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this poor man cries out but who is listening
The God game. The politics of God. Santorum hs the potential to be a dangerous demagogue, but the left critique with its mixing of theology, religion and class economics is almost as nausea inducing by positioning the voice of god … Continue reading
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Tagged abel meeropol, Billie Holiday, Billie Holiday Strange Fruit, Chris Hedges, Christopher Hitchens, cornel west, Erich Fromm, James Cone, james h. cone, Larry Rivers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Martin Buber, Paul Tillich, Richard Dawkins, Rick Salutin, rick santorum, robert wyatt, robert wyatt strange fruit, Sam Harris
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one moment sir
In the human heart, is there a place that cannot be corrupted, a safe zone, a voice of conscience embedded within our DNA that acts as an underlying reason, giving meaning to our existence or is this sentimental drivel, say … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Adolf Eichmann capture, Adolph Eichmann, Agnieszka holland, Erich Fromm, Hannah Arendt, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, Martin Buber, Max Horkheimer, Norman Rockwell, Peter Z. Malkin, Theodor Adorno
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degenerate art : fear of the everyday hucksters
Signs of pretense. Pretend art where the sentiments are an elaborate fake far removed from genuine emotion. Something like what Freud called the joke in art in his study of Michelangelo’s Moses but now on a grand, industrial scale of … Continue reading
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Tagged albert speer, Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman, dan graham art, daniel boorstin, Edvard Munch, Erich Fromm, gitta sereny, Guy Debord, henri Lefebvre, jay a. clarke, Jeff Koons, Joseph Schumpeter, lynn h. nicholas, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, Theodor Adorno, Vanessa Beecroft, wilson bryan key, YSL Mondrian dresses
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mix, match and catch
There are so many different strands of thought regarding “dissent”, essentially a critique of society, think back to old books like Vance Packard and Rachel Carson that our parents may have read, or even more profoundly the type of criticism … Continue reading
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Tagged David Reisman, Donald Kuspit, Erich Fromm, Henry Jenkins, James Cameron, jim carrey, John Heartfield, Jonathan McIntosh, kim kardashian, participatory culture, Political Remix Videos PRV, Rex Murphy, scott walker, Vance Packard
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heavy wadders
Crap. Rubbish. Shit. A higher truth about our world: all baloney. The underclass image of kitsch rubbish is simply part of the capitalist upper class. An accessory item. An option to be sold short. The ethical cachet of defiant rebelliousness … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, arielle bier, Dadaism, Eli Kazan, Erich Fromm, Georges Bataille, John Baldessari, John Paulson, Jonathan Swift, karl abraham, katharine harvey, Marcel Duchamp, Marlon Brando, michael parekowhai, Milan Kundera, Murakami art, Salvador dali, Thorstein Veblen
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lost manuscript: searching with the rag pickers
There have been some famous lost manuscripts in the history of literature. There was Hemingway’s lost suitcase,Malcolm Lowry’s manuscript draft of Ballast to the White Sea was lost to fire in his shack near Vancouver, Plath’s 130 page draft of … Continue reading
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Tagged carina birman, dani karavani, david mauas, david s. ferris, Edouard Manet, Erich Fromm, Georges Bataille, Gershom Scholem, henning ritter, henny gurland, jean francois raffaelli, lisa fittco, Max Horkheimer, michael taussig, Stephen Schwartz, Stuart Jeffries Guardian, T.E. Lawrence, Ted Hughes Sylvia Plath, Theodor Adorno, thomas attardi, Thomas Carlyle, Walter Benjamin
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WMD: cook the books
Leveraged exchange traded funds or ETF’s….These financiers. Morbidly earthbound figures, weighed down by the heavy change in their pockets. Without that primitive anchor of coin rooting them to the soil, they would float away into a void, a kind of … Continue reading
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Tagged bitov castle, Charles Baudelaire, charles bukowski, D.W. Winnicott, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, douglas a. kass, Erich Fromm, ETF volatility, George Soros, John Paulson, Jonathan McIntosh, levis go forth, Marcel Duchamp, molinari antonio, seabreeze partners, the golden calf, Victor Hugo, Walter Benjamin
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Dionysian sacrifice
Anthony Weiner as a Dionysian sacrifice. Dragged from the fields of Alba onto a sacrificial pyre.As James Frazer in the Golden Bough remarked, was the later pretence of treating the sacrificial victims as if they were human beings was merely … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Maslow, anthony weiner, Caravaggio, christine rosen, christopher lasch, David Riesman, Dr. Sam Vaknin, Erich Fromm, James Frazer, james frazer the golden bough, John William Waterhouse, mike segar reuters, ross douthat, Tom Wolfe
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postponing utopia: degeneracy as ideal
There is a relationship between memory and a participatory emancipation and an equally strong connection with forgetting, loss of memory and enslavement and subjugation. George Orwell asserted that individuals who lack the capability for remembrance are defenseless in confronting the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alex Constantine, Erich Fromm, George Orwell, Noam Chomsky, P.G. Wodehouse, Rudyard Kipling, Salvadore Dali, Stephen Schwartz, tim robbins, W.B. Yeats, Walter Benjamin
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collapse of the soul: the flux of the IT
He could never really control what he did or what he wrote. Artaud said these defects of form were often rescued from complete nothingness. The raw results attributed to ” a collapse of the soul at its center, a kind … Continue reading
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Tagged Antonin Artaud, Charlie Sheen, Erich Fromm, Georg Groddeck, heinrich maria darvinghausen, Jacques Derrida, Lawrence Durrell, Oskar Kokoschka, Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh
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