Tag Archives: Naomi Klein

occupy wall street: quantum levitation of the money supply

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Dave

Time to move on? OWS as celebrity sweepstakes?Is dissent politics nothing more than a fashion prototype for the military-entertainment complex? Politics as a series of spectacular satisfactions, like Coca Cola, “within an arm’s reach of desire.” Occupy Wall Street seems … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged adam ende, cornel west, david graeber guardian, Deepak Chopra, Michael Moore, Michael Posner Globe and Mail, Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf, occupy wall street, Roseanne Barr, Slavoj Zizek, susan sarandon, suze orman | Leave a comment

it was just about a stupid car

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Dave

The Shalit release, basically puts the spotlight back on Israel in terms of public relations. Its a subject that receives far too much coverage, yet at the same time, the state also permits the citizens of the world to work … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Uncategorized | Tagged Amos Oz, chaim weizmann, dan leon, gaddafi death, George Kara, Gideon Levy Haaretz, Martin Buber, Moshe Katsav, Naomi Klein, Ron Myberg, Shelly Yachimovich | 1 Comment

brand wash redemption

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Dave

The commodification of subjectivity. The critique of commodity psychology inevitably seems to be displaced and fractured, distorted, by the seductive appeal with which the commodity is portrayed: usually a fragmented fetish object from which different narratives emerge… From Joseph Heller … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Adbusters, bill zuk, Damien Hirst, joseph heath, Joseph Heller, Martin Lindstrom, Morgan Spurlock, Naomi Klein, paul watson greenpeace, robert dalton, Simon Houpt, the joneses 2009, Thorstein Veblen | 1 Comment

men of property

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Dave

Joseph Conrad characterized John Galsworthy as a moralist, someone who tended to betray instead of revealing ” the very truth of things.” In part, the sterling example of an ineffectual empathy, a sterile compassion that was reluctant to transform an … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Adbusters, Arnold Bennett, attilio pusterla, edward garnett, Emma Goldman, galsworthy the silver box, giovacchino toma, giuseppe pellizza da volpedo, H.G. Wells, John Galsworthy, john galsworthy the pigeon, John Sloan, John Stuart Mill, Joseph Conrad, joseph heath rebel sell, mary cassatt, Naomi Klein, ralph mctell streets of london, thomas frank the baffler, Virginia Woolf | Leave a comment

the one after 193

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Dave

Not something from the back of a cereal box. A real country. Or some neutered and coiffed Bantustan experiment with nifty uniforms and fan-far parades. Real borders and a real economy. Or a box within a box and the welfare … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Amy Goodman, artemisia Gentileschi, barack obama israel, cornel west, denis goldberg, Herman Melville, Jan van Eyck, jan van eyck ghent altarpiece, mahmoud abbas, meir margailt, Naomi Klein, Nicolas Poussin, noah j. efron, Noam Chomsky, palestinian statehood, Paul Klee, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Rembrandt, ronit lentin, yakov m. rabkin | Leave a comment

recycle the ideal: chasing the “it”

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Dave

Certainly Coke would not be the global brand it is without the Americanization of the global psyche.Coke is it. An artificial unfulfilled promise. After all, the product of the Coca Cola company is advertising and its creation of desire. “Coca … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Billy Wilder, carmen garcia, coca cola advertising, dimension 6 advertising, Henry Miller, Jean-Luc Godard, joseph heath, Michel Foucault, muhtar kent, muhtar kent coca cola, Naomi Klein, roberto cavalli coca cola, Roberto Cavalli Design, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek, the coca cola case, thomas frank the baffler | Leave a comment

when the revolution comes…

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Dave

Joseph Heath put it very superbly. The modern condition, modern marketing and how criticism of mass society ends up increasing the cycle of consumerism. How books like “No Logo” by Naomi Klein actually make us more brand conscious and how … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Adbusters, angie jackson, arnold mindell, ben courtice, bianca mugyenyi, Emma Goldman, Gloria Steinem, henry rollins, james woolsley, johan norberg, john bellamy foster, Jonathan Chait, Maurice Merleau Ponty, Naomi Klein, seymour martin lipset, Steve Earle, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, Tom Peters, yves engler | Leave a comment

bank reconciliation: file under… checks and balances

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Dave

DSK. A kind of brand name French luxury good that has been a bit tarnished lately. Like when automobile anti-freeze was found in Perrier mineral water. But, in the case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn these are the kinds of train wrecks … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alastair campbell, anne-elizabeth moutet, audre lord, claude estier, dominique strauss kahn, elisabeth badinter, francoise giroud, Henri Bernard-Levy, jack lang, James Gillray, Jean Louis Barrault, jean-francois kahn, lionel jospin, melissa bell, michelle goldberg, Naomi Klein, piroska nagy, robert-andre vivien, tabatha Southey, taubmann, Thomas Rowlandson, Tony Hayward, tristan banon | 2 Comments

culture jamming lineup at the cash

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Dave

Is culture jamming a trademark? A commodity that is more in the domain of an Adbusters and Naomi Klein and Michael Moore and perhaps even Noam Chomsky as popular tastemakers? I doubt Naomi Klein is going to be seen in … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Adbusters, Arthur Miller, bill schmalz, Consumerism, Culture Jamming, Grace Lee Boggs, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Stuart Mill, kalle lasn, Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, pierre bourdieu, Ron English, Shepard Fairey, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

recycling plastic fantastic : less than zero

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Dave

There is no question that gender and sexuality are the principal dynamics that underpin all modern marketing. This portrayal, the first division, the first cut of the economic and social pie, though ostensibly comic, even droll, is in fact ideological … Continue reading →