An Interpretation of the The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskóv Walter Benjamin begins The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskóv with a pang of nostalgia for the extinct practice of storytelling: “the storyteller in his living immediacy is by no means a present force. He has already become something remote … Continue reading The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskóv
Introduction to ‘By The Fireside’ Walter Benjamin’s review of The Old Wives’ Tale (1908) by Arnold Bennett was written in Ibiza in April–May 1933. Benjamin had left Berlin for good three weeks after the Reichstag fire, travelling via Paris and Barcelona. ‘The German atmosphere in which you look first at people’s lapels, and after that usually do … Continue reading By The Fireside – Walter Benjamin
The Polish composer Henryk Górecki used to be a leader of the Eastern European avant-guard, but in the early 1960s he began a slide into obscurity from which he is just now emerging. Górecki was born in 1933, which makes him the same age as his vastly more famous countryman Krzysztof Penderecki. Górecki and Penderecki entered the international scene via the … Continue reading Górecki & Holy Minimalism
The Cinema of Transgression Manifesto We who have violated the laws, commands and duties of the avant-garde; i.e. to bore, tranquilize and obfuscate through a fluke process dictated by practical convenience stand guilty as charged. We openly renounce and reject the entrenched academic snobbery which erected a monument to laziness known as structuralism and … Continue reading The Cinema of Transgression
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One of the remarkable features of the “first glance” impression is that it can be taken as personification of common sense, i.e. opposite of carelessness in a perception. The first glance, as if, “believes” that it registers a stable and basic world, it seems realistic, rooted in human eyes, a kind of an experienced playmate … Continue reading Edgar Degas – Portrait of Diego Martelli
At 74 years old, Jacques Derrida, world-renowned philosopher, pursues his intellectual journey with a singular intensity even as he confronts serious illness. At his home in Ris-Orangis, a suburb of Paris, he talks to Le Monde about his work, his plans, and his legacy. Since the summer for 2003 you’ve been everywhere. You’ve not only … Continue reading I am at war with myself
Az utolsó farkas Translated from Hungarian by George Szirtes There he was, laughing, but in trying to laugh in a more abandoned manner he had become preoccupied with the question of whether there was any difference at all between the burden of futility on the one hand and the burden of scorn on the other … Continue reading The Last Wolf – László Krasznahorkai
PAINTING We have spoken of Art while making use of the example of painting. Let us now speak of painting while making use of what we have said about Art. Each of the senses has its art. Painting is the Art of the sense of sight. One sees space and surface. … Continue reading The Concrete Paintings of Kandinsky by Alexandre Kojève – Part II. PAINTING
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