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Tag Archives: Max Horkheimer
a cow still had to die
A cow still had to to be sacrificed to make that leather car seat that adds such prestige to the automobile…. But young people, more than ever are less interested in cars, and more concerned about cleaner, safer and quieter … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Al Cowlings, bianca mugyenyi, Billy Wilder, Bridge of Weir Leather Company, Burt Reynolds, Lewis Mumford, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, O.J. Simpson Ford Bronco, Reclaim the Streets Group, Sally Field, Steve McQueen, Theodor Adorno, yves engler, Yves Engler Stop Signs
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In the jaws of the crocodile
People are the product of history. The way nations see, dress, think and formulate reality are much based on the parameters that over time, form a wall of convention, the box to which the comfort zone of convenience installs and … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aaron ben Moses, Bashar Al Assad, Cal Shenkel, Captain Beefheart, Charles Manson, Hassan Nasrallah, Ibn Sahl manuscript, Judith Butler, Maimonides, Margaret Atwood The Blind Assasin, Max Horkheimer, Mursi Egypt, Snell's law, The Aleppo Codex, Theodor Adorno
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tears and fears: RIP (through) holy land
Attack Jerusalem? Launching rockets on the eternal city? Imagine the irony if a Hamas rocket hits the Dome of the Rock? Recoil time to play in the rubble. Something here about Walter Benjamin’s idea of children playing in trash and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, anselm kiefer, bernard lewis, Caroline Glick Jerusalem Post, David Rubinger, Gershon Baskin, Golda Meir, Heinrich Bunting, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, thomas friedman new york times, tom wesselmann, Walter Benjamin
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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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cartoon messiah: a walt misery construction
…A struggle between the divine and the mythical, Jacob and the Angel as point of departure and building block for a political struggle that of necessity and consequence collides and challenges the established law. Since the beginning, there has always … Continue reading
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Tagged Anarchism David Graeber, Ben Bernanke, Bob Dylan, Christopher Nolan, David Graeber, david graeber guardian, Max Horkheimer, Milton Glaser, Sigmund Freud, TD Canada Trust, TD Money Lounge, TD Money Lounge Canada, Theodor Adorno, Umberto Eco, Walter Nejamin, Wayne Gretzky
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chill out: religion doesn’t grow on trees
Judith Butler is a major critic of the state of Israel. Like many in left, far left academia, they occupy a higher moral ground than the common and mortal, the unwashed who may actually have to do some real work … Continue reading
hail to the chief
Theodor Adorno basic thesis was that repression and domination, were part and parcel, intrinsic to the functioning of liberal democratic societies as well as totalitarian fascist ones. The individual as mere exchange value, a commodity, or simple vending machine was … Continue reading