Tag Archives: Allan Ginsberg

bumpy ride: back seat hider

Mobilize yourself. Come travel but forgo aesthetic or metaphorical niceties. Its a bumpy ride in the early days of conceptual art especially one aimed to outrage, aimed at the perceived social castration, aimed at a nightmarish urban vision. Disaffection personified … Continue reading

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soul portrait: mirror of the moon

Is there a moon in the soul, slivery shivers of light acting as an electro-magnetic field absorbing and expanding sensorial perceptions, like a flashlight vaguely illuminating a dark and unknown attic of our mind…. I saw the best minds of … Continue reading

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nomad economics: wandering with the 99%

… it was the small is beautiful view that Jane Jacobs professed. The city, the urban space was a piece of female architecture, a metaphor for woman and it was being terribly abused. Raped, violated and beaten, it was only … Continue reading

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zoot: just another way to get the gal

It went with the territory. The American dream was rubbish. They would never be admitted to white middle class America. The New Deal was no deal. Why should they appease the same set of values that corralled then forcibly placed … Continue reading

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wearing a mask that grins and lies

We often have a sometimes contradictory and ambiguous relationship to popular culture. In one way, its potentially powerful means to share knowledge and criticize consumer society across different boundaries in an oppositional and sometimes subversive manner. However, against this backdrop, … Continue reading

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Interbeing & Deep ecology : nirvanic discontent?

At Borobudur, unlike the Acropolis, the landscape and the architecture are not contending with one another; they are in harmony. At Borobudur the builder has completely hidden the hill, from its flanks to its crown, but in hiding it he … Continue reading

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Interbeing & Deep ecology : nirvanic discontent?

At Borobudur, unlike the Acropolis, the landscape and the architecture are not contending with one another; they are in harmony. At Borobudur the builder has completely hidden the hill, from its flanks to its crown, but in hiding it he … Continue reading

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The CAMEL, The SPHINX and Diverse HinjinXXX

Euphemisms tend to lose their protective magic at a fairly rapid rate. Like Sisyphus, the moralists can never seem to to carry, drag or otherwise schlep that ball to the top of the mountain and give it back to its … Continue reading

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FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET: Sail Away to Victimhood

Huckleberry Finn as everyman. Chronic suffering of brain cramps, broken by occasional lapses of sanity. The decision by a publishing house, NewSouth Books, from Alabama,  to exchange the nigger word in Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn”, , for “slave” , or … Continue reading

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MARCUSE HOT & STICKY: EM-BODY THE BODY POLITIC

“All Verbs: ream, spin, veer, span, cross, ram, peel, charge, pitch, verge, switch, shoot, slide, cram, goad, clash, cleave, fetch, clamp, lean, swap, butt, crook, split, jut, hack, break, stroke, stop.“ — Lozano notebook page dated 1964/67. Sex and Drugs and … Continue reading

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