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un-wreckable status system
The widespread image of a conformist America clinging to ladders of caste, through social class is oddly belied and reinforced by the symbols of prestige that wear out, decline in power, and are then replaced, starting a new cycle of … Continue reading
planet of the apeing
Interesting article on Andrew Potter, who with Joseph Heath wrote Rebel Sell. Potter’s ideas are not unique or original but they are placed within the context of contemporary pop culture in an easy to grasp everyperson’s manner that strip out … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Andrew Potter, David Mcraney, Herbert Marcuse, joseph heath, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Mitt Romney 2012, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, Toulouse-Lautrec, Walter Benjamin
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manhattan campfire tapes
Get that Occupy Wall Street feeling. …Anyone who’s anyone is spending about $1,660( luxury package) to sleep in a sleeping bag in midtown Manhattan. Its a perversion of the word “authenticity” which seems to be a predominant driver of consumerism … Continue reading
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Tagged Deirdre Yack, Fran Cutler, Glamping, Glamping in a yurt, Hyatt 48 Lex, joseph heath, Kate Moss, Kate Moss Glamping, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, monty python and the holy grail, Rudy Giuliani, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen
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the new seekers
Aldous Huxley is to the negative or anti-utopia what Plato and Sir Thomas More combined are to the positive. We are apt to be less familiar with the Republic’s guardians and Utopia’s jeweled toys than we are with Brave New … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Andrew Potter, c.m. kornbluth, Frederick Pohl, George Orwell, Herbert Marcuse, joseph heath, Karl Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Noam Chomsky, Paul Goodman, Ray Bradbury, Sir Thomas More, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor Adorno, William Tenn
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the too real to be true deal
We seem to be on the verge of a new era of populism, a search for someone to rise up on behalf of the little guy and gal like- Obama was rhetorically pining to do before getting knock-kneed- and defying … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrew Potter, bob hepburn, Gov. Rick Perry, harry truman turnip day, herman cain, joe klein, john huntsman, john mcain straight talk express, joseph heath, Joseph Schumpeter, Lionel Trilling, Marcel Duchamp, Oprah Winfrey, sarah palin moose hunting, Stephen Harper, Vladimir Putin
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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
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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flush hard: we’ve come a long way?
The cliche that newness has become. Its hard to argue with Donald Kuspit’s assertions on modern art, beginning with Marcel Duchamp’s Ready Mades as a confidence game, with the ready made being a surrogate for the female body. His bases … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andres Serrano, Anita Sarkeesian, Clement Greenberg, Donald Kuspit, francis m. naumann, Joseph Beuys, joseph heath, Julian Schnabel, Marcel Duchamp, marie-therese walter, Marquis de Sade, marshal berman, marshall berman, Michael Balint, Pablo Picasso, paul mccarthy, sidney janis, Slavoj Zizek, Thorstein Veblen, tim wise, vincent desiderio
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muckrakers and culture stakers
The pop culture world. We just have to accept it until it runs its course. And the cycle could be very long until it unravels, like a balance sheet depression or a life long illness or addiction that may take … Continue reading
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Tagged Gerhard Richter, Guy Debord, Jean Genet, john collier, Joseph Beuys, joseph heath, Joseph Schumpeter, lincoln steffens, Max Horkheimer, Michael Moore, Pete Seeger, Peter Max, the muckrakers, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, yvelyne wood
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