Satrapi’s Comic-Strip Memoir comes to Life-
• December 25, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in 'Persepolis', Aeolic Word pais, America & Middle East politics, Amnesty, Amnesty International, Analytical Consciousness, anthropology, anti-Muslim Kristallnacht, Anti-war, Anti-War protests, anxiety of Tehran, Apocryphal, art, art and society, Art Anthologies, Art Threat, Artforum, Artistic Genres, artists, Authenticity, autobiographical comic-strip, avant-garde cinema, Ayatollah & Khomeini, Bande Desinee, Beat Genres, Beat Literature, bibliophile, Bohemia, books, brutality of Taliban era, chadors of females in Iran, children's health, cinema, citizenship, Civil Disobedience, civil unrest, collectives, community, conspiracy against democracy, contemporary art, contemporary printmaking, Contemporary Writers, corruption, counterculture, creative writing, creativity, critical media, Cultural Shifts, culture, Demetrius Phalereus, democracy, Democracy politics, diptych prints, disparate collection of voices, dissemination of images, Docu-drama, Ephemeral Memory, Eros, European alternative culture, Exiled life, fanatical Islamists, feminism, Feminist critique/criticism, fiction vs reality, filmmakers, Foreign Film, free-speech, freedom, Freedom as Birthright, French Bourgeoisie, Fundamentalists, gender equality, global politics, Good vs Evil, government, graphic artist/art, Graphic Novel, Hellenic Knowledge, History, human rights, humanity, Hypatia, idealism, ignored genres, imposition of the veil, Independent press, Intellectual Milieu, international affairs, intolerance & superstition, Iranian Life, Iranian Revolution, Islamphobe, justice, La Societe Feudale, Laissez Faire Elite, Laissez-Faire Capitalism, left-wing intellectuals, liberation, liberty, Life&Death, Light & Darkness, Linguistics, Literary coterie, literature, Lycee Francais, Marjane Satrapi, Marxist, mass protests/demonstrations, Middle East politics, modernist women writers, Muslim extremists, Muslim feminists, nihilism, no-nonsense feminism, Novelist, oppression, Oppressive Politics, Pathos, Peace, Platonic Idealism, Pluralist Democracy, political dimensions, Political History, political themes in art, politics, Politics of Confrontation, popular culture, post-punk cult, Post-War decay, pre-post Revolution/Iran-Tehran, punk rock, pyschology, race, radical feminism, radical Islamists, religion, religious zealots, rhythmical grumbles, rules of the mullah, Shah dictatorship, social critique, symbolism, Symbolist, technology, theatre, Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century, travel, Tyranny, unjust hierarchy, vernacular modernism, Video art, visceral reactions to the veil, Voice of Dissent, war-torture-execution, Wealth vs Poverty, Word & Image, World Cinema
Tags: 'Persepolis', Abstractionism, Academia, adolescence, advocacy for freedom, alternative cinema/film, American & Middle East politics, Analytical Consciousness, Anti-war, anxiety of Tehran, art & film, Art & Society, Art Threat, Artistic Genres, artists, Authenticity, autobiographies, Bande Desinee, bibliophile. blogosphere, black & white comics, Blog, books, chadors of female/veil, children of the revolution/Tehran, civil unrest, comic strip art/novels, comic-strip movie/memoir, comic-strip portraiture, community, contemporary writers/artists, counterculture, critical analysis, critical media/press, Cultural Shifts, culture, discourse & critique, documentaries, education, enlightenment, European alternative culture, exile, family strife, fanatical Islam, feminism, film, foreign film/comic, France, Freedom as Birthright, graphic novel illustrators/writers, graphic novel style/prose, humanity, hypocrisy, imposition of the veil, international affairs, intolerance & superstition, Iranian Life, Iranian life/culture, Iranian Revolution, Islamic revolutions/fanaticism, left-wing intellectuals, life, literature, Lycee Francais, Marjane Satrapi, Marxism, nihilism, no-nonsense feminism, novels, political affiliations, political currents, Political History, political themes in art, politics, poplular culture/film, Post-War decay, pre-post revolutionary Iran, punk rock, Rebel with a Cause, rebellion, religious zealots, ridiculous regimes, rules of the mullah, secular allies, Shah dictatorship, social milieu, society, Sony Pictures, Tehran revolution, theatre, travel, unjust hierarchy, Video art, Vienna, war/tortue/execution, Wealth vs Poverty, Word & Image, World Cinema, writer
Myanmar as a Stage Prop-
• November 11, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in community, creativity, culture, Literary coterie
Tags: academic discourse, advocacy, Analytical Consciousness, Anti-war, Aung San Suu Kyi, Blog, branding of revolution, Burma crisis, China's 'String of Pearls', China-India, China-Myanmar oil & gas, civil unrest, clandestine operations, Corporate Moguls, critical media, critique, culture, Democratic Voice of Burma, editiorials, education, Ethics, foundation fraud, Free Burma, geopolitical control, geopolitical manuever, government, History, international politics, Journalism, Junta, life, Media, Myanmar, National Endowment for Democracy-NED, News, Peace Action, political hypocrisy, poverty&war, progressive politics, Realists, regime, Saffron Revolution, society, Southeast Asia, Strait of Malacca, strategic revolution, thoughts, travel, tyrannies, US led revolutions, world politics
to this…
• October 29, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in community, culture, life, Literary coterie, literature
Tags: American consumerism, American politics, anti-capitalist, anti-globalization, Anti-war, Bush cronies, cosumerism, dissent, free-speech, freedom, government, History, Iraq, justice, liberation, liberty, Media, Middle East, New Democracy Movement, News, protests, social critique, thoughts, world, writing
Literary Coterie…
• October 17, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in American Surrealism, Anti-war, artists, Asia, Beat Generation, Beat Literature, Beat Poets, books, censorship, collectives, community, contemporary art, creative writing, creativity, cultural icons, culture, democracy, disembodied poetics, emerging arts movement, experimental writing, free-speech, freedom, human rights, liberation, life, Literary coterie, literature, Modern American Poetry, Naropa Institute, pacifist consciousness, poetry, Poets/Icons, politics, publication, pyschology, Robert Duncan, San Francisco Renaissance, San Franciso artists, small press, social criticism, wide-open poetry movement, writing
Tags: 'compositional field', 'serial form', Abstract Expressionists, American Surrealism, Anti-war, Bending the Bow, emerging arts movement, Modern American Poetry, Robert Duncan, San Francisco Renaissance, War Poems
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