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kick sand in their faces
Synthetic credit. Trading a black box. Small is beautiful? Hardly when it comes to banking. In light of JP Morgan’s announced “surprise $2Billion profit bust; soaked and also synthetic red ink, people are naturally worried about contagion and another bank … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Aronson, Bruno Iskill, David Teniers, david teniers the younger, David Tenniers, Donald Trump, Eric Fischl, George Grosz, jamie dimon, joseph heath rebel sell, Joseph Schumpeter, JP Morgan bank, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Carney Bank of Canada, Mike Mayo CLSA, Mitt Romney 2012, volcker rule, Walter Benjamin, will hay ask a policeman
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the non-conforming rebel reactionary
The mistake of confusing authenticity and populism. The kind of sentimental lynch-mob mentality that desires to wind back the clock in a misbegotten assumption of returning to a form of innocence, of untarnished simplicity that characterized America; a kind of … Continue reading
dissent building: toy stories
Consumerism is unlikely to be defeated; there will be no white knight, no Saint George to slay the dragon and pitch its corpse into the center of the earth for fifty generations. Consumerism is a product of consumer behavior and … Continue reading
air supply
Culture jamming. Sometimes the artwork and aesthetics of culture jammers is of such ingenious quality that it could appear as if the anti-corporate dissent of the activists is actually produced by the offending companies themselves. That is, ostensible anti-consumerist messages … Continue reading
the fiction of them and us
A very astute look at consumerism and what drives the spending cycle, though not everyone may agree. He debunks some long held and often cherished assumptions that have been mainstays since the Frankfurt school’s Adorno and Marcuse and proposes the … Continue reading
left-write-left-right….
Take this bohemian artist, an icon of the counter-culture from the top shelf of the Czech Republic’s pre-communist era and you can concoct a recipe for bourgeois decadence and the commodification of dissent. Havel was almost the tailor made candidate … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Potter, frank zappa vaclav havel, joseph heath rebel sell, lou reed vaclav havel, Martin Heidegger, Max Horkheimer, Milos Forman, plastic people of the universe, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor Adorno, theodor pistek, thomas frank the baffler, vaclav havel
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hunters and gatherers: the cannibal capitalists
There is a certain taboo against cannibalism when times are good, and the manna on the tree is within an arm’s reach of desire. Society obviously wouldn’t survive if everyone supped on each other.Leftovers. recycle. compost. Yet, in another sense, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Potter, Bernard Madoff, cannibal capitalism, cannibalism, Datong, grace jones, ICT Hardware, janan siam, joseph heath rebel sell, Leonhard Kern, mike moffatt, tyler cowen
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forty lashes just for a warmup
Does the logic of postmodern capitalism no longer work, all the structural Ponzi’s coming home to roost, starting with the subjugated marginals like Greece and moving inexorably into the more bleached white domains of the Occidental heartland. All bubble eventually pop … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Greenspan, Andrew Potter, Ben Bernanke, chantal hebert, James Gillray, John Heartfield, John Maynard Keynes, joseph heath, joseph heath rebel sell, Max Horkheimer, Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, Pat Buchanan, Rick Salutin, robert c. clark, Stephen Harper, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Rowlandson, Thorstein Veblen, Walter Benjamin
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little criminals: occupy modify commodify
The ingenious part of our system, our “culture” is its ability to absorb and renew the top twenty percent of the population. These newbies, if you could call them, what Pierre Vallieres might term the new “white niggers of America” … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew coyne, Andrew Potter, Chris Hedges, cornel west, David Mamet, Edward S. Herman, Hannah Hoch, jacques duchesneau, jean charest, jean michel basquiat, John Heartfield, joseph heath rebel sell, Marianne Faithful, Marianne Faithfull, Martin Buber, Noam Chomsky, occupy wall street, Pierre Vallieres, Robert ParkeHarrison, the duchesneau report, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen
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