BECKETT AND MORGAN – TWO PERSPECTIVES ON POSTMODERNISM It may be that some rough beast will slouch again toward Bethlehem. It may be that some natural cataclysm, or extraterrestrial intelligence will shock the Earth into some sane planetary awareness of its destiny. I have no prophecy in me, only some slight […]
PETER BROOK AND HIS INDIA
Motto: Le théâtre est un art dont les grands achetypes existentiales doivent être mis en discussion. Je croix dans un théâtre qui est capable a perturber l’équilibre quotidien au bout de renvoyer l’être humain dans un équilibre de rapports avec TOUT : la vie et la mort, la tradition et l’universel. (Aureliu Manea, Les énergies du […]
Sports, Destruction, and Community
The Saints didn’t make it to the SuperBowl again this year. New Orleanians are used to disappointment, and sadly, we’ve also gotten used to living among the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina and the flood. While we look forward to Mardi Gras, we can’t help but wonder if Chicago fans will again engage in riotous […]
The Public Art of San Francisco
So which city in the USA has 600 murals on its streets, all available for public perusal? Well, it’s the same city that has a Cartoon Museum, a Spanish Mission dating from 1791 and a Museum of Modern Art, built on a reclaimed former industrial zone. The fact is that since the 1930’s, murals have […]
The Birthday Roda
La Plata, Argentina — A light on in the sky, the moon, glows defiantly on the steps of the Humanidades branch of the University of La Plata. The steps are littered with short slips of paper, advertisements and such for various student services, hair cuts, cell phones. It is winter in August, the air dry […]
La circoncision affecte-t-elle la sexualité ?
Un homme circoncis a-t-il une sensibilité sexuelle différente d’un autre qui possède toujours son prépuce ? Ceux qui ont été opérés suffisamment tard pour comparer la qualité de leurs rapports avant et après noteraient en général une forte baisse de leurs sensations. Toutefois, certains se disent satisfaits, ayant connu des relations sexuelles « peu harmonieuses » à […]