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the ghost in the machine
Immortality through science? Can our ethical and emotional intelligence keep up with technology? Its a highly ambiguous issue. We seem to be on the cusp of a major, and final break from the industrial age; a potential for vastly increased … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Alan Turing, B.F. Skinner, Bill gates, Charles Darwin, cyborgs, Dr. Brandt Eugenics, eugenics, gilbert ryle, hugh loebner, kevin warwick, Lady Gaga, Lev Grossman, raymond kurzweil, Rene Descartes, robotic technology, the singularity, transhumanism, transhumanist clubs, W.B. Yeats
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guilty by juxtaposition
A peculiar combination of context and coincidence.A new aesthetic discourse in Nazi representation. Is there an aesthetics of fascism? Rudolf Herz is the artist who took the seemingly incongruous combination of Hitler and Marcel Duchamp and combined the two in … Continue reading
The Death and Resurrection Show: the shaman industry?
A guest blog by Tai Carmen at Parallax. Parallax:Exploring the architecture of human perception.The word parallax is a scientific term denoting a shift in perception upon movement of the perceiver rather than the perceived. Bang a gong, get it on…. … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Bertrand Russell, beyonce, Carl Jung, Carlo Ginzburg, daniel pinchbeck, Dionysus, Greil Marcus, James Frazer, james frazer the golden bough, James Hillman, jeremy narby, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Ken Kesey, Lady Gaga, mercea eliade, rogan taylor, stanley booth, tai carmen, tai carmen parallax, Titian
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billboard liberation
The billboard liberation movement. Taking back public space, one board at a time. … Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): There was an epidemic of altered billboards in the Seattle area back in the early 1980′s. It happened about the time our … Continue reading
will you stay or will you buy?
Rock the Cashbah.The commodification of punk. Was it all about the look? Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): When these durn kids these days talk about punk bands, they always get all misty-eyed and slobbery over the clash. Yet, they think of the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged art chantry, bernie rhodes, don kirschner, French Situationist, Glenn Beck, Greil Marcus, Guy Debord, joe strummer, john robb, Johnny Rotten Sex Pistols, julian temple, Julie Burchill, Lady Gaga, Malcolm McLaren, mick jones, morrisey, Sex Pistols, the clash
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subtle slavery: transmsission of property and commodity
Sir Robert Walpole, England’s eighteenth-century prime minister, lived in great splendor, In 1733, his household consumed over a thousand bottles of white Lisbon wine, merely one variety among the scores in the cellar. Every week oysters came in by the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Anita Sarkeesian, Annie Lennox, Betty Friedan, Beverly Knight, Brett Ratner, Duncan Quinn, International Women's Day, Jean Kilbourne, Jean Leon Gerome, Jimmy Choo, John Berger, Lady Gaga, Molly Sims, Monica Ali, Quincy Jones, Samuel Pepys, Sir Robert Walpole
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poet leaks : a hacking of verse
Julian Assange’s recently leaked e-mails to a young lover is a collection of some awkward attempts at poetic charming. A romantic poet he is not; yet the love letters probably reveal more about him than the headlines do. Although … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Adrien Chen, Amanda Marcotte, Amelia Gentleman, Amy Goodman, Anita Sarkeesian, Daniel Ellsberg, Daniel van der Velden, Dwayne Flinchum, Edward Heathcoat, Eric Holder, Farhad Manjoo Slate, Julian Assange, Kate Harding, Lady Gaga, Malcolm Rifkind, Marlon Brando, Michael Moore, Russell Smith, Todd Gitlin, Wiki Leaks
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outnet: invited to the party late, but better than not at all
It doesn’t quite fit perfectly; the body it was made for and the desire behind the figure that purchased it may vary slightly. Its an idea that seems to have legs and some sizzle. Take last years very high end … Continue reading