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status system: picking through the wreckage
…With the Keynesian economy operating at full throttle, it can be said that idleness and wealth have been scattered with a generous hand, and everyone is condemned to be a consumer to some degree. The heady atmosphere of abundance has … Continue reading
Structural Linguists: rareified style
A faint notion of the rarefied realms in which Structural Linguists operated, and the mode in which they wrote, could be easily grasped through a random sampling of the style. From Syntactic Structures by Noam Chomsky ( 1957): When transformational … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Korzybski, Iggy Pop, Leonard Bloomfield, Noam Chomsky, William Burroughs
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grammatical fears? try the fold-in method
The phrases “literary inhibitions” and “grammatical fears” are revealing as a sort of post-modern aesthetic that had their roots particularly in the jargon and anti-language of the Beat poets and writing as a performance art. in their crude way they … Continue reading
ready for an american lenin?
Are we ready for an American Lenin? Or a Mao? Or even a Gandhi? Will “make love not war” ever give way to “make revolution not love”; until then the odds are doubtful… Many people assert that a revolutionary situation … Continue reading
the naked gunslinger
by Art Chantry: wm. burroughs loved guns. he was photographed shooting guns so many times that it was a standard deal when you dropped by to visit him that you’d go out back and shoot with him, then get your … Continue reading
its about ideas: language of graphic design
by Art Chantry: i found this mag and snagged it immediately. i ASSUMED it was an early warhol magazine cover (done for the infamous “draw binky” ‘Famous Artists Correspondence School” magazine partly owned by norman rockwell, no less!) but, when … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, art chantry, Ben Shahn, david stone martin, ed fotheringham, Logan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mudhoney piece of cake, nathan gluck, nieman marcus, Norman Rockwell, Paul Klee, William Burroughs
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under cover stock options
The premise of the show, Under Cover Boss was in the vein of Reality television, low cost programming that would convey a sense of authenticity and distill a sense of community of interests between those on the bottom of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Edouard Manet, edouard manet olympia, Larry O'Donnell WMI, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso Demoiselles D'Avignon, reality television, Theodor Adorno, Thorstein Veblen, Undercover Boss CBS, Waste Management Company, William Burroughs
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the spoken word and its double
Weird Stuff.But brilliant. Steve “Jesse” Bernstein. Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Lou Reed; looking under the rocks of the American fantasy and examining a sensibility of the irrational when fantasy and reality are at each other’s throats. An American product but … Continue reading