Tag Archives: Robert Mapplethorpe

avoid talking head syndrome

Brilliant Disguise. Talking head syndrome that grim reaps the shadows and obscurity that misting ancient time has gathered as blanket to the covering light.

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redondo speech

Meme mash-up that incorporates the poetry of Pete Brown, Patti Smith and that inner you yearning to break-out and expand the limits of the universe. All in the good name of Madame Pickwick. Is it intrinsic, does it appear to … Continue reading

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hilltops to the sea

The government implies the settlers relationship to the land exists only in a nominal sense, a legal and technical sense grounded in international law, and the larger sense of the international community and its administrative apparatus. A nominal sense for … Continue reading

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corpse poetics

Working with death as an aesthetic. Is it purely the shocking or a continuation of the gothic and the more macabre elements of romanticism, in the tracks of Henry Fuseli passing through Goya’s horrors of war, Kafka hybrid-human creatures and … Continue reading

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birds of prey

Very angry birds. Hard to believe. In fact, superficially, it triggers disbelief. Can we blame the system of capitalism, neo-liberalism imposed on third-world countries, or rather perversely, is this their Thorstein Veblen response of raising status and distinction by being … Continue reading

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light beyond the sinister rhetoric of gender

The sinister rhetoric of gender. It seems to rationalize a sublime fear of the dreaded anxiety of disorganized organic being. The absurdity of the masculine warrior figure. But what is the individual if not a mass of disorganized form, a … Continue reading

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force feeding a permeable society

The artist’s treatment of the individual does in many respects, though not definitively, reflect a culture’s attitude towards itself. There is a grey zone between kitsch and perversity, as if they gravitate to one another creating a rather violent aesthetic. … Continue reading

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prisoner of love: escaping the gatekeeper

Attacking the bourgeois values, but the greater the assault the more apparent that the author, in his own particular way, was part of the elite, canonized as cultural commodity himself, like Burroughs and Ginsberg, an icon, a spokesman for articulating … Continue reading

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dionysus: an ecstatic death with a directed soul

So now, as always, Dionysus shows himself in his traditional forms- alluring,pansexual; madness reigns, an urge to dance comes over people, a trance inducing beat can be heard from the mountains, and the wine is uncorked. But if Dionysus is … Continue reading

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EFFING THIS & EFFING THAT: ART & POLITICS OF FUDDLE DUDDLE

Puritanism: as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” ( H.L. Mencken ) Fornication Under Consent of the King. For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Fuckedandfarfromhome. The F-Bomb ….”How do you people really feel about doing it? Isn’t that about … Continue reading

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