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reaction of the little angry men
This piece is quite good; from Wilhelm Reich, it also seems to capture the contradictions in his own character and the manner in which his own life was a tormented combination of forces he did not necessarily understand. After all, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Bernie Madoff, Cen Wenling, China Cultural Revolution, Chinese artist Chen Wenling, Franz Kafka, General Douglas MacArthur, Hannah Arendt, Korean War, Li Yuan, Mao Zedong, Niall Ferguson, SINO-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue, Slavoj Zizek China, Wilhelm Reich
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zombie banking: deposit at your risk
Early on in the financial crisis, economic opinion from the like of Krugman, Stiglitz et al. warned that the greatest danger of the bailouts was the creation of zombie banks. Essentially cadavers, near cadavers with a faint pulse in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Bernie Madoff, dr. robert hare, Hannibal Lecter, jack Kevorkian, Jim Rickards, john quiggin, marinus van reymerswaele, Meredith Whitney, Paul Krugman, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, psychopathic behavior, Quentin Massys, yalman onaran
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coney island guys and dolls
Lost innocence. A necessary illusion that marks the end of one episode and the beginning in a new journey known as American exceptionalism …once described as “Sodom by the sea.” Coney Island was a sanctioned escape from—and alternative to—everyday reality. … Continue reading
alienating and liberating
The art of Hollywood, or really the business of Hollywood is to dumb and trivialize any critical currents into marketable product. Absorption and coop-tion skills that dumb everything down into cheap neutral entertainment where meaningful content is parceled into bite-sized … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Bernays, Bernie Madoff, Charles Baudelaire, Charlie Chaplin, Christopher Rollason, Donald Kuspit, Edward Bernays, Eisenstein, Esther Leslie, John Heartfield, Marcel Duchamp, Mark Vallen, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Sergei Eisenstein, Theodor Adorno, Voltaire, Walt Disney, Walter Benjamin
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DANCE NOW PAY LATER: LIQUIDITY TRAP BALLET
The consequences of John Maynard Keynes.He conceived the economic machinery that runs our lives. His brilliant engine, despite overhauls and tune-ups continues to run erratically. Is it the driver or the roads?… Keynes identified the economic importance of animal spirits. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Adam Smith, Adam Smith Wealth of Nations, Bernie Madoff, Bertrand Russell, Bloomsbury Group, David Ricardo, David Sarna, Duncan Grant, Friedrich A. Hayek, George Melloan, Ike Brannon, Jean Cocteau, Joan Bakewell, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Muth, Leonard Woolf, Lydia Lopokova, Lytton Strachey, Madoff, Michael Arditti, Mozart, Picasso, Robert B. Reich, Robert J. Samuelson, Roger Fry, Satie, Sir Roy Harrod, Virginia Woolf, William Roberts
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Sculpturing a Running of the Bulls
His previous work has explored a narrative based on the phenomenon of an individual’s loss and anger in modern society. A ruminating melancholy centered around the absurdities of self-existence such as his solo exhibition in 2006 featuring the series ”Blissful … Continue reading