Or - if Bobby Conn and Lenny Kravitz are twins, then WHICH ONE is the 'evil' one?
― dave q, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Interpret any 'loaded' words in any terms you wish but please define
said terms
― dave q, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Hannah Arendt: "world of appearences" gunk. (Cf. Rahel Varnhagen).
Must make her a shape-shifting Vegas chameleon ala Bowie or other
scum of that ilk.
Verdict: anti-rockist, vaudeville Vegas toe-tapper, kabuki-meets-
dreck...ala Bowie.
(Also, Bowie fancied himself a Nazi at one point; Arendt fucked a
Nazi [Heidegger].)
― J Sutcliffe, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
When Arendt wrote, in 'On Revolution'
"The history of revolutions-from the summer of 1776 in
Philadelphia and the summer of 1789 in Paris to the autumn of 1956 in
Budapest-which politically spells out the innermost story of the
modern age, could be told in a parable form as the tale of an age-old
treasure which, under the most varied circumstances, appears
abruptly, unexpectedly, and disappears again, under different
mysterious conditions, as though it were a fata morgana. There exist,
indeed, many good reasons to believe that the treasure was never a
reality but a mirage, that we deal here not with anything substantial
but with an apparition, and the treasure thus far has remained
nameless. Does something exist, not in outer space but in the world
and the affairs of men on earth, which has not even a name? Unicorns
and fairy queens seem to possess more reality than the lost treasure
of the revolutions.".
...she invented punk (well she invents Jurgen Habermas/Greil Marcus,
anyway). So I guess it depends on whether PUNK is rockist or
antirockist (going out with Heidegger = Siouxie Sioux wearing
Swastika) - which is, of course, intractable.
― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Lenny is the evil one, and Arendt is the rockist.
― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Arendt invented nothing. She simply read Merleau-Ponty (What is Life
of the Mind if not regurgitated Merleau-Ponty and, er, Heidegger?),
Benjamin, Brecht, et al.
― J Sutcliffe, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
five years pass...
man, that sutcliffe fellow was a twat and a half.
hannah arendt is CLASSIC. i've been reading "the human condition" for a few weeks, on and off, and it's astounding how much it mirrors half-formed thoughts about communities, politics, the public life, that i've had as long as i can remember but never was able to put into words. she's more akin to tocqueville, jefferson, et al, than the european crowd she's generally grouped with.
― J.D., Thursday, 28 June 2007 01:27 (eighteen years ago)
Totally agree. On Revolution is one of those books I'll take with me to the grave. But let's move this to ILE...
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 28 June 2007 01:29 (eighteen years ago)