Tag Archives: Bob Dylan

the chosen: wandering decisions

Tyranny of the majority. Its a stock character today, but is the perhaps dominant cultural aesthetic of our time: the endless variations on the neurotic and hyperarticulate, as well as sexually obsessed individual; throw in issues of class and assimilation … Continue reading

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ready for an american lenin?

Are we ready for an American Lenin? Or a Mao? Or even a Gandhi? Will “make love not war” ever give way to “make revolution not love”; until then the odds are doubtful… Many people assert that a revolutionary situation … Continue reading

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billion dollar bash

Living in dangerous times. Currency wars have been on the fringe of public consciousness for some time, mainly as as an echo of anti-China sentiment on their dumping practices into north American markets. However we are on the verge of … Continue reading

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firing on all pistons

So Jethro heard of goings on in the desert and somehow took a cue to follow the cloud that shielded the exiled Hebrews from Egypt. And he didn’t come empty handed, bringing with him Moses’s wife and two sons. Receiving … Continue reading

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cold irons bound: don’t let my people go

The Jonathan Pollard industry. There are plenty of howls and whines to let Jonathan Pollard go, as if he is some victim in Kafka story of deep injustice of the system. Stuck in the in-between space of Kafka’s Before The … Continue reading

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bootleg cover

by Art Chantry: this is a cover of a bootleg rolling stones recording from back in 1973. they were just taking break on their legendary monster tour following the release of “Exile” and this is a tape of a concert … Continue reading

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darwin: if only one could discern it

…Darwin had been struck during the voyage by a number of facts which seemed at odds with the special creation of each species. The organic life he studied so intensively and collected so assiduously seemed littered with clues, odd similarities, … Continue reading

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art for the sake of creative destruction

Consciousness of the all-mighty dollar is pretty pervasive, even overwhelming. In the modern art world it informs aesthetic and spiritual content like everything else in society, conquering art such that art itself is a pure commodity, a sub-species of money … Continue reading

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darwin: dispensing with adam

…Darwin took with him on his voyage, besides his own knowledge and aptitudes, one indispensable tool for interpreting what he saw. Before sailing, Henslow pressed upon him the recently published first volume of Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology., with instructions … Continue reading

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darwin: we may all be netted together

Darwin. His theories have already made one profound change in man’s ideas about himself and his world. An now with genetics we are entering phase two… …The furor created by the publication of The Origin of Species was not due … Continue reading

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