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can lead productive research programs, weve already invested heavily in their training. Lets not kick them out on the street because someone in Congress wants to score political points. The health of
they also depicted the new artist as someone capable of withstanding or even mastering these shocks and transforming them into instruments of political action. Appearing as they did in the newspaper
government collapsed at the end of the Great War, Berliners took notice of a placard asking “What is Dada? An art? A philosophy? A fire extinguisher? Or a state religion? Is Dada actually energy? or is it ... whimsical rogues’ gallery is one example; the political photomontages of John Heartfield are another, persisting beyond Dada as trenchant repudiation of the Third Reich. But before such a large target
delved into all manner of definitions — ideological, stylistic, formal—allowing for political and social contexts, as well as literary and philosophical considerations. Yet how Dada functioned as an art ... form, a modernist movement, or political manifestation, generally defines Dada in terms that seem to exist beyond Dada, rather than in terms of what is unique to it. Pondering the question with which
say that in our view the premises for revolution, on the cultural as well as the strictly political level, are not only ripe, they have begun to rot” (Debord and Wolman 14). 5 Debord’s definition of ... distributed at the Festum Fluxorum in Düsseldorf in February 1963. There he railed against “bourgeois sickness,” and called for a “flood and tide in art,” to be led by a cadre of “cultural, social and political
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Voltaire’s parody indicates, the modern origins of this satire emerge from a Republican critique of the ancien regime and Catholicism. By 1920, however, virtually the whole spectrum of political opinion had ... staunchest defenders of Joan’s legacy. Ultra-nationalist Charles Maurras, Far Right Republican Maurice Barrès, and proto-fascist political theorist George Sorel all aligned Joan with their causes. So did
frequently by spiritualists themselves. The prominent French spiritist11 Allan Kardec, for instance, wrote that the task of spirit mediums 11 Kardec used the term “spiritism” to distinguish his philosophy from ... theory of spiritism; in a general sense, it appertains to the spiritualist school, of which it presents one of the phases. It is for this reason that we have inscribed the words Spiritualist Philosophy on
importance of images of the human figure in the Dada movement. Explaining that Dada’s bodies occupy not only a physical reality, but a social and political reality, Adamowicz examines how the body in Dada art ... becomes the locus of questioning, eroding, or subverting social conventions and dominant political ideology in post-World War I Europe. Aesthetic and philosophical challenges posed by Dada include, but are
political tendencies (democratic, nationalistic, feminist, regionalistic, postcolonial or whatever) on offer. (Ferguson 180) Despite the best intentions, it is challenging to effectively situate artworks ... ancestry, which, in turn, is indebted to the Enlightenment’s investment in the taxonomy and commodification of secular unknowns. One of the political tendencies mentioned above is nationalism, and London’s
. The most readily and widely recognizable is the mid-nineteenth century confrontation between the socio-economic and political theses of Proudhon’s Philosophie de la misère (The Philosophy of Misery ... , ‘misery’ standing here for ‘poverty’) and Marx’s Misère de la philosophie (translated as The Poverty of Philosophy). The second is Breton’s 1932 tract Misère de la poésie, where the leading figure of the
a leper.’ If Fondane never joined any literary or political movement, and never subscribed to any philosophical or ideological movement, he nevertheless stayed attentive to that which he saw as ... innovative. He was better positioned than anyone else to grasp the new values in the visual arts, literature, philosophy, and even science. After all, he was among the first to praise the work of Proust
consortium projects turned out well because I honestly found the interactions fruitful instead of an unproductive political game. Meeting senior scientists is a fantastic opportunity to learn from them and ... philosophy is always to have one foot outside of my comfort zone, because that is how I learn and develop. When I get really comfortable and I feel like I really know what I am doing, it is time for the next
revolution with that of the social one, Trost transcends Trotsky’s simpleminded political concept of “permanent revolution” applied to Soviet Communism, raising it to a level relevant even in the context of a ... studies, from Maurice Nadeau’s history of the movement to Alquié’s Philosophy of Surrealism (to mention only two of the “classic” ones for the benefit of the general readership), as well as many memoirs and
intercontinental exchanges, these newer interpretations contextualize prewar regional border disputes and international military rivalries. Most significantly, authors look at the brewing socio-political conflicts ... , Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire). Rather than fostering a political balance, the bloc alliances only served to agitate the existent political instabilities and to entrench cultural antagonisms (Krumeich 3
. In so doing, Breton unlocks the door to a newly emergent surrealist myth at a time of intense upheaval and casts fresh light upon a shifting cultural and political context. Arcanum 17 has been read by ... philosophies […] and ancient myths, as he confronted both the precarious quality of the human condition and the dire political situation of the time” (Arcanum 8–9). Similarly, Mark Polizzotti has seen Breton’s
literary field but also philosophy and the political world. It buttressed Rimbaud’s Illuminations, and formed the basis for subsequent avant-gardes, such as simultaneism, cubism, futurism, and surrealism. It ... cultures of virulent microbes in laboratories, were already experimenting on a small scale with a number of the political, ideological, and cultural dramas that the European continent would see produced on
looking for a straightforward pure sober unique force we are looking for nothing we affirm the vitality of every instant the ant-philosophy of spontaneous acrobatics” (Tzara “Proclamation” 16). What should ... this negativity in the presuppositions of cultural activity. Foster takes the task to be, against both the reduction of Dada to its objects and its marginalization as a perceived political failure, to
type of newspaper. national, liberal broadsheet (see Olischewski 172-78, 142-45, 98-110).9 It cannot be said therefore that the newspapers share a common political outlook. The newspapers, moreover ... Communist Party on the day of its founding on 31 December 1918. 7). On 24 February 1920, the day of the presentation of the political program of the National Socialist Party (NSDAP), Baader connected this
