Elisabeth Bronfen: "What amazes me most is the stubborn ability to repress" (tags)
We've greatly reduced the required reading... Five short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, plus the one compulsory piece of Shakespeare from the basic course and vampire and fantasy stories. If very little is read, diversity goes out the window, too.
Déterminismes et automatismes (tags)
Médicaments psychologiques et médicaments organiques ...
Déterminismes et automatismes (tags)
Albert Camus: A Stranger No More (Book Review) (tags)
Two authors, Robert Zaretsky and Elizabeth Hawes, have resurrected Albert Camus, the late French Algerian novelist and philosopher, in their just released books. I’m recommending both of their tomes. I think their efforts contribute, in different ways, to enhancing Camus’ literary legacy. Camus’ courageous moralizing against the excesses of the ideologues of his days is timely. Let’s face it, we too live in an era where crazed warmongers are running amuck.
THE DEVIL HAS A SISTER To Shock & Roll Amsterdam Fringe Fest (tags)
September ’09 Amsterdam Fringe Festival to Present Hollywood Surrealist Playwright John Sinner Directing the World Premiere of The Devil Has A Sister American Playwright JOHN SINNER World Premiere Production "THE DEVIL HAS A SISTER" "CRITIC'S CHOICE" For Amsterdam Fringe Festival Upcoming September's Amsterdam Time Out!!!!
Los Angeles' surrealist theatre and creator John Sinner’s Theatre Revelation in the world premiere of Sinner’s theatrical extravaganza The Devil Has A Sister at the Melkweg in Amsterdam for 4 performances on the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th of September 2009. Sinner's production will bring will be a “hallucinatory” mix of gothic drama, screwball comedy, horror, violence and music hall singing and dancing to the Melkweg stage.
The Physics of the Impossible: Sci-fi tech as attainable dream or approaching nightmare (tags)
Teleportation. Force-Fields. Invisibility. Faster than light travel. Contact with alien and robotic intelligences. Are these things possible? Do we even want them? Presented in conjunction with a fund-raising AUCTION of books, autographs, sci-fi collectables, and more.
Edgar Allan Poe: A Tragic, but Talented, American Original (tags)
Edgar Allan Poe, poet, novelist and literary critic, died in 1849, age 40, under mysterious circumstances, in Baltimore, MD. The British author, Peter Ackroyd, insightfully captures the trials and tribulations of this great man of letters in his latest tome, “Poe: A Life Cut Short.” Poe invented the modern detective story and his poem, “The Raven,” is a classic in the genre. Ackroyd reveals Poe’s battle with the bottle, and adds a wrinkle: his aversion to sex!
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Call for International Antiprohibitionist Action Vienna 6th- 18th April 2003 (tags)
From underground to UPPERGROUND "A world free from prohibition: we can do it" International antiprohibitionist meeting for citizenship rights, personal liberties and freedom of therapy .
Call for international antiproibitionist action in Vienna (tags)
Meeting against United Nation's international conference for War on Drugs Vienna 6-18 April 2003