"Marie Antoinette, he said, was kind and bountiful to individuals, and nothing like her caricatures. Yet, as de Feydeau puts it, 'her subjects were creatures of fiction to her.' One had to distinguish between the woman and the Queen, he concluded, as 'every monarchy was, by nature, tyrannical.' This was his paraphrase of Saint-Just’s famous dictum: 'No one reigns innocently.' But what was true of the Queen was also true of her alchemist. He recognized the humanity of Marie Antoinette but categorically despised a whole class."
In Memoriam
- Spirit d'escalier -- in memory of Theresa Duncan
- Walk Between the Raindrops
- Terri Phillips
- Eric Dyer
- The Lovely Theresa by Baron Von Luxxury
- Memories Of Theresa Tumblr
- In a Land of 90's Barbieland Wreckage Chop Suey Got Everything Right
- Memorial Film
This film was shown at a memorial for Theresa in New York, December 2007. A special thanks to Wilbur King for the use of clips from his film “Charlotte Goes Swimming” and Raymond Doherty, editor.
Worthy of Mention
Spoon: Girls Can Tell
This is a great, understated album that merits repeated plays. Spoon have made a literate, rocking, breakthrough record that occupies a funny place--the songs are not unconventional, per se, yet they're somehow really special. Girls Can Tell displays the emotional resonance and big rock power of, say, Thin Lizzy and Mott the Hoople; the sonically referential, indie-rock smarts of a band like Versus; and amazing hooks that recall Colin Blunstone of the Zombies. Like Jennyanykind, Moviola, and the Lilys, this Austin, Texas, trio has chosen to work on perfecting their craft without paying much heed to mainstream or trends. In spite of (but mostly because of) wrenching breakup-centered lyrical material delivered in a very real, matter-of-fact way, Girls Can Tell is one of those life-affirming pop albums you know you'll return to in years to come. --Mike McGonigal (*****)
Books
Michael Hardt: Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
Empire (2000)—the surprise hit that made its term for U.S global hegemony stick and presciently set the agenda for post–9/11 political theory on the left—was written by this same somewhat unlikely duo: Hardt, an American political scientist at Duke University, and Negri, a former Italian parliament member and political exile, trained political scientist and sometime inmate of Rome's Rebibbia prison. This book follows up on Empire's promise of imagining a full-blown global democracy. Though the authors admit that they can't provide the final means for bringing that entity about (or the forms for maintaining it), the book is rich in ideas and agitational ends. The "multitude" is Hardt and Negri's term for the earth's six billion increasingly networked citizens, an enormous potential force for "the destruction of sovereignty in favor of democracy." The middle section on the nature of that multitude is bookended by two others. The first describes the situation in which the multitude finds itself: "permanent war." The last grounds demands for and historical precursors of global democracy. Written for activists to provide a solid goal (with digressions into history and theory) toward which protest actions might move, this timely book brings together myriad loose strands of far left thinking with clarity, measured reasoning and humor, major accomplishments in and of themselves. (****)
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- tinydiagram
- The Miighty Flashlight
- the margot tenenbaum appreciation page.
- The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit
- terrain vague
- Orcinus: Spyhopping The Right
- moss > THE DAILY NEW
- Metro Times Detroit
- MAGPIE
- Glenn O'Brien For GQ and Details
- Erik Davis [ TECHGNOSIS ]
- DirtyDirtyDancing: London Club Photography
- Dirty Beloved
- Current Phase Of The Moon
- Biblioparfum : Bibliographie sur les parfums
- Band Of Outsiders
- Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate
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Words Of Wisdom
- "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." -- 2 Corinthians (3:17)
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