klein: cats running with the pack
Like a cat running after any mouse that happens to stray within view. That first reflex, the first nature in the human being, is unavoidable and inalterable. It can be mastered, it can be conquered,...
View Articlefanon: still finding edge
…Fanon died of double pneumonia on December 6, 1961, six months before the liberation of Algeria. He was thirty-six years old. His body was flown back to Tunis with Ollie Iselin, the CIA operative, who...
View Articlehiding the antidote: no more mr. nice guy
The existence of evil in a world under divine supervision has consternated and troubled minds since the Almighty put the serpent into the garden of Eden. It is always remarkable how ostensibly calm and...
View Articlejail bird on a wire
In the state of Israel even the corruption is holy. Kosher corruption. The narrative reads something like the America in the wild and wooly days of the political mudslinging in the Mark Twain era. The...
View Articlegatekeepers
Shin Bet and the problem of evil. We are entering a new aesthetic of film where the old cops and robbers dramas as been transformed into the realm of national security and law enforcement is elevated...
View Articlecold irons bound: don’t let my people go
The Jonathan Pollard industry. There are plenty of howls and whines to let Jonathan Pollard go, as if he is some victim in Kafka story of deep injustice of the system. Stuck in the in-between space of...
View Articlewhere are the box cutters?
…Staring dumbly through the glass. At a base level, it is amoral, as interested in invoking destruction as in positing creation. There he is, in a glass cage, dreaming of the supernormal solution and...
View Articlefirst world war: hysterical tremors
No doubt we shall never understand the First World War completely. The malaise, the something sinister and strange lying beneath the prosperity of a seemingly newly minted modern age. The lust for...
View Articlekafka: shapes of things
Shapes and shadows harboring within the terrors of the modern world. Dehumanized. Alienation and isolation in all places and within every context. Like Josef K being slandered,”without his having done...
View Articlekafka: a gate made only for you
Visions that contained all the dark terrors that haunt today’s world. The interplay of shapes and shadows of the modern world in a dance with the emptiness of nihilism, the spirit of old ghettos and of...
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