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We are sometimes apt to think that the voices that sounded at the dawn of poetry were simpler, fresher, and more natural than ours, and that the world which the early poets looked at, and through which they walked, had a kind of poetical quality of its own, and almost without changing could pass into song. The snow lies thick now upon Olympus, and its steep scarped sides are bleak and barren, but once, we fancy, the white feet of the Muses brushed the dew from the anemones in the morning, and at evening came Apollo to sing to the shepherds in the vale. But in this we are merely lending to other ages what we desire, or think we desire, for our own.

Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

Enig med Holst her.

Vagant 2/10 er ute!

Og Vinduet forresten.

MK5 anmeldt i Morgenbladet.

«The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment» av Peter Beinhart: Nødvendig lesning om amerikanske jøders forhold til Israel.

Most of the students, in other words, were liberals, broadly defined. They had imbibed some of the defining values of American Jewish political culture: a belief in open debate, a skepticism about military force, a commitment to human rights. And in their innocence, they did not realize that they were supposed to shed those values when it came to Israel. The only kind of Zionism they found attractive was a Zionism that recognized Palestinians as deserving of dignity and capable of peace, and they were quite willing to condemn an Israeli government that did not share those beliefs. Luntz did not grasp the irony. The only kind of Zionism they found attractive was the kind that the American Jewish establishment has been working against for most of their lives.
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Morally, American Zionism is in a downward spiral. If the leaders of groups like AIPAC and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations do not change course, they will wake up one day to find a younger, Orthodox-dominated, Zionist leadership whose naked hostility to Arabs and Palestinians scares even them, and a mass of secular American Jews who range from apathetic to appalled. Saving liberal Zionism in the United States—so that American Jews can help save liberal Zionism in Israel—is the great American Jewish challenge of our age. And it starts where Luntz’s students wanted it to start: by talking frankly about Israel’s current government, by no longer averting our eyes.

Problemet med Knausgård-koden er at Tjønnelands lesning av Min kamp – i skjul – hviler på følgende spørsmål alene: «Hva er galt med denne boken?» Et olympisk utgangspunkt.

«This is not only politically correct criticism; it’s epistemologically correct criticism, ratifying the wisdom and superiority of the critic over the writer.»
Morris Dickstein, A Mirror in the Roadway

Kristin Ribes Syn anmeldt i MB.

Nationaltheatret og Vagant presenterer:

Ad hoc: Solaris korrigert + Vännerna

VUL dessa signals
da bli som gudars tekn?
VUL wi da faa old gudars
meining back?

I serien Ad hoc inviterer Nationaltheatret og Vagant til en helt spesiell kveld, i utopiens og science fiction-litteraturens tegn.

Tid: 25.05.10, 19:30. Sted: Nationaltheatrets hovedscene (salen).

For første gang fremføres Øyvind Rimbereids langdikt Solaris korrigert på teaterscenen, med fem skuespillere fra Nationaltheatrets ensemble. Fremføringen akkompagneres med videoprojeksjoner og en kjemisk prosess.

Skuespillerne som fremfører Solaris korrigert: Andrine Sæther, Anneke von der Lippe, Per Egil Aske, Tone Mostraum og Trond Brænne. Regi ved Runar Hodne.

Romfartsekspert Erik Tandberg foredrar om forestillinger om liv på Mars.

Den svenske forfatteren Lars Jakobson intervjues av Vagant-redaktør Audun Lindholm om sin nye roman, Vännerna, og sitt forhold til science fiction-tradisjonen.

Videoprojeksjon: Ivar Smedstad.

Kjemiske prosesser: Herwig Weiser

En ad hoc-løsning oppstår ved et unntakstilfelle eller under uforutsette omstendigheter. Når Nationaltheatrets hovedscene pusses opp, senkes jernteppet og scenerommet flyttes ut til publikum. Under Ad hoc, fra 15. mai til 4. juni, blir det halsbrekkende hallingkast, oljesåpedrama, trøorgel og hardingfele, klarinett og klaver, science fiction og norsk sommermusikk på egyptisk vis.

Billetter kan bestilles på http://nationaltheatret.no.

Les mer om Vännerna her og et intervju med Lars Jakobson her.

Les mer om Solaris korrigert her.

Velkommen!

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Nationaltheatret & Vagant

The War Room, en glimrende doku om den første Clinton-kampanjen. James Carville er tøff.

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