The series plays with questions of the gaze, and looks to the intersection between both the history of women's self-portraiture and today's selfie culture, as well as confessional writing and status updates.
Ben's on Paste's list primarily for his Facebook statuses, these confessional and cathartic displays of emotion that both hilariously challenge the innocuous nature of the medium and make the generally private act of grieving public: "i used to deal weed in college," reads one, "but now i'm just dealing with my dad's death".
In 2006, the band, which had lingered in the shadow of similar but more popular acts like Korn and the Deftones, finally moved beyond cult status with the breakthrough single "Hate Me," a confessional song that opens with a voice mail message from Mr. Furstenfeld's mother, checking in to make sure he has taken his medication.
As socioeconomic alienation increasingly began to intersect with confessional grievances, and as the Palestinian presence in Lebanon began to essentially acquire the status of a "state within a state," Lebanon's delicate political balance began to unravel.
He toys with their lives as if seeking to dominate them, to vampirize their experience, their talent, and even their status — all of which lies in stark contrast with the self-revealing, self-deprecating, confessional power of Godard's films as well as Wiazemsky's memoirs and performances.
Today, every Lebanese confessional group, whether Shia, Sunni, Maronite Christian or Druze, has a former leader who has achieved a near sanctified status after an assassination or a "disappearance", as in the case of Musa Sadr, a Shia leader who vanished on a visit to Colonel Gadafy's Libya in 1978.
The Article 17 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union recognises the "status under national law of churches and religious associations" as well as that of "philosophical and non-confessional organisations".
My work is a confessional".
But they're not confessional".
