Art
published by Retort Magazine, on August 18th, 2010
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Artists Statement
Pennies is a short piece of experimental writing which is a form of montage allegorical sketch that draws upon the research of Walter Benjamin on the allegorical poetics of Charles Baudelaire. I have juxtaposed the sacred and the profane in a manner that I think captures some of the elements of Benjamin’s poetic experiments on poetics, Marxism, and theology while linguistically unraveling one of the more romantic quotations from the structuralist Marxist Louis Althusser. My use of allegory is very critical of the deradicalized versions allegory developed under postmodernism and is part of a research project I’ve undertaken over the last several years to, in part, restore the full critical resonance of Baudelaire’s and Benjamin’s concept of allegory for the twenty-first century.
Pennies by David_Brian_Howard
Poetry
published by Retort Magazine, on August 12th, 2010
EXCLUSIVE TO RETORT – A Selection from
LES FLEURS DU MAL by Charles Baudelaire translated by Jim Nisbet
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Photography
published by Retort Magazine, on August 11th, 2010
Essay
published by Retort Magazine, on August 11th, 2010
Rex Fairburn
New Zealand Poet, Polemicist and Art Critic
by K R Bolton
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A R D (Rex) Fairburn was a central figure in the Golden Age of New Zealand culture. This was the period between the world wars, when an incipient nativist literary and artistic movement started to emerge that was part of the European cultural stream, but was inspired by the New Zealand landscape and the New Zealand people, and was overcoming colonial mimicking.
Fairburn was born in 1904 in modest though middle class circumstances. He was proud of being a fourth generation New Zealander related to the missionary Colenso.
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Exposed
published by Retort Magazine, on July 18th, 2010
Exposed
published by Retort Magazine, on July 13th, 2010
The title is a parody of the fact that the government has effectively made it a felony to take pictures of oiled wildlife.
Probably the most tragic photos I have seen in quite some time – While most of these pictures have previously been published by the mainstream media – and presumably will remain publicly available – that assumption is not 100% certain. By way of analogy, the government sometimes reclassifies as top secret information which was previously declassified.
More importantly, while some of these photos have been widely seen, most have not, and I have never seen them rounded up in a single page before.
See them at Washington’s Blog
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