A Dissection Of Morbid Fantasies
What is it that makes people be attracted to the dark and the scary? Is it thanatos or are we basically dark creatures?
Noir, Postmodern, Alternative, Campy, Global
The Bone Lady Creates Art Life From Death
January 27, 2009
In many tribes, wearing bones signify your win over someone belonging to an enemy tribe. It proves to others your worth in fighting, symbolises your strength and warns against any ideas someone may have of stealing your women. Folklore is rife with stories of gravediggers and witches who chant incantations over the skull of a [...]
Star Wars: A Tale of Domination
January 27, 2009
Was Star Wars really a fight between the evil or good? Or did the evil and the good overlap each other? Perhaps, is Star Wars a representation of the desire for a unipolar world?
Yuri Toroptsov Revisits Baba Yaga’s House
January 26, 2009
Baba Yaga, known for devouring children, lived in an equally ghoulish house surrounded skulls and skeletons. Photographer Yury Toroptsov, based in Paris, sees an image of Baba Yaga's cottage in his ancestral house.
Negritude, Black Power, and Dalits of India
January 25, 2009
While slavery and oppression against Africans is long gone, Indian dalits with a similar condition have been languishing for nearly 2000 years. Now they seem to have found their voice in postmodernism and other literary movements in west.
Werner Herzog II :Encounters with Extraordinary Human Minds and Unexplored Wilderness
January 25, 2009
An insight into Herzog's vision of the precarious relationship between mankind, animals and wilderness, as represented in his documentaries.
Saadat Hassan Manto: A Forgotten Literary Voice from a Troubled Subcontinent
January 24, 2009
Manto chose to look at the uglier side of humanity and the violence within human souls.
Bianca Runge’s Water and Fish Collage
January 23, 2009
A look at Bianca Runge's Water and Fish Collection reminds one of the immensity of water bodies, which could be an allegory for the Universe.
PJ Harvey and John Parish Announce Track Details, Second Show in Paris
January 23, 2009
Track names of PJ Harvey's next album with John Parish, ‘A Woman A Man Walked By’ revealed and a second show in Paris on demand.
Africa’s Musical Soul
January 23, 2009
Africa's oppressed souls find freedom and emancipation in their music and thus, African music symbolizes the struggle for freedom and liberty all across the world.
Werner Herzog I: Darkness of the Continents and the Soul
January 23, 2009
Part one from the Werner Herzog series in which we appreciate his unique ability to weave universal darkness with the darkness in the human soul, as represented in his films.
January 28, 2009
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