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divine claims from the secular spirits
Guides for the perplexed? The narcissism of small differences? Christopher Hitchens did write a book called Be Prepared for the Worst. So, even in an atheist like Hitchens there is a little ping somewhere. There is a famous quote by … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Chaim Soutine, chaim weizmann, Christopher Hitchens, Clement Greenberg, e.p. sanders, isaac deutscher, Jackson Pollock, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Chagall, Martin Buber, mother teresa, Pablo Picasso, rabbi pinchas scheinberg, Rosa Luxemburg
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wall street : hot under a blue collar
If anything, the eviction of the Occupy Wall Street protestors has simply evoked the long-standing fallacy of Joseph Stiglitz’s assertion of the 1% vs. 99% thesis. The police. Those on blue know where the bread is buttered and those in … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Abbott and Costello, Alexander Cockburn, Blue Labour, Charlie Chaplin, david north, Esther Leslie, IWW, Joseph Stiglitz, keystone cops, lisa ansell, mark ciavarella, Maurizio Cattelan, michael bloomberg occupy wall street, michael conahan, Noam Chomsky, Norman Rockwell, occupy wall street, peter mcbrien, peter taaffe, ralph miliband, Rosa Luxemburg, sam gompers, stephen shalom, The Wobblies, zuccotti park
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halloween 365: old costumes new cultures
There is a perversion of the sacred in using and framing advertising and cinematic depictions of women, designating them as spaces of cultural remembrance and extending the narrative to create an entire “pop culture” out of the conflicts and tensions … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Anita Sarkeesian, Charles Baudelaire, diane di prima, Feminist frequency, janet jacobs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, maria farland, Michael Moore, Rosa Luxemburg, Thorstein Veblen, Walter Benjamin, will lammert
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trotsky: the jargon of the trojan horse?
It was all the young, impatient, implacable todays since the beginning of time shouting down the tired, timid old yesterdays… Trotsky was still in exile in New York when the March Revolution overthrew the czarist regime in 1917. He rushed … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged aleksandr galich, alexander rodchenko, elena bonner, isaac deutscher, jamie glazov, john brownlee, kerensky, lazar kaganovich, Lenin, Leon Trotsky, nikolai yezhov, Rosa Luxemburg, sahkarov, soviet poster art, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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may day: wet dynamite eventually dries
What the theorists of May Day revolution had failed to take into account were the traditional and only partly conscious associations of the date itself. For centuries it had been a particularly relaxed popular holiday, given over to joyous singing, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Brecht, Fernand Leger, hans eisler, James Frazer, John Heartfield, jules guesde, Meryl Streep, Rosa Luxemburg, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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WEIMAR REPUBLIC and the UNCANNY “SECOND SIGHT”
“A member asked what was the ethos of German Expressionism, suggesting it was ‘cultural despair’. The speaker reiterated his title phrase: ‘an explosive cocktail of cultural despair and political instability’, adding that the German character seemed almost morbid in its … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alma Mahler, Bauhaus Art, Bertolt Brecht, Carl Zuckermayer, Chris Hedges, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Emil Jannings, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Grosz, George J.W. Goodman, Heinrich Mann, Howard Buffet, James Turk, Josef Albers, Kurt Weill, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Louis Proyect, Lyonel Feininger, Marianne Faithfull, Marlene Dietrich, Max Beckmann, Noam Chomsky, Otto Dix, Paul Gough, Paul Klee, Peter Rex Valentine, Richard Nixon, Rosa Luxemburg, Seth Taylor, Walter Gropius, Warren Buffet, Wassily Kandinsky
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LOST BERLIN:BABYLON & BOOGIE AT THE BRANDENBURG GATE
A macabre gaiety pervaded Berlin like an intoxicating smog. There was no shortageof drink, drugs, or beautiful women. “There are two kinds of places,” wrote a contemporary of Bertolt Brecht, ” those one talks about, and those one doesn’t talk … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Anita Berber, Bertolt Brecht, Dave Riley, Dita Von Teese, Duke Ellington, Erich Maria Remarque, Fassbinder, George Grosz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jason Lutes, Joel Dorn, John Fuegi, Josephine Baker, Katherine Farmar, Kurt Weill, Leni Riefenstahl, Liza Minelli, Luigi Bazini, Marlene Dietrich, Mel Gordon, Nina Hagen, Robert J. Sternberg, Rosa Luxemburg, Sander L. Gilman, Scott J. Thompson, Shinan Govani, Solomon Asch, Stephen Lemons, Thomas Mann, Vladimir Nabokov, Walter Benjamin, Werner Fassbinder, Wolf Von Eckardt
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