June 2010
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something isn’t right
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May 2010
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If a man had handed a metallic speculum to Democritus of Abdera, and told him to look at his face in it while his heart was beating thirty or forty times, promising that one of the films his face was shedding should stick there, so that neither he, nor it, nor anybody should forget what manner of man he was, the Laughing Philosopher would probably have vindicated his claim to his title by an...
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“Middle class, middle man, incapable of great virtue or great vice: and there would be nothing wrong with that if only he would be willing to remain as such; but when his childlike or feminine tendency to camouflage pushes him to dream of grandeur, honours, and thus riches, which he cannot achieve honestly with his own ‘second-rate’ powers, then the average man compensates with...
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April 2010
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fiery furnaces ‘chris michaels’
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March 2010
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The Melancholy and Mystery of a Street is rife with premonition of the years to follow. The shadow girl can be easily understood as typical of post-Nietzschean humanity, playing childish games in blissful ignorance of what God’s death will bring—the unknown specter, propagating in through its aether; a spurious, Enlightenment-derived city space.
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albert renger-patzsch ‘street in Essen at the train station’
giorgio de chirico ‘melancholy and mystery of a street
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