Tag Archives: occupy wall street

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 →

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decorative design about decoration

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artvhantry.com) Cool as meaningless decor….hated nest ( magazine). thought it was really really bad and ignorantly designed by an amateur . i couldn’t look at it without getting furious at how stupid it was. then everybody … Continue reading →

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flaneurs and collectors

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Dave

A fascination with the banal, the purely mediocre or downright almost instantly obsolescent; the unspectacular and all that is the antithesis of the Society of the Spectacle. An effort to exploit, better still, to redefine and re-perceive the radical potential … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged arlo guthrie, Charles Baudelaire, Franz Hessel, Franz Kafka, Franz Rosenzweig, Frederico Fellini, Gustave Caillebotte, Harold Bloom, Max Horkheimer, occupy wall street, Pete Seeger, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

gray: the rational color of cash

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Dave

The melting down, in the cold grey mornings of late Fall and early winter: society, religion and feeling. Ultimately one’s own sanity. Is there anywhere to run in the cover of shrinking daylight that is safe, a refuge from personal … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Albrecht Durer, Allan Greenspan, Andrew Gough, Barack Obama 2012, David Teniers, frank ogawa park, Franz Kafka, John Maynard Keynes, joseph heath, Lars von Trier, madness grey day, Marcel Duchamp, Michael Lewis, Noam Chomsky, occupy oakland, occupy wall street, Thorstein Veblen, tyler cowen | Leave a comment

bringing discontent to market

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Dave

We are settling into the winter of our discontent. A grey winter.Short days and grey skies. Optimism and hope are overcast. Is this gray a new dawn we are witnessing or a dusk? Is this the gray of a decaying … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alvin Toffler, Bill Moyers, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Louis Bezard, john dewey, occupy wall street, Robert Heilbroner, Thomas Frank, Thorstein Veblen, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

democracy is messy: get used to it

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Dave

Perhaps we are going back to the roaring eighteenth-century where people learned to live with riots as they did with disease and death. It becomes part of the nature in society. Background noise. The French Revolution changed the nature of … Continue reading →

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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

business is business: 20% solution

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Dave

Balzac: Behind every great fortune is a great crime….Cornel West? No. Noam Chomsky? no. Slavoj Zizek? no. The single academic who has done the most to influence the nascent movement of Occupy Wall Street is someone almost completely under the … Continue reading →

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I’d rather be a weed

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Dave

It can be plausibly argued that violence does cause thinking. If peace was predominant, there would never be much occasion for thoughtful reflection. So, thinking is bound to violence, and violence seems the janus-faced side of civilization. And, the trick … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged alexia nader, Allen Ginsberg, Chris Hedges, christopher caudwell, cornel west, Howard Zinn, marshall rosenberg, michel maiofiss, Noam Chomsky, occupy wall street, Paul Krugman, victor villasenor, Walt Whitman | Leave a comment

99% percent proof: illusion of the target

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Dave

The underclass is always more vital than the higher strata, unburdend by the baggage of bourgeois liberal morality, preachings of violence which justifies borrowing, exploiting, and finally cannibalizing all transgressive life into commodity kitsch and diluted into pablum. The American … Continue reading →