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What Contretemps?
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By Christian Martius. An aggregate of thoughts, projects and writing. Sunday, 10 October 2010. It’s been a decade since Kid A. Was unleashed but I’m caught between the desire to say something about it here, the danger of repeating what everyone else says about it, not wanting to add just another review to the legion of pieces written about Radiohead. Is my favourite album. Maybe it’s because Kid A. Was excruciating, that the songs had a reassuring therapeutic quality that tempered the personal experience...
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What Contretemps?: Another Green World
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By Christian Martius. An aggregate of thoughts, projects and writing. Tuesday, 30 June 2015. Photograph by Dan Browne. My earliest memory is of that grass. I remember feeling lost and alone in a field and the blades enveloping my tiny body, blocking out the sun and trapping me in a green tendril embrace that mocked the blue behind it. That grass made me feel. Lost and alone than I already was, but it was never malevolent, it just seemed to indifferently reflect my status. View my complete profile. The Ma...
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What Contretemps?
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By Christian Martius. An aggregate of thoughts, projects and writing. Monday, 19 October 2009. So much for my linear reasoning, but then again, who appreciates an album logically? Harmonia’s debut album used to be hard to get hold of. Various bad mixes have appeared as bootlegs and imports and I ended up borrowing an early version of the CD off of a friend for about a year. And Cluster’s Zuckerzeit. The synthesis of what seemed to sound modern while also coming from the past was intoxicating to my ears (...
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What Contretemps?: Louis Armstrong on the Moon
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By Christian Martius. An aggregate of thoughts, projects and writing. Friday, 24 July 2015. Louis Armstrong on the Moon. And then you are back on Planet Earth. Your gin and tonic looks flat and the man in front of you is telling you that Stanley Kubrick directed Close Encounters of the Third Kind. And you think to yourself, what a wonderful world. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Contretemps. Origin: late 17th century. Originally a fencing term, denoting a thrust made at an inopportune moment. Finding...
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What Contretemps?: Resisting Prejudice or the Non-People who Ruin Communities?
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By Christian Martius. An aggregate of thoughts, projects and writing. Saturday, 2 May 2015. Resisting Prejudice or the Non-People who Ruin Communities? This paper was accepted at the North East Modern Languages Association Convention (May 2015). In May 2014, Toronto city councillor and recent mayoral candidate Doug Ford attended a resident’s meeting to discuss the emergence of The Griffin Centre, a home for autistic children in Toronto. The Toronto Star, for example, described the event as “ugly as...
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What Contretemps?: Foucault's Las Meninas
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By Christian Martius. An aggregate of thoughts, projects and writing. Thursday, 17 February 2011. Here is an abridged (and minus citations) version of a subject I presented in class. Las Meninas. According to Foucault's analysis presents a fascinating conception of the act representation representing itself (I think) and that is why I've included my analysis here. Jonathan Rajchman, Foucault's Art of Seeing. In The History of Sexuality Volume 1. S that render our bodies static for the purpose of viewing.
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What Contretemps?
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By Christian Martius. An aggregate of thoughts, projects and writing. Saturday, 31 October 2009. Echo and the Bunnymen. 8220;This is the one for heaven, and this is the one for me.”. Album I was a teenager and in sore need of something to transport me to somewhere else, and this record was called Heaven Up Here. And it had the picture of a rain-soaked beach on it. Go figure. In those days album covers were important. More focused than Porcupine. And (obviously) harder than Ocean Rain. Its rank may depend...
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What Contretemps?: My Day as a Zombie
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By Christian Martius. An aggregate of thoughts, projects and writing. Tuesday, 13 September 2011. My Day as a Zombie. Despite merely having to lay on the ground with a machete in my head it was a pleasure to take part in this photo shoot. This is the work of Toronto photographer Chris Blanchenot. Other examples of his singular aesthetic can be found here: http:/ www.blanchenot.com/. 21 September 2011 at 21:12. Although, the zombie element is a little drowned out by the meat comb-over I am sporting.
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What Contretemps?: Photograph
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By Christian Martius. An aggregate of thoughts, projects and writing. Monday, 25 July 2011. Photograph by Chris Blanchenot. Ghosts framed in front of a ragged curtain, they smirked and gave themselves away. They would never look at you that way again; they would never look that way again for anyone. From a Vancouver Zine. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Contretemps. Origin: late 17th century. Originally a fencing term, denoting a thrust made at an inopportune moment. View my complete profile.
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What Contretemps?: Time
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By Christian Martius. An aggregate of thoughts, projects and writing. Wednesday, 4 February 2015. Illustration by Liz Laribee. 8220;Do you ever feel like you are running out of time? 8221; That was one of the first questions she asked. She also accentuated the word feel. In the sentence, as if it had more than a couple of vowels in it, which made the corners of her mouth stretch back towards her ears and her eyes squint a little. It sounded like feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel. So, I said yes. View my complete profile.