Tag Archives: Guy Debord

homegrown or home blown: no name on the bullet

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Dave

We wish to glorify War — the only health giver of the world — militarism, patriotism, the destructive arm of the Anarchist, the beautiful Ideas that kill, the contempt for woman. We wish to destroy the museums, the libraries, to … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Audie Murphy, Boston Marathon explosion, Filippo Marinetti, Giambologna sculpture, Guy Debord, Hieronymous Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Salvador dali, Sen. Diane Feinstein | Leave a comment

signed into law, sealed and delivered…

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Dave

Appearance at the expense of reality, as a gesture to obscure and deny reality? Rather in the context of post-modernism, the society of the spectacle, where we give up on external as well as internal reality, treating the two of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged biblical Kohanim, D.W. Winnicott, Guy Debord, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Dawkins | Leave a comment

the chosen: wandering decisions

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Dave

Tyranny of the majority. Its a stock character today, but is the perhaps dominant cultural aesthetic of our time: the endless variations on the neurotic and hyperarticulate, as well as sexually obsessed individual; throw in issues of class and assimilation … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged bar refaeli, Bob Dylan, eugene sue, Guy Debord, Herman Wouk, Hieronymous Bosch, Jacques Derrida, Jean Genet, Marcel Duchamp, natalie wood, Philip Roth, Slavoj Zizek, Woody Allen | Leave a comment

its all relative: shades of grey morality

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Dave

Moral relativity. Does it reinforce the racism and stereotypes that so called progressives seek to eradicate; or is a self-defeating loop where groups are defended as pretext within a struggle within more dominant social classes. The idea of accepting racism … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Allan Bloom, Allan Bloom professor, Erin Burnett, Guy Debord, Laura Bush, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Murray Rothbard, Rene Magritte, Samira Ibrahim, Steven Lukes, Thompkins H. Matteson | Leave a comment

circus colors

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Dave

One thing about working with the Cirque de Soleil, remember him, Guy Laliberte the first clown to travel in space; well selling make-up and airbrush to the Cirque opens eyes as to the current trends in color and those used … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Cirque de Soleil, Createx Airbrush paint, Guy Debord, Guy Laliberté, Guy Laliberte Cirque de Soleil, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog | Leave a comment

fiscal cliffs and financial stiffs

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Dave

…The end is near. Doomsday scenario targeting that source of perennial anxiety and trauma: The management of the American economy; now in terms of integrity officially in a recession, a double-dipper with the entire money and banking system, the money … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Allan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Dai Dudu, Fiscal Cliff United States, Fritz Lang Metropolis, Guy Debord, henri Lefebvre, Hieronymous Bosch, James Rickards currency wars, Li Tiezi, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Paul Krugman, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Winslow Homer, Zhang An | Leave a comment

art for the sake of creative destruction

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Dave

Consciousness of the all-mighty dollar is pretty pervasive, even overwhelming. In the modern art world it informs aesthetic and spiritual content like everything else in society, conquering art such that art itself is a pure commodity, a sub-species of money … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Damien Hirst, David Ganek, Eli Broad, Francis Bacon art, Guy Debord, Jeff Koons, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Quinn, Pablo Picasso, Randy Newman, Stephen Wynn, Steven A. Cohen, willem de Kooning | Leave a comment

this hour has 9 minutes and 11 seconds

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Dave

Part of the long and victorious march of image over substance? Arafat. still a celebrity. Still a locus for the communal lives of many. It is one of those incomprehensible and unexplainable side effects whereby a manufactured pop culture icon … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Arafat poisoned, Arafat polonium poisoning, Ariel Sharon, Derek Hill radiological expert, Dov Weissglass, Edward Trelawny, ehud barak, Gamal Abdel Nasser KGB, General Aharon Zevi-Farkash, Guy Debord, Hilary Clinton Palestinian Authority, Hillary Clinton meets Abbas in Paris, Jean Genet, Jean Genet PLO, Jimmy Cliff The Harder They Come, John Milton, Kofi Annan, Laurence Sterne, Leigh Hunt, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Salam Fayyad Palestinian Authority, Suha Arafat, William Wordsworth, Yuri Andropov | Leave a comment

rate fetish: the price is right

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Dave

…Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes part of the ceremony. Kafka, Parables and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bob Diamond Barclays, Charles Bronson, edward g. robinson, Franz Kafka, Guy Debord, harry joy photography, LIBOR rate fixing scandal, Max Horkheimer, Patrick Jenkins Financial Times, Philip Augar, Theodor Adorno | Leave a comment

forty shades on a sea of grey

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Dave

Its an industry in itself. An entire substrata of entertainment, a part of the military industrial entertainment complex known as the Israel Protest industry which is something straight out of Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle; the country serving as … Continue reading →