Tag Archives: Theodor Adorno

stuck in the in-between space

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Dave

Clearly, the kind of virulent Arab anti-Semitism, or rather anti-Israel easily spilling, absurdly, into a kind of biological racism is not endemic to the Arab world in the same way that characterized the Jewish experience in Europe from east to … Continue reading →

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In the jaws of the crocodile

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Dave

People are the product of history. The way nations see, dress, think and formulate reality are much based on the parameters that over time, form a wall of convention, the box to which the comfort zone of convenience installs and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Aaron ben Moses, Bashar Al Assad, Cal Shenkel, Captain Beefheart, Charles Manson, Hassan Nasrallah, Ibn Sahl manuscript, Judith Butler, Maimonides, Margaret Atwood The Blind Assasin, Max Horkheimer, Mursi Egypt, Snell's law, The Aleppo Codex, Theodor Adorno | Leave a comment

planet of the apeing

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Dave

Interesting article on Andrew Potter, who with Joseph Heath wrote Rebel Sell. Potter’s ideas are not unique or original but they are placed within the context of contemporary pop culture in an easy to grasp everyperson’s manner that strip out … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Andrew Potter, David Mcraney, Herbert Marcuse, joseph heath, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Mitt Romney 2012, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, Toulouse-Lautrec, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

wicked gravity: cut ups and downs

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Dave

Love and theft. Plundered, pillaged, worn and shorn. The fragmentary reality that nothing is totally new, it just gets cut up and re-pasted in new and ingenious ways. The background screens and templates remain vitally similar, but the contexts keep … Continue reading →

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spiritually diseased please

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Dave

There was a famous line attributed to Walter Benjamin that captures somewhat the problem the Nazi’s had with what they termed “degenerate art,” which lacked the necessary material underpinnings to easily transform itself into unchallenging kitsch. Benjamin’s “logical result of … Continue reading →

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cartoon messiah: a walt misery construction

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Dave

…A struggle between the divine and the mythical, Jacob and the Angel as point of departure and building block for a political struggle that of necessity and consequence collides and challenges the established law. Since the beginning, there has always … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Anarchism David Graeber, Ben Bernanke, Bob Dylan, Christopher Nolan, David Graeber, david graeber guardian, Max Horkheimer, Milton Glaser, Sigmund Freud, TD Canada Trust, TD Money Lounge, TD Money Lounge Canada, Theodor Adorno, Umberto Eco, Walter Nejamin, Wayne Gretzky | Leave a comment

obamarama: once upon a time in the west

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Dave

Barack Obama and the slogan for 2012: “Go Forward” well defined theme that captures the leftist messianism that seems so misguided, corrupted and dysfunctional. A messianic pursuit of secular divinity and backed by trashy rags like the New York Times, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged arab spring, Barack Obama 2012, Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood, Dan Halutz, Edward Said, Franz Kafka, Henry Fonda, International Day for Democracy, Jason Robards, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Mohamad Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood Egypt, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Pope Benedict XVI Lebanon, Stevens ambasador Libya, Theodor Adorno, thomas friedman new york times, thomas l. friedman, Walter Benjamin, Zvi Rav-Ner | Leave a comment

chill out: religion doesn’t grow on trees

Posted on September 1, 2012 by Dave

Judith Butler is a major critic of the state of Israel. Like many in left, far left academia, they occupy a higher moral ground than the common and mortal, the unwashed who may actually have to do some real work … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Avi Nesher, Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, larry summers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Buber, Max Horkheimer, Steven Plaut, Summers Harvard, Theodor Adorno, Tom Paulin Oxford, uri avnery | Leave a comment

throw a rock of ages

Posted on September 1, 2012 by Dave

Are there legitimate reasons to criticize what is perceived as extreme left foreign policy. The supporting of a gaggle of twisted ideologies and Islamic fundamentalists heck bent for leather as the Gipper would say? Is there good reason to explain … Continue reading →

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hail to the chief

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Dave

Theodor Adorno basic thesis was that repression and domination, were part and parcel, intrinsic to the functioning of liberal democratic societies as well as totalitarian fascist ones. The individual as mere exchange value, a commodity, or simple vending machine was … Continue reading →