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the major death of minor literatures: Cioran & Eliade, the setters & killers of trends / & leap-frogging world wars – genealogies of vitalism / irrationalism / Nietzscheanism

In the 1920s, youth were a rising force throughout Europe. Besides, according to Klaus Mann, “the European generation that had grown up during the First World War” was highly sensitive to the existing “moral and social crisis,” the general crisis of European values. The war and the national revolutions it

National’s Arts policy: we are the jelly; you are emerging … with some paintings by Attila Richard Lukacs by way of illustration

NATIONAL: 2008: Arts, Culture & Heritage Policy by Christopher Finlayson, Arts, Culture and Heritage 15 July 2008 ARTS, CULTURE & HERITAGE ENCOURAGING THE ARTS – ENCOURAGING OUR ARTISTS – Was Weist der Aisel von Mord, Attila Richard Lukacs, 1988 National values arts, culture, and heritage. We value them equally. We value the

>> new folk >> Jess Chambers & The Firefly Orchestra

– cover art for eponymously titled album, flipside

clear-cut for Key, says Sandra Lee: victory in Parnell for JK

There’s something to be said for a country of approximately 4 million people who want to hold a national election as if it were a US presidential race – to which at times it actually referred. Prime Minister Helen Clark in her concession speech played the ‘gracious in defeat’ role

RO = received opinion + the sympathetic magic of associativism >> meaning image referring to image in an endless gyre with the implication that thought follows the image; thus ‘It’s time for a change’ = Obama = NZ National Party campaign

* Labour + Greens = a short step to communism * Helen Clark has been in too long = it’s time for a change * a coalition headed by Helen Clark = a five-headed monster => a Clark government = a monster * Kyoto = NZ loses in the race for global trade * Labour’s foreign policy = no FTA

the ‘acceptable face’ of the incoming National Party as David Lange was the acceptable face of the fourth Labour Government, Rogernomics & economic reductionism: less government intervention in the market … while the market cannot even look after its own

In The Hot Sun Of A Christmas Day

– Recorded during his exile in London by Caetano Veloso. Veloso was jailed in Brazil for his participation in the cultural movement of protest, which was called Tropicalia, against the military regime. Let this music, from the album A Little More Blue, serve as soundtrack for the posts to follow.