Monthly Archives: October 2016

(Art) Existence Without a World (Levinas)

Posted on October 30, 2016 by zjb

Reading Existence and Existents by Emmanuel Levinas, I stumbled across this neat little bit about art in the chapter on “Existence without a World.” This is a 1947 text, written right after the war, and before, it seems, the turn … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , | 5 Comments

Camera Lucida (Trump Rally)

Posted on October 28, 2016 by zjb

I bet we see a lot of this photograph by Nate Gowdy, of a Trump rally in Loveland, CO, on Oct. 3rd, 2016. Someone on FB said it could win a Pulitzer. It has the stuff of icon all over … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , | 2 Comments

Latent Images, Diary of a Photographer, 177 Days of Performance (Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige)

Posted on October 27, 2016 by zjb

This was at the Guggenheim a bit back. It’s about trauma, erasure and the problematic of large scale social catastrophe. The “photographs” that would have otherwise constituted the visual documentation recorded in these “books” have been effectively closed up, sealed … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Such a Nasty Woman (Miri Regev & the Intersectional Right in Israel)

Posted on October 23, 2016 by zjb

Shes’ right, of course. In comparison to her, the Israeli creative class and Jewish left, those largely Ashkenazi elites, are out maneuvered and “tight-assed.” No one knows how to play the political field like Culture Minister Miri Regev, who works at … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Nothing New Under the Sun (Apple Orchard)

Posted on October 22, 2016 by zjb

Rising this way, going that way, turning and turning. Today in the synagogue, the intermediate Shabbat of Sukkot, from Ecclesiastes chapter 1: 4A generation goes and a generation comes, but the earth endures forever. דדּוֹר הֹלֵךְ וְדוֹר בָּא וְהָאָרֶץ לְעוֹלָם עֹמָדֶת: … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , | 1 Comment

Beauty, Eros, & Natural Law (David Novak)

Posted on October 21, 2016 by zjb

Natural law as form of Jewish social ethics, rests on images of the imagination. That is almost the way David Novak defines it in Jewish Social Ethics, not as the “[deduction] of conclusions from the rules at hand but, rather, … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , | 1 Comment

Gershom Scholem Sitting in a Sukkah

Posted on October 20, 2016 by zjb

In good faith, the antinomian sits in a sukkah. Is this an expressionist or surrealist sukka? The scene is super modern. An angel lurks in the back under palm trees. Please send my way any information you have about this … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , | 2 Comments

Un/Natural Law & the Rabbis (Christine Hayes)

Posted on October 19, 2016 by zjb

Christine Hayes puts the kibosh on the notion that there is a recognition of natural law in “Judaism.” She is, of course, careful to draw her analysis closely around a circumscribed group of sources. While arguably most medieval and a … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , | 2 Comments

Bright Fog (Fall Morning)

Posted on October 14, 2016 by zjb

the views were spectral, but i was unable to catch with the camera just how bright the light was caught up in a thick mass of fog this morning on rt 81 driving south somewhere between Syracuse and Binghamton.

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged | 3 Comments

Trump Nazis Hate Media

Posted on October 13, 2016 by zjb

Jenna Johnson Retweeted Jim Acosta ‏@Acosta 2h2 hours ago A Trump supporter left behind this sign on media table in press pen. Shows swastika with word “media”

Posted in uncategorized | 1 Comment