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the intensity valve: occupying hazards

Adbusters: “Cultural revolution is our business” That is exactly the problem. Culture jamming is a business model that fits cleanly into Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle. Buy Nothing Day! but the rest of the years consume “cool” things that … Continue reading

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Dionysian sacrifice

Anthony Weiner as a Dionysian sacrifice. Dragged from the fields of Alba onto a sacrificial pyre.As James Frazer in the Golden Bough remarked, was the later pretence of treating the sacrificial victims as if they were human beings was merely … Continue reading

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