"I Want My Life Back"*

After a lifetime spent in opposition and (perceived self-) denial (of what?), at the moment of victory, he wants his life back. Yet the only remedy against this victim playing might be taking some responsibilty for once. Yet again, being constructive and trying to control those powers one has summoned might prove so much harder than simple destruction.



Wimp!

*Nigel Farage 

Irresponsible

Laughter

can be liberating, common and including
or patronizing, aloof and excluding

Mercury

"Sich den Schuh anziehen" literally "to put on the shoe" meaning "to take something personally"
Once there was this journalist, Paul Allen, who took a reference to Mercury by Peter Brook  quite personally and felt that was the part allotted to him and maybe his colleagues. So what is there about journalists that would link them to the god of merchants and thieves? Selling news and making them up, telling lies, scheming and then leaving the sinking ship. Who needs to play the part of the villain in any given situation? Yet there is a saving grace as Mercury was also the patron of the poets.

The Emperor's New Clothes

or what I dislike about Peter Sloterdijk.
He hardly ever explains any of his theories and establishes them by stating that some principle or the other is generally known. Introducing a sort of general 'we all' who seem to know it all - of course - and thus it would be evident that a potential enquirer does not belong or worse isn't inaugurated, probably because of lack of learning. It's a quite patronizing and manipulative attitude and this is exactly the point where Derrida praises American universities: Elaborate!



And what a flirtatious gaze at the end, but then after all he was a ladies' man. If I can believe my friend's mother - right to the end.

Der Sündenfall - The Fall Of Mankind - PS

Interesting that Roger Ebert criticises a certain kind of mercantile attitude as well. For the rest I would agree, love is not about attractiveness, though attractive people are of course nicer to watch. And bringing out some person's better side through  love is certainly better than merely watching people who are attracted to one another. I like those actors better who are able to express emotions, who make me feel like something's going on, and I do not mean this awful grimacing that some actors exhibit.

Der Sündenfall - The Fall Of Mankind

Interesting choices when it comes to the example, probably somebody pretty fond of moving images, especially the silent variant.

Robert Musil - Über die Dummheit
"...Und sobald in der Dichtung ein Mann die Augen aufschlägt, sieht er sich überdies einem kaum beschreiblichen Widerstand gegenüber, der alle Formen annehmen zu können scheint:...; sei es luftartig allgemeine, wie die Umwandlung des kritischen Urteils durch das kaufmännische, seit Gott in seiner uns schwer begreiflichen Güte die Sprache des Menschen auch den Erzeugern des Tonfilms verliehen hat..."

Robert Musil - On stupidity

"...And as soon as in poetry a man opens his eyes, he finds himself confronted with an almost indescribable antagonism, that seems capable of taking any form:...; be it aerially common, like the transformation from the critical verdict into the mercantile, since God, in his to us hardly understandable benignity, has granted the human language also to the producers of sound film..."

1937

Women

Women ;)!
I like Hans-Peter Feldmann's view a lot. There is a lot of advice that should be heeded in this interview, like the fact that art should be part of everyday life, that it might be therapeutical. And the most important that death - especially the death of the other person - is the ultimate line one shouldn't cross, it discredits a lot or everything.



And I like his idea of how and when art happens, though - and this is the funny thing - I've been always sort of critical of conceptual art.