Tag Archives: Andrew Potter

the fiction of them and us

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Dave

A very astute look at consumerism and what drives the spending cycle, though not everyone may agree. He debunks some long held and often cherished assumptions that have been mainstays since the Frankfurt school’s Adorno and Marcuse and proposes the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Alexander McQueen, Andrew Potter, Curt Cobain, Herbert Marcuse, joseph heath, joseph heath rebel sell, Lady Gaga, milton friedman, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler | Leave a comment

left-write-left-right….

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Dave

Take this bohemian artist, an icon of the counter-culture from the top shelf of the Czech Republic’s pre-communist era and you can concoct a recipe for bourgeois decadence and the commodification of dissent. Havel was almost the tailor made candidate … Continue reading →

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when the saints come marching in

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Dave

Friends of poverty. Suffering as a gift of god? The context for Hitchens attack on Mother Teresa was certainly sensational, down the sexual innuendo of the title Missionary Position. But, the broader context of Mother Teresa and the role charity … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Andrew Potter, arthur c. brooks, charles keating, Christopher Hitchens, Jean Baudrillard, jerry sandusky, joseph heath, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Malcolm Muggeridge, martin drolling, pierre bourdieu, Thorstein Veblen, William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Leave a comment

homespun

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Dave

no comment needed; its really the portrait of the ugly American, white upwardly mobile yuppie that you would want to feet to a pack of starving jackals. Or people so caught up in hierarchy and invidious comparison that they have … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andrew Potter, christopher caudwell, ginia bellafante, john currin art, Norman Rockwell, Paul Kane, paul kane art | Leave a comment

Occupy my coolness

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Dave

The question that could be posited is whether articles like this, writers like Naylor actually reinforce the very behavior they seek to expose; since ostensibly bringing the matter to public attention may increase the value of the one-percenters, the distinction … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andrew Potter, Ayn Rand, David Lynch, David Reisman, ginia bellafante, gustavus myers, jerome witkin, joel-peter witkin, John Singer Sargent, John Sloan, Marcel Duchamp, Muckraker, naylor crass struggle, Rick Salutin, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, tom naylor | Leave a comment

shutting out the dark area

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Dave

Holding the traumatic moment; gripping it to prevent it from bounding into the realm of the spectacle. The culture of the spectacle, dazzled, doped and duped by its connection to technology where issues are dealt with as another aspect of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged amy winehouse, Andrew Potter, Bruce Nauman, Claude Monet, eino kyla, F.Scott Fitgerald, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Ellul, Leah McLaren, Lucian Freud, paul mccarthy, Robert Redford, Stephen Marche, the great gatsby | Leave a comment

artistic terror : conceptual cowardice?

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Dave

Is Marcel Duchamp a terrorist? In a figurative sense, a weapon of mass destruction. The super-bomb/dirty bomb alchemical chain reaction where crap is turned into monetary gold. Clearly, with the ready-made, there was an initial anti-hierarchical space of thought, something … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andrew Potter, Arthur Koestler, Edouard Manet, Edward Bernays, elliott barowitz, francis p. nauman, Heinrich Hoffmann, Joseph Beuys, joseph heath rebel sell, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, mark sagof, martin gough, norman kleeblatt, Pablo Picasso, renato poggioli, robert graham sculpture, rudolf herz, sidney janis, stephen foster, thomas frank the baffler, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

get happy: fizzy irrational exuberance

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Dave

Were basically selfish individuals with varying and unpredictable levels of empathy? Ulterior purposes. The French “fine mouche.” The yoke of feudalism was tossed aside a half a millennium ago, and there’s no stopping those middle-class values that the politicians keep … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Andrew Potter, Charles Baudelaire, coca coal gnh index, coca cola happiness institute, david graeber guardian, Felix Feneon, Florine Stettheimer, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Niall Ferguson, Quentin Massys, Thorstein Veblen, tyler cowen, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

hunters and gatherers: the cannibal capitalists

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Dave

There is a certain taboo against cannibalism when times are good, and the manna on the tree is within an arm’s reach of desire. Society obviously wouldn’t survive if everyone supped on each other.Leftovers. recycle. compost. Yet, in another sense, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Andrew Potter, Bernard Madoff, cannibal capitalism, cannibalism, Datong, grace jones, ICT Hardware, janan siam, joseph heath rebel sell, Leonhard Kern, mike moffatt, tyler cowen | Leave a comment

occupy the authentic

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Dave

Its a complete distortion and perversion of some very profound thinking by the likes of Viktor Frankl and his will to meaning. The experiences of a holocaust death camp survivor filtered through the maze of pop culture into a reified … Continue reading →