The late Austrian British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein spent the
last years of his life partly in Ireland. >chronicle >article
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Wittgenstein in Ireland
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Great Britain, Ireland, Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosophy, UK on 21 October 2012 by delclemEric Hobsbawm 1917-2012
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Eric Hobsbawm, Germany, Great Britain, historiography, history, Marxism, obituary on 3 October 2012 by delclem
“The British Marxist historian (with Central European roots) reclaimed and popularised the value of popular culture – something so integral to our lives
today it seems bizarre it was ever denigrated.” >Arts Blog entry
>Obituary Hobsbawm
>Panel: the Hobsbwam legacy
(with Niall Ferguson, David Priestland, Catherine Merridale & Roy Foster)
All texts (c) THE GUARDIAN 2012
Olypmic stereotyping
Posted in Uncategorized with tags England, Great Britain, Stereotyping on 28 July 2012 by delclem
London 2012: A 12-part guide to the UK in 212 words each by Jon Kelly & Husain Husaini >full text (c) BBC News Magazine, 2012
Biting (Sex?) Appeal
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Dracula, Great Britain, Ireland, Romania, Stoker, Transylvania, Vampire on 20 April 2012 by delclem
20 April 1912 was not only the 23rd birthday of an unknown wanna-be named Hitler; it was also the day when Bram Stoker, author of the immortal Dracula novel, died. > GERMAN TEXT VERSION
“This is the textbook of vampirism, but the journalist Bram Stoker has turned it into a typewriter ad,” wrote the Austrian Alfred Kubin, himself a master of uncanny art, in a letter full of contempt in 1915. He has not been the only critic since trying to desecrate the tomb of the Anglo-Irish author. However, this has done little damage to the undead popularity of the literary work in question: Dracula (1897), apart from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) probably the most successful undead monster of world literature; a novel that has never been out of print in its more than 110 years on the book market.
“Naked Glory”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, exhibition, Great Britain, Lucian Freud, painting on 15 February 2012 by delclem
The British Schindler
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Czechoslovakia, Fim, Great Britain, Holocaust, Joe Schlesinger, Nicholas Winton, Schindler on 27 January 2012 by delclem“In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Sir Nicholas Winton was preparing to take a vacation when he received a call from a friend who told him that he was leaving for Prague and needed his help. (…) Winton decided to take action and by September 1939, he managed to arrange visas and admission to British families for nearly 700 Central European mostly Jewish children. (…) Fifty years later, his wife found a scrapbook full of documents and transport plans….
Joe Schlesinger, a CBC reporter and one of the rescued children, is the guide in the documentary who presents not only how Winton’s act changed his life, but also how it continues to influence the lives of thousands of others worldwide.”
(on the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day 2012)
The march of the neoliberals
Posted in Uncategorized with tags cultural theory, Great Britain, neoliberalism, Stuart Hall on 14 September 2011 by delclem
One of the founding fathers of cultural theory looks at
the rapid advance of that ideology & asks: can it be reversed?
Article by Stuart Hall (c) The Guardian, 2011
Mario Vargas Llosa on (Sir) Roger Casement
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Colonialism, Great Britain, Ireland, Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, review, Roger Casement on 18 October 2010 by delclem
In his novel El sueño del celta (“The Dream of the Celt”), the Peruvian Nobel winner Vargas Llosa finds perfect protagonist in the gay British consul and later Irish rebel, the agent and later crown witness of Belgian & British colonialism.
Article (c) The Guardian, 2010
delirium clemens 