Tag Archives: Andrew Potter

planet of the apeing

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Dave

Interesting article on Andrew Potter, who with Joseph Heath wrote Rebel Sell. Potter’s ideas are not unique or original but they are placed within the context of contemporary pop culture in an easy to grasp everyperson’s manner that strip out … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Andrew Potter, David Mcraney, Herbert Marcuse, joseph heath, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Mitt Romney 2012, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, Toulouse-Lautrec, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

the new seekers

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Dave

Aldous Huxley is to the negative or anti-utopia what Plato and Sir Thomas More combined are to the positive. We are apt to be less familiar with the Republic’s guardians and Utopia’s jeweled toys than we are with Brave New … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Andrew Potter, c.m. kornbluth, Frederick Pohl, George Orwell, Herbert Marcuse, joseph heath, Karl Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Noam Chomsky, Paul Goodman, Ray Bradbury, Sir Thomas More, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor Adorno, William Tenn | Leave a comment

the non-conforming rebel reactionary

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Dave

The mistake of confusing authenticity and populism. The kind of sentimental lynch-mob mentality that desires to wind back the clock in a misbegotten assumption of returning to a form of innocence, of untarnished simplicity that characterized America; a kind of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andrew Potter, david reevely Ottawa citizen, george tooker, irving norman, joseph heath rebel sell, kate heartfield ottawa citizen, Larry O'Brien Ottawa mayor, Newt Gingrich, Raphael Soyer, Rob Ford Toronto mayor | Leave a comment

on thin ice with the mighty quinn

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Dave

We pine for authenticity. The real . The genuine, wanting to graft ourselves onto it as part of an expression of our individuality. Or do we? It has to conform to our idea of it. Rousseau’s Noble Savage has to … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andrew Potter, Anthony Quinn, Antonin Artaud, battle of sitka, Bob Dylan, franz boas, hans ruesch, james ross and awack, James ross inuit, Jared Diamond, Jean Jacques Rousseau, louis s. glanzman, Lucien m. turner, manfred mann the mighty quinn, Nicholas Wade, steven a. leblanc, suzuki sled commercial, the savage innocents 1959 | 1 Comment

dissent building: toy stories

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Dave

Consumerism is unlikely to be defeated; there will be no white knight, no Saint George to slay the dragon and pitch its corpse into the center of the earth for fifty generations. Consumerism is a product of consumer behavior and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alexander McQueen, Andrew Potter, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Feminist frequency, House of Givenchy, joseph heath rebel sell, Kurt Cobain, LEGO friends, LEGO toys sexism, rebellious pixels, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen | Leave a comment

don’t mess with the holy fool

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Dave

Regarded as a kind of holy fool who could stretch time and space while spitting on Isaac Newton’s cape and could scare off Voltaire with flashing visions of nihilistic revelry,a positive nihilism, a kind of messianic negation of the mundane … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alan moore, Albert Einstein, Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Potter, Billy Bragg, Donald Trump, G.K. Chesterton, jim jarmusch, john michell, John Milton Paradise Lost, mike goode, Slavoj Zizek, Terry Eagleton, todd mcfarlaine, W.B. Yeats, William Blake | Leave a comment

air supply

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Dave

Culture jamming. Sometimes the artwork and aesthetics of culture jammers is of such ingenious quality that it could appear as if the anti-corporate dissent of the activists is actually produced by the offending companies themselves. That is, ostensible anti-consumerist messages … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged alex e. proimos, Andrew Potter, eviair, evian mineral air, Jonathan McIntosh, joseph heath rebel sell, poland spring bottled air, poland spring mineral water, poland spring water meme, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen | Leave a comment

the great white hope

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Dave

The shitty nothingness of it all. Shit as pure nothingness. The essence of the empty and void.Nothingness. A man eager to give society, the political body, a political enema to purge it of all its shit. Politics as substitute shit. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Andres Serrano, Andrew Potter, Canada Goose Coats, justin trudeau, Marcel Duchamp, megan leslie NDP, Mel Brooks, PETA, peter kent environment minister, Piero Manzoni, sam rosenfeld, senator brazeau, senator patrick brazeau | Leave a comment

forward to the past

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Dave

Does authenticity have anything to do with the truth or are we conflating an idealized sense of self with a public perception of populism? Today, the mantra among the political pundits is that authenticity serves as the means to gain … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged american gothic, Andrew Potter, Grant Wood American Gothic, harry truman turnip day, Helen Levitt photography, Jared Diamond, joe klein, marshall brain, martin ford, Michael Ferguson, Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, Ron Paul | Leave a comment

the too real to be true deal

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Dave

We seem to be on the verge of a new era of populism, a search for someone to rise up on behalf of the little guy and gal like- Obama was rhetorically pining to do before getting knock-kneed- and defying … Continue reading →