----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Carrol Cox wrote, > > > > This "high and higher efforts" that Danto speaks of, leading to chaos, > > must owe something to Laurel and Hardy as well. And of course Chaplin's > > Modern Times. In fact to much of the great slapstick, 1915-1940. > > Yes, also constructivism and dada. As Walter Benjamin wrote: "Modernity; the > time of hell. The punishments of hell are always the newest thing going in > this domain. What is at issue is not that "the same thing happens over and > over" (much less is it a question here of eternal return), but rather that > the face of the world, the colossal head, precisely in what is newest never > alters -- that this "newest" remains, in every respect, the same...." ================================== Colossal Head -- by Los Lobos [a great cd which opens with wistful yearning about the revo, btw] (David Hidalgo/Louie Pérez) What big eyes you have What big lips you have What a nice hat I love you (Ya, ya, ya. Ya, ya, ya. Ya, ya, ya.) What you said I can't hear you (Ya, ya, ya. Ya, ya, ya. Ya, ya, ya.) (What you said) (What you said) Do the colossal head (What you said) (What you said) Do the colossal head (Ya, ya, ya. Ya, ya, ya. Ya, ya, ya.) (Ya, ya, ya. Ya, ya, ya. Ya, ya, ya.) (Ya, ya, ya. Ya, ya, ya. Ya, ya, ya.) (Ya, ya, ya. Ya, ya, ya. Ya, ya, ya.)
