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the fifties: not so nifty
The 1950’s. The quest to satisfy supremely the prevailing hunger for all that was cozy, familiar, and safe. The myth that this was a special time, when the individual’s joys were allegedly unsullied, our problems of the most superficial variety, … Continue reading
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Tagged American Bandstand, American Bandstand Dick Clark, Buffalo Bob and Howdy Doody, ethel merman, Fred J. Cook, Gertrude Berg, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Milton Berle, Milton Berle Texaco Theatre, Sandra Dee, The Milton Berle Show
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fifties: features of figments
Must we be nostalgic about the fifties? Pervasive influences are at work. We are not left to our own devices and nostalgic impulses do not flow as they will. They are not mirrored in their variety by the mass media, … Continue reading
happy days: manufacture of innocence
Halfway through the 1950’s , in the summer of 1955, Life ran an article entitled Nobody is Mad With Nobody.” In the text, in which, next to photographs of things like two car suburban garages marked “his” and “hers”, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Caril Fugate, Charlie Starkweather, elmo roper, Fred J. Cook, Friedrich Nietzsche, gil elvgren, Helen Levitt, James Dean, John Updike, jules aarons, kevin phillips, Norman Rockwell, president eisenhower, Richard Halpern, Rick Salutin, robert woodruff coca cola, Slavoj Zizek, the 1950's, Tim Roth, tim roth murder in the heartland
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MARCUSE: IS THERE AN APP FOR A REVOLUTION?
His economic ideas belong in the bone yard, and his understanding of organizational decision making resembles that of ”a camel is a horse designed by a committee ” school. But his ideas on aesthetics and art, likely a byproduct of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bergson, Dali, Douglas Kellner, Felix Guattari, Fred J. Cook, Gilles Deleuze, Goethe, henri Bergson, Herbert Marcuse, Jacques Derrida, Jean Paul Sartre, Laura Marcus, Martin Heidegger, Maurizio Cattelan, Michel Foucault, Peter Nicholls, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Vance Packard
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