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Tag Archives: Jean Baudrillard
jerusalem day: if I forget thee
The power of identity. But is it about bolting it down to the weight of tradition or about creating a whole new world? We could begin by asking, using the theoretical base of Jean Baudrillard, to question whether Jerusalem even … Continue reading
when the saints come marching in
Friends of poverty. Suffering as a gift of god? The context for Hitchens attack on Mother Teresa was certainly sensational, down the sexual innuendo of the title Missionary Position. But, the broader context of Mother Teresa and the role charity … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Andrew Potter, arthur c. brooks, charles keating, Christopher Hitchens, Jean Baudrillard, jerry sandusky, joseph heath, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Malcolm Muggeridge, martin drolling, pierre bourdieu, Thorstein Veblen, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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a second voice: whispers out of the dust
Ventriloquy and horror. Those strange little creatures always seem to be up to no good. Yes. They are a lot like us. But who is the master and who pulls the strings….. “For Ventriloquy, or speaking from the bottom of … Continue reading
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Tagged charlie mcCarthy, david strassman, Edgar Allan Poe, h.g. wells dead of night, james wan, Jean Baudrillard, joseph wright of derby, Kurt Weill, leigh whannell, maxwell frere, michael redgrave, robert boyle, Theodor Adorno, ventriloquy, William Gaddis
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inanimate itch for the kitsch: real men don’t eat kitsch?
Modernist culture is simply not animated by eternal values of the purity of art and abstract truth. Like the dinosaur it failed to adapt and we tossed the baby out with the bath water. Not surprisingly, Walter Benjamin said that … Continue reading
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Tagged bazzano-nelson, Clement Greenberg, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, Esther Leslie, godley and Creme, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, Jeff Koons, kracauer, liliana porter, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Foucault, Roger Scruton, Sigmund Freud, sylvia meyer, Theodor Adorno, W.H. Auden, Walter Benjamin
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coke: the it and id of it all
Pure nothingness.The embracing of empty contradictions. The fraternization of impossibilities. The essence of nothingness.Kitsch. It comes from a German word, or even perhaps Yiddish, to denote bad taste. In inexhaustible supply of cheap images to pacify the longings of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Andy Warhol, billy wilder coca cola, herbert leupin, jacques-Alain Miller, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Duchamp, marie-therese walter, Marquis de Sade, Martin Buber, Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin
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war and conflict: those pauses that refresh
Its the ultimate kitsch product. Coke. All style and form. No substance. Something with multiple layers of meaning exposing a vast fictionality of the object situated in a space between reality and illusion. Kitsch. Both imitative and its negation, kitsch … Continue reading
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Tagged alan schechner, Alexandre Trauner, Andy Warhol, Billy Wilder, Clement Greenberg, Courbet, Henry Miller, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Duchamp, Milan Kundera, Norman Rockwell, robert woodruff coca cola, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin
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body and soul sold separately
Does our pop culture reinforce Western materialism by playing on commercial images which represent people as commodities, a sort of person, hyper-unrealistic, objectified, stereotyped into another object of the consumer culture spectacle.An endless process of the hollowing out of appearances, … Continue reading