The Tragedy and Delusion of KONY 2012′s Jason Russell

Posted by Nick Taussig on Mar 22, 2012 in Africa, Blog, Featured_home, Gorilla Guerrilla, Human Interest, Non-Fiction, The Paradoxical, Uncategorized | 3 comments

Jason Russell’s KONY 2012 film is indeed very powerful, playing perfectly to an idealistic youth with its simplistic, gung-ho Hollywood sentiment: that human evil can be eradicated and the world finally made good if only Joseph Kony, the Ugandan warlord, is at last captured and punished. And this youth, by virtue of their youth – believing that humanity can be transformed – have responded in their millions, the film mobilising them to rise up and demand global action. The...

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Hirst and Emin: Artists of Deceit

Posted by Nick Taussig on Mar 14, 2012 in Art, Avant-garde, Blog, Featured_home, Human Interest, The Paradoxical | 5 comments

I have a dear friend – an immensely gifted writer and artist – who not only produces wonderful work of real craft and quality but is faithful to it also. He is his art; his art him. What he creates reflects his character, no more than this, provides a window to his soul, and the soul one finds there, in each work, is perceptive, honest, probing and rich in thought and feeling. His creations can never be described as mediocre, shallow and superficial, these characteristics that define so...

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