Tag Archives: Bob Dylan

a meme as astral seeks

Playing with memes and avoiding the minefield of sensationalism, and new variants on the theme of pornography, which seems to be the antithesis of magic and at least something surprising, compelling and not entirely comprehensible. [Kitsch] is perhaps most clearly … Continue reading

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keep calm with bob

French/English language promo on the “keep calm” meme. Mr. Bob was anything but calm with intense poetic vision that straddled the line between chaos and order. Did Mr. D ever read Walter Benjamin and divine violence? or was he secretly … Continue reading

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optimism of destiny

John Winthrop in 1630 on manifest destiny, the expression of an idea about America’s providential uniqueness and divinely ordained mission, in which if they are faithful,“we shall find that the God of Israel is among us, when tens of us … Continue reading

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troubled days

“What this country needs most,” President Herbert Hoover remarked to Christopher Morley early into the Great Depression, “is a great poet.” Inspiration in a time of despair, solace under loss, fortitude under grinding anxiety, are best supplied by such a … Continue reading

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mutilated english: decode it man

If one is searching for springs of language undefiled by pedantry, politics, or motivational vector analysis, what more likely place to look than the domain of belles-lettres? For is it not reasonable to assume that poets and novelists- craftspeople who … Continue reading

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the chosen: wandering decisions

Tyranny of the majority. Its a stock character today, but is the perhaps dominant cultural aesthetic of our time: the endless variations on the neurotic and hyperarticulate, as well as sexually obsessed individual; throw in issues of class and assimilation … Continue reading

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ready for an american lenin?

Are we ready for an American Lenin? Or a Mao? Or even a Gandhi? Will “make love not war” ever give way to “make revolution not love”; until then the odds are doubtful… Many people assert that a revolutionary situation … Continue reading

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billion dollar bash

Living in dangerous times. Currency wars have been on the fringe of public consciousness for some time, mainly as as an echo of anti-China sentiment on their dumping practices into north American markets. However we are on the verge of … Continue reading

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firing on all pistons

So Jethro heard of goings on in the desert and somehow took a cue to follow the cloud that shielded the exiled Hebrews from Egypt. And he didn’t come empty handed, bringing with him Moses’s wife and two sons. Receiving … Continue reading

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cold irons bound: don’t let my people go

The Jonathan Pollard industry. There are plenty of howls and whines to let Jonathan Pollard go, as if he is some victim in Kafka story of deep injustice of the system. Stuck in the in-between space of Kafka’s Before The … Continue reading

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