{"id":205,"date":"2006-06-23T01:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T09:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2006-06-23T01:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-23T09:52:00","slug":"bhl-grass-schjeldahl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/bhl-grass-schjeldahl\/","title":{"rendered":"BHL, Grass, Schjeldahl"},"content":{"rendered":"
Via signandsight\u2019s<\/a> <\/span>weekly roundup of the weeklies, here are a few worthwhile reads:<\/p>\n

In his \u201cNotebook\u201d column in Le point, 16.06.2006 (France)<\/span><\/b><\/span>, Bernard-Henri Levy<\/b> recalls<\/a> his visit to Guantanamo<\/b> last year and demands \u2013 after the recent suicides \u2013 the \u201cimmediate closing\u201d of the prison camp. Guantanamo is \u201ccertainly not Auschwitz, and neither the number of inmates nor the conditions of their internment, nor the status of the majority in the large army of the international Jihad make it possible to turn it into an American gulag<\/b>, as the Bush-opponents, in a Pavlovian reflex, try to do.\u201d But alone the \u201cexistence of this zone of non-justice\u201d has \u201csomething deeply shocking about it, for the prisoners hopeless and for the image of the USA, disastrous<\/b>,\u201d which is \u201csimply beneath the worth of a great and powerful democracy.\u201d In addition, an immediate punishment should be meted out to the \u201cevil dunce<\/b> of a commander<\/a> who, upon hearing the news of the three suicides, could find no better reaction than to criticise them for \u2018not respecting\u2019 human life -sic!- and calling their death not an \u2018act of desperation\u2019 but an \u2018act of asymmetric war\u2019 being waged against the USA.\u201d Levy concludes that the democratic state is not to be defended with the means of a state of emergency<\/b>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe BHL\u2019s trip through the US, so wretchedly written up in his pointless non-Tocquevillian book of earlier this year, has at leastmade him see the obvious. But of coruse, even then he can\u2019t resist pontificating and fingerwagging at the left.<\/p>\n

Signandsight also notices & sums up The New Yorker\u2019s <\/span><\/b>review of MoMAS Dada show:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Dadaism <\/b>was a forerunner of the Cool<\/b>, writes<\/a> Peter Schjeldahl after a day in the MoMA show<\/a>, which originated in Paris. \u201cThose who wondered what it meant could never know. Because you had to be there, the most informative exhibits at the Modern are video-projected films, especially the delirious \u2018Entr<\/b>\u2018acte<\/b>\u2018 (1924), by Ren\u00e9 Clair and Picabia, with a score by Erik Satie<\/b>. A dancing ballerina, viewed from below through glass, turns out to be beefy and bearded. Duchamp<\/b> and Man Ray<\/b> play chess on a rooftop until a jet of water clears the board. A droll Tyrolian marksman is shot to death. His hearse breaks loose from the camel that is pulling it. Mourners follow in a wackily leaping run<\/b>, filmed in slow motion. The hearse crashes in a field. The dead man, revived, touches the mourners, who vanish.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And point to the Spiegel\u2019s<\/span> piece on G\u00fcnter Grass\u2019 relation with the Springer newsgroup:<\/p>\n

For forty years, writer<\/a> G\u00fcnter Grass<\/b> boycotted the Springer<\/a> Publishing House but recently, he met for a conversation with Springer CEO Mathias D\u00f6pfner<\/b>. Politically the two still do not see eye to eye, but D\u00f6pfner was prepared to admit that the conflicts around 1968, Rudi Dutschke and Heinrich B\u00f6ll were detrimental to both the country and his publishing house (some background<\/a>). \u201cUntil today. Through misconceptions and misguided developments in the Bundesrepublik. Through a corral if not bunker mentality at Springer. And through clich\u00e9s that hold until today.\u201d But he was not prepared to go further. \u201cGrass: \u2018What Springer did to B\u00f6ll is a disgrace for your papers. I would actually like to ask you, dear Mr. D\u00f6pfner<\/b>, to summon the courage to apologise for this in a prominent place and in clear terms.\u2019 D\u00f6pfner: \u2018Mr. Grass, having read the early foundational texts of the 68ers, all I can say is that the apology has to start there.'\u201d See our feature on \u201cThe future of journalism\u201d by Mathias D\u00f6pfner here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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