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By: Investigation- Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl « Pinarr

Investigation- Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl « Pinarr — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:30:02 +0000

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By: Roland Graz

Roland Graz — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:03:46 +0000

Hy, “wer schweigt, ist schuldig” this applys to any sort and time of crime: within ones own family, friends, job, culture, religion, weltanschauung. How to deal with the rethoric and arts, Naziideology parcticed? I look at the Wiener Kreis for science, the Wiener Gruppe for poetry, the Wiener Aktionismus for art. Here I find answers for the scizophren attitudes which ruled and still rule the psyche of my own family, my own culture with all its segments: religion, sexuality, violence, bodyawareness, consciousness, rethoric and emotional behaviour since generations. How to break this? Digging deeper into humans existence, ripping off any kind of decoration, in language, in art. Otherwise I remain at the ded-end-road. Roland

By: Mathias

Mathias — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:27:40 +0000

I’ve heard that one of Adorno’s answers to the question of how to write poetry after Auschwitz, was “Like Beckett”. Which sounds plausible. Beckett’s poems are suitably grotesque, they often deal with distorted bodies, and an almost Dante-esque horror is often present. Beckett as poet was great, Hitler’s little poem above has got nothing on him!