Tag Archives: Herbert Marcuse

the idealist: ordinary procedure and abnormal situation

The media is full of stories about “systematic risk” to our financial system and efforts to put “firewalls” around potential contagions from spreading, but the idea of systematic risk with regard to social relations within a country and the real … Continue reading

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69 days 33 men and no bobo

It”s a lot of time to be among men, isolated from the rest of the world. Sometimes the boundaries between an artificial world and the real collapse blurring the boundaries between social taboos and more primal urges. The relationship between … Continue reading

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getting their hands on the whip

Dystopia Uber Alles. Newspeak: a perfect language. Its a world where those who wish to retrieve their freedom are subjected to humiliation, loss of identity, and in the last resort, pain. “We shall meet in the place where there is … Continue reading

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MIND READERS & THOUGHT FEEDERS:Pleasures of the “Buy” Button

Its a lot of money to spend on delectable gourmet bugs even if well spiced and cooked to your instructions.  Insects are not  considered a scarce  or endangered commodity. But, maybe quenching our pangs of hunger by integrating them in … Continue reading

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UTOPIAN DREAMS & SCHEMES and IN-BETWEENS

What is Utopia and why does it attract both hope and skepticism in equal measure?  In a way that appears meaningful, it is a productive inner tensions between two tendencies: a positive optimistic utopianism and a negative utopian pessimism. A … Continue reading

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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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MARCUSE HOT & STICKY: EM-BODY THE BODY POLITIC

“All Verbs: ream, spin, veer, span, cross, ram, peel, charge, pitch, verge, switch, shoot, slide, cram, goad, clash, cleave, fetch, clamp, lean, swap, butt, crook, split, jut, hack, break, stroke, stop.“ — Lozano notebook page dated 1964/67. Sex and Drugs and … Continue reading

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MARCUSE: ONE DIMENSIONAL MAN= ONE DIMENSIONAL ART

Q. But what of art like that of Beckett, which can’t seem to formulate a positive vision of the future? Marcuse: I think it is precisely the total absence of all false hopes that brings out the depth of the … Continue reading

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REPRESSIVE TOLERANCE: DISARMING THOSE PIOUS FRAUDS

”Whereas at times Marcuse’s writings on art seem to be a replay of the tendency of romanticism and some versions of artistic modernism to celebrate the artist as the true revolutionary and art as the true revolution, in fact Marcuse … Continue reading

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MARCUSE & THE POWER OF NEGATIVITY: 2 WRONGS MAKE A BOMB

“Art itself appears as part and force of the tradition which perpetuates that which is, and prevents the realization of that which can and ought to be.” Herbert Marcuse was a study in consistency, even if it was a radical … Continue reading

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