Tag Archives: Donald Sutherland

MIA: infrastructure under the radar

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Dave

….If anyone sees a missing building, please report it to the administration immediately.” Sound like a camp-wide megaphone public address from Robert Altman’s MASH movie of 1970. Irony and absurdity combined in that strange and often contradictory relationship between military … Continue reading →

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the fifties: happy days?

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Dave

The 1950′s as Golden Age? The manufacturing of instant public myth, replete with rosy recollections and the retrospective pleant time where there is an option to subscribe to nostalgia as public virtue… …The paranoiac fear of the Russians in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Barry Manilow, Barry Manilow 1950's, Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Korean War, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ring Lardner, Robert Altman Director, Suez Crisis 1956, Suez Crisis United States | Leave a comment

mesmerized by the decisive victory: lunatic doctrines

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Dave

Instructions for losing a war .Lesson one, page one: ignore Karl Maria von Clausewitz… …even his statement that war is a continuation of policy has been twisted into meaning that war is the most effective of political instruments, or that … Continue reading →

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cloudbusters: the friendly skies

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Dave

Forget rain dancing and prayer. Call cloud busting a different sort of appeal to nature. It is something like a Rube Goldberg apparatus meeting a Marcel Duchamp ready-made. It completes the mundane task of restoring an equilibrium in nature through … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Donald Sutherland, Jean Tinguely, JMW Turner, Kate Bush, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Orgone Energy, orgone engineering, Rube Goldberg, Walter Nejamin, Wilhelm Reich | Leave a comment

war games: virtual hero

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Dave

What me worry? The country is safe. The anarchist threat has been rebuffed. The virtual vigilantes ensure that the sun will always rise on America. …”The latest ‘Call of Duty” video game set a first-day sales record of over $400million … Continue reading →

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GUILTLESS PLEASURE: IMMORTALIZED FOR THE NAUGHTY BITS

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Dave

Casanova: “I had women, I played, I joined in the fun, I bawled, I scorned and was never slave to my passions, but they gave me pleasure. Of not hiding myself, I made my profession…”The same principle which forbids me … Continue reading →