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marat: santa’s advance scout

Charlotte Corday and Marat Sade as Christmas decorations. Peace and Goodwill to All but only after some necessary business is taken care of. Even those crazy Jacobins had gift giving on their mind. A painting as political cinema noir or … Continue reading

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think twice it’s alright

Integration. Synthesis. C’mon Bob, those redemptive qualities of the Pickwick gift certificates put you only halfway up the staircase. We may distinguish both true and false needs. “False” are those which are superimposed upon the individual by particular social interests … Continue reading

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such a pretty girl why are you crying?

How will I know you when I see you / In the bareness of spring I will know you by starlight / Where the road’s echoes sing How will I love you when I know you / In the greyness … Continue reading

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a meme as astral seeks

Playing with memes and avoiding the minefield of sensationalism, and new variants on the theme of pornography, which seems to be the antithesis of magic and at least something surprising, compelling and not entirely comprehensible. [Kitsch] is perhaps most clearly … Continue reading

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re-branding the booty

The importance of context cannot be taken as an unconscious variable. When bubbles collide they often burst. Even covering Kim’s butt for Madame Pickwick was too “out there” for the Nerfs but within the realm of Studio Backstage it becomes … Continue reading

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it’s not the meat it’s the notion

“The concept of spectacle unifies and explains a great diversity of apparent phenomena. The diversity and the contrasts are appearances of a socially organized appearance, the general truth of which must itself be recognized. Considered in its own terms, the … Continue reading

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seminal warfare: kimo therapy

A plastic Kim just for bobble butt you…That incredible feeling of power of the lie and letting others believe you possess… “The spectacle presents itself as something enormously positive, indisputable and inaccessible. It says nothing more than “that which appears … Continue reading

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power of ungrateful

wonder what could happen when two people under the influence get together. And everything was going so well! The text is a rip-off of the popular meme translated into French and placed within the new context. ” I don’t often..” … Continue reading

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so cute you could die

Zany,the often obscure cult of cute with its cutting edge cookie cutter style of homogenized aesthetic quality as mass commodity. An aggressive antidote to the beautiful or the sublime, but rather irritating and shallow often in the realm of the … Continue reading

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poetry of the spectacle

Think Pickwick! Taking a tour of the real “occupied territories” with Allen Ginsberg Le spectacle n’est pas un ensemble d’images, mais un rapport social entre des personnes, médiatisé par des images. … …Il n’est pas un supplément au monde réel, … Continue reading

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