Tag Archives: Andrew Potter

status: enduring symbols

…Actually, we are living not so much in a status system as in the wreckage of one, a storeroom full of broken monuments; for the process of destroying status is self-destructive, and ruins each new idol that it raises. Once … Continue reading

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un-wreckable status system

The widespread image of a conformist America clinging to ladders of caste, through social class is oddly belied and reinforced by the symbols of prestige that wear out, decline in power, and are then replaced, starting a new cycle of … Continue reading

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planet of the apeing

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

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the new seekers

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

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the non-conforming rebel reactionary

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

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on thin ice with the mighty quinn

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

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dissent building: toy stories

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

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don’t mess with the holy fool

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

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air supply

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

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the great white hope

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

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