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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
Door prize: will the real Joan please identify herself
There is the strange and mysterious episode of the “false Joan of Arc” – or “false Joans of Arc,” for we cannot be quite sure now whether there were one or several pretenders…. Men, we may conjecture, did not quite … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Antonin Artaud, Carolyn Gage, Graham Greene, Jean le Maistre vice inquisitor, jean seberg, Joan of Arc The Maid, Jules Quicherat, Madame Pickwick, Mark twain Joan of Arc, otto preminger, Perceval de Cagny, Pierre Cauchon Bishop of Beauvais, Scherrer painter, Susan Crane, The Vigils of Charles the VII, The Vigils of Charles VII, Trial of Joan of Arc
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Promise them anything
…but give them a propadeutic scenario…. Bird’s guts, crystal balls, the stars in the heavens, tea leaves- individuals have resorted to all of these and more in an effort to foretel the future. Today, the seer’s tools are charts, statistics, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alvin Toffler, Anthony J. Wiener, Antonin Artaud, Futurology, Herman Kahn, Jean Paul Sartre, John William Waterhouse, Joseph L. Fisher, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Malthus, Marquis de Condorcet, Max Beckmann, Max Beckmann falling man, peter drucker, William Blake
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cargo cult: trek with the millenarian movement
Cargo cults. In times of stress, look for the prophets of an earthly paradise. A sense of deprivation gives birth to the cult. Its driving force: religious fervor and the superhuman agency. Its end: the destruction of the cult or … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Amanda Dawn Christie artist, Antonin Artaud, Cargo Cults, Code of Handsome Lake, Elijah Muhammad, F.C. Wallace, F.C. Wallace anthropologist, Fellini, Fidel Castro, Franco Fiorito, James Mooney anthropologist, Madame Pickwick, Mario Monti Italy, Peyote cults, Peyotism, Philleo Nash, Philleo Nash anthropologist, Toga Party Italian politicians, Wovoka jack Wilson
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ghost dance: shaman on the plains
Millennial cults. America has always been ready in times of stress to look for prophets, especially those not immune to the temptations of an earthly paradise. Whether from Handsome Lake, the Maharishi Yoga, or the many Teachers of Righteousness of … Continue reading
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
on thin ice with the mighty quinn
We pine for authenticity. The real . The genuine, wanting to graft ourselves onto it as part of an expression of our individuality. Or do we? It has to conform to our idea of it. Rousseau’s Noble Savage has to … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Potter, Anthony Quinn, Antonin Artaud, battle of sitka, Bob Dylan, franz boas, hans ruesch, james ross and awack, James ross inuit, Jared Diamond, Jean Jacques Rousseau, louis s. glanzman, Lucien m. turner, manfred mann the mighty quinn, Nicholas Wade, steven a. leblanc, suzuki sled commercial, the savage innocents 1959
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blue ribbon tank: hand fishing the ecstatic trance
The search for genuine American weirdness. To look for manifest destiny under all the rocks, roadside billboards and backwoods of the cultural bi-ways. The new series of Will Ferrell ads for Old Milwaukee is a case in point of combing … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Antonin Artaud, Bob Dylan, Edward Bernays, frank the tank, greil marcus old weird america, Harold Bloom, heckler and associates seattle, howard stern, jennifer aniston, kid rock pabst blue ribbon, limp bizkit, metropoulous brothers, old milwaukee advertising, pabst blue ribbon marketing, Richard Brautigan, Robert Crumb, Sigmund Freud, The Band, will ferrell
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