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On beauty
It is the serial killer’s responsibility to exceed in beauty every attempt by the cops or the psychologists to apprehend him, and it is always a him. He is an aesthete who, whether his victims are skinned, decapitated, defenestrated, dismembered, skewered, raped, or stewed, always admires them for their appearance, with an utterly uncultured, almost [...]
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the reality show
A theory of the contemporary theater might begin with the juxtaposition of Bertolt Brecht and the reality show. They share more in common than one would think. Indeed the reality show, which rejoices in the struggle for survival and forces the viewer to identify with the principle of selection in all its savagery, is nothing but the Brechtian drama trans- and disfigured through ideology. And [...]
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