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Tag Archives: Vance Packard
status seekers : moving ladders
Famed sociologist W. Lloyd Warner believed that a status system is in fact desirable for a society to have. “The principle of rank and status,” he wrote, “is necessary to provide men with the motives to excel by striving for … Continue reading
politics, cash & art: from sublime to ridiculous
Is it the commodification of everything? Sometimes its hard to tell the difference between the programming and the commercials, with sometimes the latter being more authentic and less predictable since it sometimes captures fragments of the cultural dialogue that the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Adbusters, coldplay back to the start, eminem chrysler, fed ex dominoes, Max Horkheimer, milton friedman, Naomi Klein, nissan leaf gas powered everything, Noam Chomsky, praise tabernacle grosse pointe, Rube Goldberg, Simon Houpt, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, Thorstein Veblen, Vance Packard, willie nelson
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mix, match and catch
There are so many different strands of thought regarding “dissent”, essentially a critique of society, think back to old books like Vance Packard and Rachel Carson that our parents may have read, or even more profoundly the type of criticism … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged David Reisman, Donald Kuspit, Erich Fromm, Henry Jenkins, James Cameron, jim carrey, John Heartfield, Jonathan McIntosh, kim kardashian, participatory culture, Political Remix Videos PRV, Rex Murphy, scott walker, Vance Packard
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body and soul sold separately
Does our pop culture reinforce Western materialism by playing on commercial images which represent people as commodities, a sort of person, hyper-unrealistic, objectified, stereotyped into another object of the consumer culture spectacle.An endless process of the hollowing out of appearances, … Continue reading
mailer: writer with a loud hailer
Norman Mailer’s The White Negro from 1957.The search for rebels of his generation led to the hipster. A prophetic inquiry into violence and rebellion? Or a basic re-packaging of his Harvard education into its logical extension which was a … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Al Jolson, Allen Ginsberg, Constance Rourke, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Jimmy Breslin, Lou Reed, mezz messrow, Norman Mailer, patti smith, Peter Max, rachael carson, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Vance Packard
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grape nuts: birth of a nation
grape nuts. marketing waste product to human chickens? There ain’t nobody here but us chickens. I’m o.k. but you’re not o.k. y’know just down there. Create a demand and fill it….. Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ): Do you know what … Continue reading
MARCUSE: IS THERE AN APP FOR A REVOLUTION?
His economic ideas belong in the bone yard, and his understanding of organizational decision making resembles that of ”a camel is a horse designed by a committee ” school. But his ideas on aesthetics and art, likely a byproduct of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bergson, Dali, Douglas Kellner, Felix Guattari, Fred J. Cook, Gilles Deleuze, Goethe, henri Bergson, Herbert Marcuse, Jacques Derrida, Jean Paul Sartre, Laura Marcus, Martin Heidegger, Maurizio Cattelan, Michel Foucault, Peter Nicholls, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Vance Packard
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