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Tag Archives: Naomi Klein
status: enduring symbols
…Actually, we are living not so much in a status system as in the wreckage of one, a storeroom full of broken monuments; for the process of destroying status is self-destructive, and ruins each new idol that it raises. Once … Continue reading
running on almost empty
It’s an interesting proposition. Getting rid of cars period would be a huge leap in changing our sense of consciousness. The debate has been quarantined and hi-jacked by discussion about national security and ecology, but smaller and more fuel efficient … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged bianca mugyenyi, Chevrolet Spark, Ford B-Max, General Smedley Butler, James Woolsey CIA, marshall berman, Naomi Klein, Nathan Adlen, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Bogdanovitch, Reclaim the Streets, Reclaim The Streets RTS, The last Picture Show movie 1971, TomTom Congestion Index, yves engler
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tradition of the quest
The atmosphere conjured up by J.D. Salinger inevitably recalls the era of nineteenth-century romanticism; then, too, the promise of utopia disappeared in blood, leaving the younger generation disillusioned and ready to escape into the personal search for truth and beauty. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Alfred Kazin, Arthur Heiserman, Byron romantic poet, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ihab Hassan, J.D. Salinger, Jack Skow, James ameron, James Fenimore Cooper, Janet Malcolm, John Lennon murder, Kenneth Slawenski, Lord Byron greece, Mel Gibson, Naomi Klein, Paul Levine, Slavoj Zizek, Stephen J. Whitfield, Taxi Driver movie, William Weigand
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forty shades on a sea of grey
Its an industry in itself. An entire substrata of entertainment, a part of the military industrial entertainment complex known as the Israel Protest industry which is something straight out of Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle; the country serving as … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aosdana Ireland, Boycott Israel, Guy Debord, Hind Khoury, Irelandreland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, James Cameron, Khader Adnan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Meir Dagan, Naomi Klein, Nicky Larkin, Slavoj Zizek, Zehava Gal-On
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blinded by the light
When Noam Chomsky first began writing about American involvement in Vietnam, the writing was taught, concise, well researched and quite clear in explaining Republicanism and monopoly capital. After that intellectual surge the avant-gard academia gradually devolved into the Anarch–Marxist washing, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Amona expulsion, Arafat meets Pope John Paul II, Ariel Sharon, Col. Shalom Eisner, ehud olmert, gush katif, Gush Katif museum, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, MK Danon, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, robert Mock, Slavoj Zizek, tony judt, tony kushner
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pacifist contentions
The 1%. Concpiracy theories. You have to look at the Occupy Wall Street movement and other essentially left movements, and the reactions, as part of a long history of who controls history and the agenda of the Western narrative. To … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Brian and Terrence McKenna, Brian McKenna, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, marcel ophuls, Naomi Klein, Naomi Klein Shock Doctrine, pacifism, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Ted Kotcheff, The Valor and the Horror documentary, the valour and the horror documentary
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triple A cowboys under review
…and who say institutional traders, stock traders locked into the world of the desk have no sense of humor. Its an arcane little world that leftist populism wants to take one by one and lynch from the nearest sturdy branch. … Continue reading
forward to the past
Does authenticity have anything to do with the truth or are we conflating an idealized sense of self with a public perception of populism? Today, the mantra among the political pundits is that authenticity serves as the means to gain … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged american gothic, Andrew Potter, Grant Wood American Gothic, harry truman turnip day, Helen Levitt photography, Jared Diamond, joe klein, marshall brain, martin ford, Michael Ferguson, Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, Ron Paul
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politics, cash & art: from sublime to ridiculous
Is it the commodification of everything? Sometimes its hard to tell the difference between the programming and the commercials, with sometimes the latter being more authentic and less predictable since it sometimes captures fragments of the cultural dialogue that the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Adbusters, coldplay back to the start, eminem chrysler, fed ex dominoes, Max Horkheimer, milton friedman, Naomi Klein, nissan leaf gas powered everything, Noam Chomsky, praise tabernacle grosse pointe, Rube Goldberg, Simon Houpt, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, Thorstein Veblen, Vance Packard, willie nelson
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occupy the authentic
Its a complete distortion and perversion of some very profound thinking by the likes of Viktor Frankl and his will to meaning. The experiences of a holocaust death camp survivor filtered through the maze of pop culture into a reified … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged 10cc, Andrew Potter, Chris Hedges, cornel west, Guy Debord, Henry Adams, John Sloan, laura ingalls wilder, Lionel Trilling, Michael Moore, Michael Pollan, mike moffatt, miles orvell, Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf, stephen crane, susan pinker, Thorstein Veblen, Viktor Frankl, Walt Whitman
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