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Tag Archives: Thorstein Veblen
edwardian divide
Some disquieting similarities between the Edwardian Age, the flowering of capitalism in the era of Thorstein Veblen, running into the tide of modernism and consumer culture ; and today’s dawn of post modernism on the cusp of the service economy … Continue reading
the corset: odic force and nature’s law
…The corset’s crippling effects on the female body were persistently ignored, much as today we ignore the consequences of wearing deforming shoes. The would-be guardian of our health, the physician, whose business it is to keep us in good working … Continue reading
beauty: advanced techniques of disfigurement
…The corset of our great grandmothers and even further back was a masterpiece of functional design. It operated on three levels- mechanical, aesthetic, and moral. “The corset,” wrote Thorstein Veblen, the foremost portraitist of the leisure class, under the category … Continue reading
price anxiety
One of the fascinating consequences of an inflationary world is the strong emotions it generates for material objects. Although it does promote competitive buying of intrinsically valuable goods, from houses to jewels, it also provokes a hatred of waste. Rather, … Continue reading
llegally parked
….A sort of funny story that fits squarely into the cultural idiom of the Eastern European mentality. It incorporates the rather late arrival into the world of consumer capitalism and much of what Thorstein Veblen called “conspicuous waste.” The pure … Continue reading
trying to find their way home
Its hard to define exactly why the television series Homeland gives rise to such completely opposite sentiments, other than at its base, there is a deep seated and ingrained Christian bias against the Semite in general, and its complementary identity … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Adrien Henri Tanoux, D.H. Lawrence, Edward Said, Homeland HBO, Homeland television program, Jack Shaheen, Leon Bonnat, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mandy Patinkin, Sheila Murphy, Stuart Hall, Thorstein Veblen
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fanon:betrayal of the masses
Frantz Fanon. The prophet scorned. Fifty years after his death, this theorist of revolution still echoes sentiments pertinent today but whether they are relevant in an era of post-modernism is open to question… …Fanon’s third theme is the betrayal of … Continue reading
wanton display: noble disregard
The noble houses of eighteenth-century England… Diverse as were the economic enterprises and huge as the domestic staaffs came to be, yet these things do not explain entirely why men built such vast palaces. The need to maintain their social … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrea Palladio, Audley End England, British Aristocracy eighteenth century, Grinling Gibbons carvings, Houghton Hall, Houghton Hall England, Kwakiutl Indians Canada, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Palladio architecture, Paul Sandby paintings, Sir Robert Walpole, Thorstein Veblen, William Kent Architect, Wilton double cube room
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fiscal cliffs: mind over chatter
Scientific charity. In railways, steel and finance, Andrew Carnegie was a cool,rational man and his ventures into charity were meant to be scientific as well… In 1889 Andrew Carnegie, in his usual bold and provocative manner, stated his philosophy of … Continue reading
in the end the butler did it
No alibi, No guru. No teacher. Once upon a time in the east….Apparently the butler did do it…Its so complicated that its not worth really understanding the underlying dynamics of Chinese politics within the context of their national agenda. China, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Bo Xilai, Charlie Chan, Charlie Chan detective, Gao Qun Shu Wind Blast, Gu Kailai, He Weifang Peking, Ma Jian exiled Chinese novelist, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Neil Heywood, Neil Heywood murder, Niall Ferguson China, President Hu Jintao, Sakata Oddjob, Si Weijiang, Tang Yigan, Thorstein Veblen, Zhang Xiaojun
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