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Artivist Notebook for Liveable Life.

  • What makes a tragedy?

    In The Danish Girl the hero/heroine pushes against the boundaries of body and identity. His/her death as a result of the surgery that had the purpose of shifting identity from male to female appeared to be both tragedy and fulfilment. He went into the surgery and she came out and died “happily” in the hospital…

  • Each Day is a Tree That Falls

    This is the title of a book by Gabrielle Wittkop. No, I’d not heard of it either. Neither the title nor the writer. I find an excerpt in the latest copy of the very excellent Sonofabook magazine http://www.cbeditions.com/magazine.html The book was published postumously: “…a celebratiion of death and life , Eros and Thanatos, beauty and…

  • Let’s explore that a bit more

    Thanatos, Thanatos wherefore art thou Thanatos? And for that matter WHO are you? Are you the unregenerate savagery that is always waiting to burst forth?  Yesterday I went to the movies! I saw The Danish Girl: a further adventure into gender and sexual identity. A moving account of one man/woman’s story set in the 1920/30s…

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Catastrophe Games Curator/Conductor Challenge Death and Life Stories Echo Effects feuilleton Fundamental Perversions Hitting the Potholes inequality La Bella Flora Minima Moralis Mitteleuropa Music Old Men Travelling Radical Tradition Religion Samuel Beckett Shock Treatment Songspiel The Good Life Walter Benjamin