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hold your nose: flushing into a non-existant past
Excerpts from a brilliant article exposing the underside of what Adorno called the “cultural industries” and what Kuspit refers to as art as part of the industrial entertainment complex so drowned and subsumed by money values there is strictly form … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged ben vautier, Bertrand Russell, christopher caudwell, Damien Hirst, Diego Velasquez, Edouard Manet, gilbert and george, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Mike Kelley, Pablo Picasso, paul mccarthy art, Piero Manzoni, Theodor Adorno
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running of the bulls of babylon
When extremes support each other. Fundamentally hypocritical bourgeois values? Or, are talking about two fundamentally different approaches to reinforcing the continuity of patriarchy and misogyny that defies rational classicism arisen from the Enlightenment or the irrational attributes of human nature, … Continue reading
fold up the tent: patriots with bonds in their pockets
…As the U.S. miltary officially leaves Iraq, much of us are still puzzled by the phenomenon of this conflict which pits the social, the psychological and the economic in contradictory positions vis. a vis. conventional thinking. Can the conflict be … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged alex pareene, Andre Breton, Carl von Clausewitz, Chris Hitchens, christopher caudwell, David Frum, david turnley photography, Erich Maria Rilke, Jean Renoir, La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir, martin van creveld, Reza Deghati, Sam Huntington, Slavoj Zizek, steven metz, Susan Sontag, Thorstein Veblen, XTC Colin Moulding
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homespun
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
to tell or not to tell
Its hardly a new problem. Racism seems inextricably bound up with our economic structure, and with ideology, what Veblen termed “invidious comparison” that clarified the complexities between dominated and subjugator such that it is almost inconceivable to think of market … Continue reading
I’d rather be a weed
It can be plausibly argued that violence does cause thinking. If peace was predominant, there would never be much occasion for thoughtful reflection. So, thinking is bound to violence, and violence seems the janus-faced side of civilization. And, the trick … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged alexia nader, Allen Ginsberg, Chris Hedges, christopher caudwell, cornel west, Howard Zinn, marshall rosenberg, michel maiofiss, Noam Chomsky, occupy wall street, Paul Krugman, victor villasenor, Walt Whitman
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build a better mousetrap to snag em’
build it and they will come? Good intro here, but the Father then went on to extoll the stadium. But, some interesting points. You have to wonder if these massive structures are a perversion of some form of twisted ideology. … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged b.c. place stadium, christopher caudwell, Donald Kuspit, Father Raymond J. de Souza, fred herzog photography, Guy Debord, Helen Levitt photography, henri Lefebvre, Joseph Beuys, mikel dufrenne, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Raymond De Souza, Robert ParkeHarrison, Viktor Frankl, viktor frankl logotherapy, wilson bryan key
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hit him with your rhythm stick
…After an appearance before the House Un-American Committee in 1947, Brecht went directly to Switzerland where his reputation seemed to be reviving, and when the regime in East Berlin offered him a theater of his own and a subsidy to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Berliner Ensemble, Bertolt Brecht, christopher caudwell, Donald Kuspit, Douglas Kellner, joerg immendorff, jorg immendorff, karl korsch, kent williams painting, korsch, markus lupertz, Rep. John Parnell Thomas, Walter Benjamin, william empsom
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brecht: cleaning out the stale slag of feeling
The why of Bertolt Brecht’s popularity in America has always been a bit complicated. One way or another, the United States held a personal fascination for Brecht, and his attitude towards it developed through two distinct phases. As a young … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, boyd tomkin, Charlie Chaplin, christopher caudwell, deidra gwyther, don coker art, erwin piscator, George Grosz, helene weigel, john doyle director, martin esslin, martin esslin brecht, pacifism, Walter Benjamin
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