Tag Archives: Ron English

pataphysics of dead people: recycling the vendors

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Dave

Advertising does really define our world. In the Western culture of entertainment, advertising assumes the role of both structure and content.We can fake our rage against the machine, but are constantly putting our paws in the cookie jar. The focus … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alfred Jarry, Billboard Liberation Front, Caravaggio, catherine gudis, craig baldwin, French Situationist, Guy Debord, Herman Hesse, mark dery, Martin Buber, Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology, Ralph Nader, Ron English, ronald wayne, Steve Jobs, Theodore Roszak | Leave a comment

rothschild & buber: real life is encounters with the 133 year bond

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Dave

its an incongruous combination that two men so patently different should somehow be connected inextricably to the Jewish people and a jewish homeland. On the one hand, Baron Edmond de Rothschild feared zionism, had an anathema for democracy, and became, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous | Tagged Chaim Weitzmann, David Druck, Edmond de Rothschild, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gandhi, Israeli revolution orchestra, Joseph Trumpeldor, Martin Buber, Ron English, Steven Johnston, Theodor Herzl, Victor Hugo | Leave a comment

/b/:LET THEM EAT MARBLE CAKE

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Dave

We have become accustomed to thinking about 4Chan as the breeding ground for memes as well as shaping the associated cultural reactions to such memes. There are other implications to 4Chan beside the obvious pop culture reading…. Alexis de Toqueville’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alex de Toqueville, Alfred Jarry, Amber Case, Ben Huh, Ben Popper, Billboard Liberation Front, Ceci Moss, Claire Bishop, Cole Stryker, Ctle Gage, Dominick Chen, Gabriella Coleman, Glenn Beck, Henry Jenkins, Jon Kelley BBC, Jude Sheerin, Kayne West, Laura Adams Hot Topic, Lev Grossman, Marcel Duchamp, Marcin Ramocki, Marshall McCluhan, Mary Bale, Nicholas Bourriaud, Peter Burger, Ron English, Whitney Phillips | Leave a comment

BAD SANTAS: CULTURE JAMMING CORPORATE XMA$

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Dave

What realistic future do you see for billboards? “Most people are now walking billboards, what with all the clothing logos on their togs. I suppose the next frontiers will be inner and outer space. Designer DNA encoded directly onto our … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Adbusters, Alfred Jarry, Billboard Liberation Front, Bombing Science, D.S.Black, Damien Hirst, Guy Debord, Janet Lee, Jessica Hall, Joey Skaggs, Naomi Klein, Ogden Nash, Phil Knight, Phil Knight Nike, Ron English | Leave a comment

PORTION GENEROSO: ORAL DESIRE A LA CARTE

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Dave

“Researching one of the seven deadly sins, gluttony, although food implies a consistent research into the bodily (taboos). To Nietzsche, largely responsible for rehabilitating the body in later humanistic thought, sinning is not a basic state of humanity, but merely … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Azi Paybarah, Billboard Liberation Front, Charles Rector's Restaurant, Daniel Lambert, Diamond Jim Brady, Edna McCauley, Edward Arnold, Francis Hyman, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Bernard Shaw, George Rector, Harry Paul Jeffers, Henrik Ibsen, Hieronymous Bosch, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, james Buchanan Brady, John L. Sullivan, John Lennon, John Mariani, John Milton, Lillian Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Michel Foucault, Orson Welles, Parker Morrell, Pieter Brueghel, Richard Avedon, Ron English, Saint John Chrysostom, Samson Agonistes, Shakespeare, Sigmund Freud, Stanford White | 2 Comments

“CULTURAL ACUPUNCTURE” : APPROPRIATION & HIPSTER REBELLION

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Dave

Pick your protest.Is this wave of political activism, from Black Bloc to Tea Party different from past manifestations? Every era has unique twists, but they are each not as different as you may think. This time it’s different?… Natalie Zemon … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Alex Leavitt, Alexander McQueen, Andrew Slack, art chantry, Arundhati Roy, Avatar, Avatar James Cameron, Barack Obama, Barbara B. Diefendorf, Billboard Liberation Front, Black Bloc, Carl franzen, Carla Alison Hesse, Charles Ess, Convergence Culture Consortium, Danto, David Simon Treme, Eric Hobsbawm, Foucault, Fred Askew, Gilles Deleuze, Hannah Arendt, harry Potter Alliance, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, Jeremy Hunsinger, Jeremy Popkin, Jerome Langguth, Nathalie Zemon Davis, Noam Chomsky, Rembrandt, Robert Crumb, Robert McChesney, Ron English, Slavoj Zizek, Sophia Tareen, Stephen Duncombe, Terrence Ranger, The Tea Party | Leave a comment

300 POUNDS OF JOY: THE SKINNY ON THE FLABBY

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Dave

Fat flabby annie was incredibly big She weighed just about sixteen stone And then a fake dietician went and put her on a diet Now she looks like skin and bone. Do the meditation and yoga And she’s thrown away … Continue reading →

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Art and Misdeameanors

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Dave

”All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may … Continue reading →

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Pirates of Consensual Reality

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Dave

” One should be aware that corporate speech and free speech are two completely different things … You can use a copyrighted character or brand logo to engage in social commentary. No one has ever won a lawsuit against me … Continue reading →

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Authentic Dissent & Brand Name Protest

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Dave

Its a de-subliminalization of advertisements. Where the unknown, perhaps hidden message in the advertising composition becomes revealed in a manner which the owner of the work did not intend. Also called ”subvertisements” these altered images are often impossible to differentiate, … Continue reading →