Tag Archives: Max Weber

presence of the lord

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Dave

The Protestant Reformation has some strange old bones in the closet. Recessed genes that keep popping up in odd places. Those nasty margin notes of Martin Luther, that sinister side while mocking, and justly the clerical pomp and obedience without … Continue reading →

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marching to the tin drum

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Dave

If one looks into the abyss , can you be able to hold the stare? To test the strength of he gaze? Or, as Nietzsche said, will the abyss look back at you and in that case who will flinch … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Etienne Balibar, f.t. marinetti, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Singer Sargent, margaret bourke-white, Max Horkheimer, Max Weber, Michael Howard, Salvador dali, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin, Yue Minjun | Leave a comment

speaking in tongues: old time religion

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Dave

When religious ecstasy is the basis of the experience of faith. The immediate experience. The immediate sensation. Instant gratification. A direct connection to the messianic or its impending arrival. Glossolalia. Pentecostals believe that true religious experience is God sending down … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Charles Lewis, Charles Lewis National Post, charles parham, Harold Bloom, jimmy swaggert, marc m. arkin, margaret poloma, Max Weber, pentecostal church, Pompeo Batoni, Sarah Palin, william seymour | Leave a comment

the intensity valve: occupying hazards

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Dave

Adbusters: “Cultural revolution is our business” That is exactly the problem. Culture jamming is a business model that fits cleanly into Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle. Buy Nothing Day! but the rest of the years consume “cool” things that … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged bill shmalz, Charles Burton Barber, charles spencelayh, christopher lasch, Donald Kuspit, Edward Hopper, george elgar hicks, Guy Debord, Jeremy Paxman, John Sloan, jonathan haidt, kalle lasn, Marcus Stone, Max Weber, occupy wall street, robert k. merton, steve buscemi, Thomas Hart Benton, Thorstein Veblen, wilson bryan key | Leave a comment

Dog gone it: waiter there’s a cow in my lawn

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Dave

“In order to be reputable it must be wasteful.”- Thorstein Veblen Conspicuous waste. Publicized waste. Extravagance that the wealthy and socially powerful employ to distinguish themselves and mark their status. A point of honor and distinction at the core of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Charles Burton Barber, Guy Debord, Herbert Marcuse, Jean Baudrillard, joseph heath, Max Horkheimer, Max Weber, mertonian, Norman Rockwell, Raoul Vaneigem, Sir Edwin Landseer, steven halpern, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Gainsborough, Thorstein Veblen, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

ball four strike 3 fair or foul?

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Dave

Who’s on first? Does it matter? Although the actors change, the same situations repeat themselves, almost, in an eternal cycle. But, baseball is a business. It may be the national pastime, imbued in the national fabric but it remains a … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Aaron Sorkin, al schacht, Andy Warhol, babe ruth, bennett miller, billy beane, Brad Pitt, D.W. Winnicott, Donald Kuspit, dorothy dottie kamenshek, earl weaver, georg lukacs, Honore Daumier, market socialism, max patkin, Max Weber, michael Lewis Moneyball, moneyball, neil morris, neil sorkin, peter king, Piet Mondrian, roger maris, Roland Barthes, sabermetrics, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Walter Pater | Leave a comment

I’m lovin’ it: burger all dressed with guilt

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Dave

Is McDonald’s the ultimate symbol of imperialism? It seems to be a composite symbol of many factors. Sometimes what we think it is acts as a facade, a narrative of disavowal that is a bit superficial since these stories are … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Billboard Liberation Front, christianity and capitalism, Max Weber, mcdonalds marketing, mcdonalds marketing europe, Ron English, Sigmund Freud, steve easterbrook, steven shapin, Tristan Tzara, tristan tzara lenin chess, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

fast car : passing in the white lane?

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Dave

Fascism met futurism met the automobile. The futurist preoccupation with speed and dynamism was expressed in a new style. At the same time fascism as a fusion of the political and the aesthetic, according to Walter Benjamin ,was well served … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged brenda ueland, czech dream 2004, david cromwell, Edward Bernays, edward herman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, ferdinand porsche, fred allen, john lahr guardian, Max Weber, Noam Chomsky | Leave a comment

bosch: strawberry fields nor ever

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Dave

A cursing of those fanatical, demented, crazed…tormentors and executioners….The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch has certainly puzzled viewers. It is one of the most mysterious and enigmatic paintings ever done. Only five hundred years later has its meaning … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous | Tagged Erasmus, Erich Fromm, Ernst Bloch, Hieronymous Bosch, Laurinda Dixon, martha Clarke Garden of Earthly Delights, Max Weber, Michel Foucault, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pieter Brueghel, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

Pretty babies:from Drawing Room to the rabbit hole

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Dave

The shadows of celebrity shows all the reflections of a flickering candle.The shadows are the flip side of the spotlight. They are unpredictable and turn in usual paths and shapes at times..Its always been a battle between the trickle down … Continue reading →