized with tags cultural theory, Friedrich Kittler, Germany, media theory, obituary on 28 October 2011 by delclem
Obituary for the imspiringly controversial German ex-hippie
and cultural theorist who was called “the Derrida of the media age”,
by Stuart Jeffries (c) The Guardian, 2011
“Vanished Kingdoms”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Galicia, Poland, Prussia, review, Soviet Union, Vanished Kingdoms on 25 October 2011 by delclem
Bird brain or canard?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags birds, Communism, Iron curtain on 24 October 2011 by delclem
“Birds with smaller brains, such as the goldfinch (above) have not been able to cope with the changes unleashed by the demise of Communism in eastern Europe, scientists found.” Article (c) The Telegraph, 2011
delirium clemens 