“…with production one never knows where one is…” BERTOLT BRECHT
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Müzik, ruhun gıdası (Music, food for the soul)
‘Traversal of fantasy’ is one of the more elusive concepts of Lacanian psychoanalysis. As with the Escher-like diagrams of the Real (e.g. Mobius strip), it requires the mediation of representation to be made somewhat palpable (then again, what concept doesn’t?). Thanks to Lynch’s Lost Highway (and Zizek’s splendid interpretation of it in ‘The Art of [...]
Written by Keman Recel
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Beyond “commodity fetishism”: the Wire and the political economy of drugs
HBO series, the Wire, entered its fifth, and, unfortunately, the last season. Although I’ve wholeheartedly agreed that “the best thing ever happened to TV is Twin Peaks,” since I became an addict of the Wire, I felt the need to reconsider my allegiance. There are so many things to say about the Wire [...]
Written by C-Blok
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Is she really breaking a taboo or finally gaining her senses?
Turkey is going through hard times, rough roads and tough plays lately. It has never been easy, but now it is seemingly harder than ever to better the situation or just to get by. Turkey is suffering from a cancerous disease, one that has been neglected for too long. It is the lack of [...]
Written by tcgd
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a wine-dark sea, indeed
for me the image of the mediterranean first came into being by way of a tv commercial. we all grew up in it, but it was different, it was never simply an image then; it was something we enjoyed, like one enjoys breathing. this particular commercial featured all the charming aspects of the mediterranean fantasy; [...]
Written by fraulein montag
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something rather than nothing
herr Hitchcock,
you are the book that i’ve opened
now i have to read much moreNeedless to say, Hitchcock has been immensely inspired by Freud who in turn was secretly yet obviously inspired by Nietzsche. After watching at least half a dozen movies, Rope, Notorious, Suspicion, Mr and Mrs Smith, A Lady Vanishes, Frenzie, Rear Window, Vertigo, [...]
Written by mr reality check
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McLuhan & Zizek
I watched a very good documentary on Marshall McLuhan yesterday, McLuhan’s Wake, courtesy of Eko –you know, that subliminal kid. It is not so much the director (Kevin McMahon), however, that is to be credited for the success of the documentary as the subject matter himself. The most interesting parts of the documentary for me [...]
Written by Keman Recel
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New Music and Art: DETROIT BEIRUT
ABOUT DETROIT BEIRUT (in its own words)
Written by viola swamp
“This music comes from South Lebanon, was born in Lansing and lives in Detroit. A sound declaration. This music is rhythm for revolutions, rebellions, empowerment and progression. Through audio and images, history is projected onto the future, terrorific stereotypes are rejected, a slandered heritage is reclaimed, the ruins of [...]
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A Thanksgiving Prayer
Here’s an alternative Thanksgiving Prayer for all of us who cannot but help remember the story of Jeffrey Amherst:
“Thanks for the wild turkey and
Written by Saint ymM
the passenger pigeons, destined
to be shit out through wholesome
American guts.
Thanks for a continent to despoil
and poison.
Thanks for Indians to provide a
modicum of challenge and
danger.
Thanks for vast herds of bison to
kill and skin [...]
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39 of the 40 tricks
1.2.3…40 and tada! was an exercise in appropriating folk wisdom for high theory. Or to put it more precisely, the idea was to show how folk sayings/proverbs –ostensibly superstitious, quaint or banal– can harbor valuable insights which can only be appreciated by means of conceptual tools not typically associated with folk wisdom. In 1.2.3…40 and [...]
Written by Keman Recel
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The market of exceptions and Michael Moore’s Sicko
I saw Michael Moore’s Sicko on the last day that it was showing in Northampton. Sitting by myself in the basement of Pleasant Street Theater, I had nothing better to do before movie began than to listen to the two elderly couples ahead of me discussing what they had heard about the film, their [...]
Written by bigbadbull
