January 2010
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Wu-Tang's RZA, Eli Roth and a Kung Fu Movie →
RZA is apparently working with Eli Roth on a Kung Fu movie after studying the work of Quentin Tarantino.
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Unexpected Consequences for Hamburg's City... →
Hamburg officials attempt to gentrify the city in order to attract the “creative class,” a term coined by a popular urban planning guru. Artists go to Hamburg in order to oppose the process of gentrification. Everyone involved seems to be wondering how successful they’ve been in achieving their respective goals.
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William Burroughs's Stuff on The Morning News →
A photographic and interview-ific look at an aspect of Burroughs’ life that I wasn’t formerly aware of - one of his later living spaces that has been preserved as he left it for some dozen years. I’m oh so tempted to search out the books pictured here that Burroughs had in one of his last places of residence.*
*By here I mean in the article. I used to mean in this post, but the...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS AND CO. (Part 2 of 2)
To begin my project, I bought Burroughs’ 1953 novel Junky and then let it sit on a shelf for a while. I have just recently read it, and was then faced with a decision. I wanted to read all of Burroughs’ novels in order, but I did not know whether to read them in the order that they were written or in the order that they were published. To read them in the order that they were written, I would have...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS AND CO. (Part 1 of 2)
Works Referenced:
Jorge Luis Borges – Labyrinths (1962, 2007 edition)
William S. Burroughs – Junky (1953, 2003 edition)
William S. Burroughs – Naked Lunch (1959)
William S. Burroughs – Queer (written 1951-3, published 1985)
William S. Burroughs - Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader (1998)
William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac – And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (written 1945,...
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THOUGHTS ON BOOKS BY SLAVOJ ZIZEK THAT I SHOULD...
Richard Wagner had made some appearances in Zizek’s writings that I had read previously, including The Parallax View and In Defense of Lost Causes. Wagner had also been discussed in some of the shorter selections included in the collection Interrogating the Real. I felt that I had some idea of what Zizek might argue about Wagner, but I had mixed feelings about reading what Zizek thought about...
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THOUGHTS ON BOOKS BY SLAVOJ ZIZEK THAT I SHOULD...
A digression into my history of reading Zizek seems to be necessary here in order for the following to be intelligible. I have read roughly a dozen Zizek texts over the past three and a half years, starting due to a suggestion and free book (The Fragile Absolute) from one of my pastors, of all people. An important note to my reading of Zizek is that I seem to have skillfully skipped over what have...
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THOUGHTS ON BOOKS BY SLAVOJ ZIZEK THAT I SHOULD...
I wrote some of the following while listening to the “Postmodern Rock Mix” that the Genius feature of my Itunes account had cooked up. What “Postmodern Rock” means, I have no idea.
Works Referenced:
Theodor Adorno –In Search of Wagner (2009 edition)
Slavoj Zizek – In Defense of Lost Causes (2008)
Slavoj Zizek – Interrogating the Real (2007)
Slavoj Zizek – The Fragile Absolute (2000)
Slavoj...
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New Orleans, Louisana
All you masses who salivate at the thought of another post here at Fickle Dawn are not going to have to panic for the next week, even though I will be tragically separated from my laptop. I am going to New Orleans for that amount of time with some of the college-age people and a few adults from my church. We’ve teamed up with Habitat for Humanity to build some houses for people who are still...