Tag Archives: Bell Hooks Outlaw Culture

sinking feeling

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Dave

To Marxists, capitalisms imminent sinking was symbolic in the Titanic. A hundred years later the Commies fell into a pit and capitalism is still around; heavily flawed and perhaps redeemable if the global plutocracy can be dismembered. Oh yeah, that … Continue reading →

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panning for the wild

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Dave

Fantasy as the idealization of desire. Permeating liberalism and enlightenment thinking has always been a racist undertone, the collander, the sieve, of secularism that disposes of the chaff into a compost heap. The thinking that brought forth romanticism as corrupted … Continue reading →

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the jazz swingers

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Dave

African masks. The surrealists and the fetish for the African mask. The Man Ray photographs, the Demoiselles D’Avignon of Picasso in which cubsim collapsed the figurative. The African iconography and jazz was a metaphor for the exotic and a key … Continue reading →

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for what is honor

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Dave

God forbid. god forbid. god forbid. Gender division has nothing to do with god. It is a human construction. A devised, contrived, set of human boundaries that has promoted untold suffering, degrading both victim and victimizer. Boundaries based on sex … Continue reading →

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outlaw culture : posse platoon

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Dave

After reading Bell Hooks Outlaw culture, the following news item about gang member infiltration in the military has little of shock value and in fact, is entirely comprehensible.The gangs, “gangstra” culture, misogynous and spaces of male patriarchy are a complementary … Continue reading →

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outlaw culture: drawn to darkness

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Dave

Drawn to darkness and obscurity, but with a tenacious grip onto the light. Pure forms existing, withstanding, even though they convey impressions of isolation and alienation. There is a heroism of the outlaw, a kind of aesthetic, a beauty of … Continue reading →

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songs of love and hate: shoot the boer

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Dave

Is rap music a cultural commodity basically to titillate and spice up the mayonnaise and white bread diet of the white audience? The hyper-masculine enlivening experiences within a dominant, essentially conservative, consumerist, racist and militant preponderant white society with its … Continue reading →

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a sagging and bagging story

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Dave

The pull up your pants law. With a recession and lots of people with extra time on their hands. The law is part of a more complex social issue that says more about white culture’s response to hip culture, but … Continue reading →

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white outlaw: the ties that bind

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Dave

Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representation was a book written by Bell Hooks in the mid 1990′s. It seems like an appropriate complementary to Rebel Sell by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter.Hooks gained a certain amount of notoriety for her critique of … Continue reading →