Category Archives: Lawless

The German idea of South – high noon in the Black Forest

By admin | June 7, 2009

Spernere mundum, spernere te ipsum, spernere te sperni.
Scorn the world, scorn yourself, scorn being scorned.
St Filippo Neri quoted by Goethe
The Faustian quest
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is today the proud hero of enlightened Germany. Institutes in his name disseminate German culture around the world. And the core of this culture, Das Drama der Deutschen, is [...]

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Italy – Who wants to be South?

By admin | May 27, 2008

Sicily has long been a place for imagining the wider world.
In 3rd century BC, Archimedes developed the magic of levers to the point where he could speculate, ‘Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth.’
In 12th century Palermo, the court of King Roger II brought together the finest [...]

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From America’s Deep South…

By admin | May 11, 2008

It’s a quintessential example of south-phobia. Putting aside the issue of death penalty and international law, the magazine cover of this establishment university reinforces the image of the South as a realm beyond the law. You can include with this not only films of the South like Deliverance, but also other nightmares of southern violence [...]

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