Miami Bourbaki
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| Blog Name: | Miami Bourbaki |
| Url: | http://mbourbaki.blogspot.com |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | Art, Critical discourse, Ranting |
| Description: | Can contemporary art and politics look beyond the market? |
| Popularity: | 22 Followers |
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Taken from Dial "M" for Musicology.
Taken from Dial "M" for Musicology.
Miami's urban mess
Alfredo Triff By force of habit, we live in Miami accepting the degradation of its surroundings. Urban changes take place slowly, and we may not notice them because we move around the environment as part of our daily routines. One day, we realize that beauty is gone. Miami has become a weird mix of traffic-clogged highways, strip malls, cheap “pleasant villages,” parking-lot wastelands with sparse green areas strewn in
Alfredo Triff By force of habit, we live in Miami accepting the degradation of its surroundings. Urban changes take place slowly, and we may not notice them because we move around the environment as part of our daily routines. One day, we realize that beauty is gone. Miami has become a weird mix of traffic-clogged highways, strip malls, cheap “pleasant villages,” parking-lot wastelands with sparse green areas strewn in
Fontana/Dogen
A snowy bird in the snowfieldWhere winter grass is unseenHides itself in its own figure.Verse: Dogen Zenji (Japan, 13th Century)Images: Lucio Fontana (Italy, 20th Century)
A snowy bird in the snowfieldWhere winter grass is unseenHides itself in its own figure.Verse: Dogen Zenji (Japan, 13th Century)Images: Lucio Fontana (Italy, 20th Century)
Godard's Weekend
Few movies can be as "anti-movie" as Godard's 1967 Weekend. This French version of American apocalypse may seems excessive for our bland contemporary tastes, but the movie is authentic in its exploration of the limits of film's traditional narratives. Godard's famous 7-min uncut tracking-shot of a super-traffic jam brings to mind Ophüls and Renoir, but this is more Brecht: didactic and unrepentant. How to present a believable paradigm of post-Capitalist disfuction and self-destruction? How to convey social paralysis and chaos? When civility and respect evaporate, people ar
Few movies can be as "anti-movie" as Godard's 1967 Weekend. This French version of American apocalypse may seems excessive for our bland contemporary tastes, but the movie is authentic in its exploration of the limits of film's traditional narratives. Godard's famous 7-min uncut tracking-shot of a super-traffic jam brings to mind Ophüls and Renoir, but this is more Brecht: didactic and unrepentant. How to present a believable paradigm of post-Capitalist disfuction and self-destruction? How to convey social paralysis and chaos? When civility and respect evaporate, people ar
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