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sinking feeling
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
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Adam Kirsch, Alain Badiou, Andy Warhol, Bell Hooks, Bell Hooks Outlaw Culture, Guy Debord, Jacques Lacan, James Cameron, James Cameron Titanic, Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Slavoj Zizek, Titanic 100th anniversary
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owens: exchanging hand waves
To separate politics from sport is a virtual ideal, not realizable, and similat in context to examining religion without a political context. The Jesse Owens performance in Berlin in 1936 showed how efforts to insulate sport from politics is futile. … Continue reading
just buy the concept: fiction over reality
A Mutual deceit being played out to the hilt? Are they all just business models? The Culture Jamming trademark has clearly been established in the realm of Adbusters. The necessity of a young, white, demographic to be part of a … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Adbusters, Anita Sarkeesian, asher roth, Bell Hooks, cornel west, daniel edwards sculpture, dream hampton, Feminist frequency, Franz Kafka, Henry Fuseli, jay smooth, Jay-Z, kalle lasn, Lisa Wade, Rocawear, ronald b. neal, shawn carter, thomas frank the baffler
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cheer readers : a thief’s playbook
There exist desires which fall and feed beyond the boundaries of normative polite society. Football, in many ways, a dehumanizing livestock show, the skilled commodity is an intersection, as the Penn State scandal shows, where the erotic topic of the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Bell Hooks, Donald Kuspit, gay football players, George Bellows, Jean Genet, joe paterno, mariah burton nelson, Norman Rockwell, penn state sex scandal, rich eisen, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Eakins
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catching a falling knife
Herman Cain. The dandy and the legacy of Amos n’ Andy. The Hermanator experience. The old black minstrel show adjusted for free market ideology. Another figure in a long tradition of American snake oil salesmen rising from the depths of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Al Jolson, Bell Hooks, Bill Maher, boyce watkins, Charles Baudelaire, Constance Rourke, Edgar Allan Poe, herman cain, Herman Melville, Holly Sklar, Jean Genet, jim crow, jon stewart, julius lester, mark harris Z communications, mel watkins, Noam Chomsky, shirley temple, snoop doggy dog, the hermanator experience, thomas rice, Walter Benjamin
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generic pop and the bushmen: blues for allah
If Nelly Furtado, Mariah Carey and Usher can perform for Gaddafi at the late clans family gatherings under the big tent, then what about ambitious kidnappers from the backwoods of Nigeria…. From the Globe and Mail: Canadian diplomat knew his … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged André Bazin, Bell Hooks, celine dion, Ernest Hemingway, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Godard, louis guay, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, robert fowler, sidney poitier, Toni Morrison, Tony Curtis
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songs of love and hate: shoot the boer
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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Bell Hooks, Bell Hooks Outlaw Culture, Carl Jung, dale farm, dale farm travellers, Donald Kuspit, Franz Rosenzweig, julius maleema, Richard Hamilton, richard hamilton pop art, Roger Fry, steve nesius, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin
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