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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
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
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
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
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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Allan Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Bell Hooks, Frantz Fanon, franz fanon, Grace Lee Boggs, jane campion, jean michel basquiet, jodie foster, joseph heath, Joshua Glenn, Julian Schnabel, norman kelley, Norman Mailer, Robert Hughes, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, zora neale hurston
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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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alexander Cockburn, Alfred C. Kinsey, Allan Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg, Havelock Ellis, James Franco, James Panero, James Thompson, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Jennifer Peto, Jerry Aronson, John J. Ray, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, M.L. Ernst, Mae West, Norman A. Rubin, Peter Fryer, Theodor Adorno, Theodore Schroeder, Thomas Martin, Thomas Rowlandson, W. Seagle
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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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alex Thomas, Allan Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Motion, D.H. Lawrence, Eminen, Francoise Duresse, Graeme Dalling, Howard Jacobson, Huckleberry Finn, James Baldwin, Joe Speare, John Mullan Guardian, John Steinbeck, Kara Walker, Mark Twain, Michael Franti, Nathaniel Turner, Nicholas Lezard, Nicholas Lezard Guardian, Randy Newman, Richard Wright, Samuel Clemens, Shaquille O'Neal, The Finkler Question
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