Well, ya maybe -- or if not, this guy who wrote a book I found in the prison library probably knows. It's entitled
Interrogating the Real, and the guy who wrote it is named Slavoj Žižek. This wonderful -- and challenging -- book is a series of essays by Slavoj Zizek, Professor of Cultural Studies at the Univerza v Ljubljani, Slovena and Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research in NYC. (I'd like to go there some time...look around a bit.)
I just want to quote a smallish part of the beginning of the Author's Preface, sub-titled "The Inhuman". It's really something far beyond the stuff in any other book I've read, or in magazines, newspapers, journals I can get my hands on. Tell me what you all think, if you want. As I said, I think it's related to those two links, 7elaine, and "everybody".
"In the first half of 2003 , I came across two remarkable stories that were reported in the media. A Spanish art historian has uncovered the first use of modern art as a deliberate form of torture. Kandinski and Klee, as well as Buñuel and
Dalí, were the inspiration behind a series of secret cells and torture chambers built in Barcelona in 1938; these so-called 'coloured cells' were the work of the French anarchist Alphonse Laurencic (a
Slovene family name!), whose 'psychotechnic' torture was his contribution to the fight against Fanco's forces." (PAPERBACK edition, 2006, CONTINUUM, London and New York, editorial material, selection and translation, Rex Butler and Scott Stephens)
There's Strange Tales that aren't fictional. Regrettably; and how well I know it, too. [More later, when i can... --Ciao, WP]
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I deemed this post worthy of a longer excerpt, so --
HERE -- 't'is from Google Books, your well-quoted passage, much protracted, in
Slavoj Žižek: a little piece of the real by Matthew Sharpe. // Nice, WyomingPen! --MW
