Tag Archives: Gilles Deleuze

the age of incompetence

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Dave

Are our government’s in the West incompetent? No doubt the nation state is in crisis and its future of more than passing concern. Whether in terminal collapse as some libertarians seem to be wagering on, or some from of re-tooling … Continue reading →

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time to get a clock

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Dave

The Clock.Time is like a bus. If you miss one another one will come.  An almost transcendent 24 hour video of thousands of clips in syncronized time. We live in a world in which time is omnipresent. The tedium of … Continue reading →

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animal farm: all animals are equal but some are more equal…

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Dave

Is tyranny the fate of our society in collective? An eternal recurrence of Jasmine springs? Like Sisyphus reaching the summit, the earth with all its Gaddafi’s can never be pitched into the abyss; it rolls down the mountain ensuring the … Continue reading →

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magic and the fluctuating center

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Dave

Like a religion it gave birth to several ideal sects. This was precisely because Antonin Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty was a theoretical, ideal theatre that was never meant to be staged, and Artaud never bothered to explain how to obtain … Continue reading →

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the theatre and the plague: everybody knows this is nowhere

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Art

Antonin Artaud based his Theater of Cruelty on the basis of reality being the double of theater. Two virtual realities representing individual duality that exist on parallel planes which never intersect. In this sense actors on the stage are not … Continue reading →

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tin drums:Rabbit angstrom and Doonesbury

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Dave

He was known more for his narrative story telling than illustrations that seemed secondary. Known more for an ostensibly corrosive pen that satirized and skewered the U.S. Government and the establishment behind it. The tyranny of the majority. Its hard … Continue reading →

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shades of 1848: gulps of reality in a pure state

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Dave

For many, what is transpiring in the Arab world, bears resemblance to another year of revolution: 1848. When the inevitable reaction to these toppling of regimes takes place, will it recall the sad end of 1848 when the springtime hopes … Continue reading →

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distorting mirrors: freaks of mechanical reincarnation

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Dave

Was Otto Dix first and foremost a critic of capitalism? A critic through the bias of the industrial/military/cultural complex that was the beast carrying the burden of material comfort for the lambs. He made sermons without preaching and an artistic … Continue reading →

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EVERYONE IS A STAR: Can I Buy or Lease Your Aura?

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Dave

It may seem peculiar, annoying, disconcerting and disturbing when pop culture artifacts, including garbage and facial hair, material with no intrinsic value, sells for substantial sums of money. Why? Do they belong to the spirits that guide us through the … Continue reading →

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TAKE A WALTZ: A Kampf of Bohemian Rhapsodies

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Dave

Now in Vienna there’s ten pretty women There’s a shoulder where Death comes to cry There’s a lobby with nine hundred windows There’s a tree where the doves go to die There’s a piece that was torn from the morning … Continue reading →

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