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Tag Archives: Theodore Roszak
those dodgy heretics: mystic encounters of the third kind
The heretics who dodged the inconvenient texts of Scripture by allegory and symbolism relied ultimately on mysticism. Not all mystics of course were heretics; it seemed to depend on which texts they dodged. But the basic theory of mysticism was … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alumbrados, Alumbrados burned in Catholic Spain, Bohemian Adamites, Christian Messianism, Christian mysticism, Christian mystics, English Ranters, French Libertines, Gary Cooper, harpo marx, jack benny, Matthew Fox, Pietists persecuted, Quakerism, Sandro Botticelli, The Ranters, The Zohar, Theodore Roszak
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desert getaway
The Thebaid, a fourteenth-century painting attributed to Gherardo Starnina depicts the Egyptian desert around Thebes as teeming with anchorites. The body of Saint Paul, the first Christian hermit and a contemporary of Saint Anthony , is shown in repose at … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aristotle, Edward Gibbon, gherardo starnina, Hieronymous Bosch, martin schongauer, Saint Anthony, saint anthony hermit, Samuel Beckett, Socrates, the anchorites, the stylites, Theodore Roszak, Tom Lubbock
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catty and chatty
Too much dialogue in a film and too little. Its a general that many very successful films have almost little dialogue. But what of the other extreme, where the cinematic effort is running after the dialogue like a car chasing … Continue reading
pataphysics of dead people: recycling the vendors
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
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2+2 =5 the arithmatic of rational liberalism
Certainly, George Orwell’s 1984 struck a responsive chord among natural enemies- the left and right- that it said a great deal about the world in which they lived. Both factions draw what they please from it, but they usually miss … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Carl Jung, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Kellner, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, George Woodcock, Malcolm Muggeridge, Michel Foucault, Scott Lucas, Sigmund Freud, Theodore Roszak, Walter Benjamin
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reason to believe or be deceived: who’s zoomin’ who
The struggle between generations is one of the most obvious constants.The 1960′s were not unique in this sense, but were unique in terms of radical dissent and cultural innovation; an extreme form of alienation transformed from the typical peripheral experience … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex de Toqueville, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Penn, Bruce Eisner, California Nature Boys, Country Joe and the Fish, Country Joe MacDonald, Edmund Burke, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G.K. Chesterton, Irving Kristol, John Cippolina, John Richter, Owsley Bear Stanley, Owsley Stanley, Phil Lesh, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Roger Kimball, Samuel Beckett, The Grateful Dead, Theodore Roszak, William Burroughs
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owsley bear :looking for habitats of unreason
A justifiable flight from reason? I human life inevitably alienating? At a very base and primal level does this alienation and its pathological impulse to dominate make an easy excuse to justify exploitation and thus rationalize our present societal structure?Was … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Eisner, Charles Reich, Eisner, Erich Fromm, J.W. Waterhouse, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jeffrey Mishlove, Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, Owsley Bear Stanley, Owsley Stanley, R.D. Laing, Theodore Roszak, Timothy Leary, Tom Wolfe, Walt Disney, Watteau
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praises of folly: flights of reason
Is a flight from reason to be deplored or hailed? Is the flight from reason a social pathology of apocalyptic proportions….There was an importance in protesting problems such as Vietnam, Racial equality,and income inequality among other ills, but it can … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Alvin Toffler, Frank Zappa, Hieronymous Bosch, Irving Penn, James Blunt, Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, Konrad Lorenz, Mark Levinson, Michael Carlson, Michel Foucault, Owsley Bear Stanley, Owsley Stanley, The Grateful Dead, Theodore Roszak, Timothy Leary, Vassar Clements
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participation: connecting to a loud hailer
Social media has been around a long time. How long? Probably as long as people have been gossiping, searching true love and willing to share. Certainly the Italians singing to each other as they hung out the wash was-the origins … Continue reading
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Tagged Facebook memes, graphic design, Henry Jenkins, Hitweek Dutch magazine, Jacques Ellul, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, Maximidia Brazil, social media history, Theodore Roszak, Timothy Leary, Tom Hanks
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