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Tag Archives: Bell Hooks
a sagging and bagging story
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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Tagged ACLU, Al Jolson, Bell Hooks, Bell Hooks Outlaw Culture, Charlie Chaplin, charlie chaplin baggy pants, dr. keith clark, gary siplin, Heinrich Hoffmann, jim crow, NAACP, pull up the pants law, pull up your pants law, Ralph Ellison, schave and reilly, Sigmund Freud, The Marx Brothers, vaudeville, vaudeville baggy pants
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a tribe called zest
What happens when a cultural expression becomes little else than a product to peddle, one shorn of any radical political agenda. Does hip hop music feed what Bell Hooks has asserted is an ethnic enlivening of experience within mainstream white … Continue reading
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Tagged a tribe called quest, Bell Hooks, buddy esquire, dr. keith clark, harry allen photos, harry benson, hip hop culture, mark seliger, mark wheeler, michael rapaport, Oprah Winfrey, phase 2, Ralph Ellison, The Last Poets, wu-tang
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white outlaw: the ties that bind
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
shoeless: the almost barefoot bandits
There is something about the genius of American marketing that is worthy of admiration and equally frightful in its shamefaced appropriation of the “other” into a transformed commodity for the mass market.As in all modern marketing the idea is to … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew adam newman, Bell Hooks, Brooks Green Silence, christopher McDougall, Marybeth Crane, mike howard arnold worldwide, New Balance Advertising, New Balance NB Minimus, Nike Free Run, Saucony Kinvara, tarahumara indians mexico, Vibram FiveFingers, vibram shoes, Vibram You Are The Technology campaign
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winkfield: outlaw culture by default
Imagine. The Bolscheviks were burning down the racetracks. Trotsky preaching black revolution and chsing a black jockey over the Urals with his stable in tow… I always found the story of Jimmy Winkfield appealing. It might be the almost unvarnished … Continue reading
where the truth lies: what is “the real thing” ?
We are often convinced we are looking at a seamless and accurate depiction of reality and the shock involved is the realization that it is not quite so obvious as we thought… What are the boundaries of artistic representation and … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged alan schechner, Art Spiegelman, Bell Hooks, Donald Kuspit, Gottfried Helnwein, holocaust art, Jennifer Peto, Jonathan Kay national Post, Marcel Duchamp, margaret bourke-white, matthew frye jacobson, richard kazis, rudolf herz, terry fincher, Tom Sachs, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin
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hustling those creepy patriarchal fantasies
The packaging of male ego and sexual conquest.How its peddled , this male libido as sublimated women hatred is often a matter of status. Whether its through the latest Stieg Larrson, or Hustler magazine, the ingenuity or lack of subtlety … Continue reading
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Tagged Anita Sarkeesian, Bell Hooks, Charles Baudelaire, Christian Schad, dario saftich, david eisenbach, David Fincher, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, Jonathan Kay national Post, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Joshua Glenn, larry flynt, larry flynt one nation under sex, laurie penney, Otto Dix, pierre bourdieu, Sigmund Freud, stieg larsson, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, Tom Peters, Werner Fassbinder, William Burroughs
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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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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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televise it: we’re all actors in this
The Revolution will continue after this short commercial break from our sponsors… At one time it would have been hard to imagine that “authenticity” could be used to sell almost any product or service. The ingenuity of the American marketing … Continue reading
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Tagged angela davis, Bell Hooks, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gil Scott-Heron, helen jackson lee, imani perry, Jean Baudrillard, joseph heath, Ken Kesey, mark anthony neal, norman kelley, public enemy, Ronald Reagan, sharon patricia holland, Soren Kierkegaard, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler
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