Archive for Paris
Street Art
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Burka, gender, Islam, NiqaBitch, Paris, Performance art, street art, women on 4 June 2013 by delclemIntelligent French street performance that undermines xenophobic as well as fundamentalist views of the “Muslim woman”. We’d urgently need some of those in Central Europe…
International Exhibition Incident
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, controversy, De l'Allemagne, exhibition, France, Germany, Louvre, Madame de Stael, Nationalism, Paris, review on 30 April 2013 by delclem
New tensions between EU pillars Germany and France fought in the cultural field? De L’Allemagne, “an exhibition of art in the Louvre has provoked fury in Germany for portraying the country as a dark and dangerous neighbour – has it ignored key movements deliberately, or is it all a matter of taste?”
photo: detail from Max Beckmann’s The Hell of Birds (c) The Louvre
>full text (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
What is a mother tongue?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Elias Canetti, Franz Kafka, Fritz Mauthner, Jacques Le Rider, language, mother tongue, Paris, s, Vienna on 12 May 2012 by delclem
Prof Jacques Le Rider on Fritz Mauthner, Franz Kafka, and Elias Canetti.
Lecture during the symposium Languages other than mine, May 2012
Video (c) College de France, May 2012
Paris, 1940-44: “one big romp”?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags France, Germany, National Socialism, occupation, Paris, sexual liberation, World War Two on 4 October 2011 by delclem
“A new book which suggests that the German occupation of France encouraged the sexual liberation of women has shocked a country still struggling to come to terms with its troubled history of collaboration with the Nazis.” >> READ MORE
(c) Patrick Buisson & The Sunday Times, 2008/2011
delirium clemens 