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dancing with phantoms
…ghost dance and cargo cult…In times of stress look for the prophets of an earthly paradise: Handsome Lake of Mohammed, Lenin or the Teacher of Righteousness. America is always ready willing and able for any millennial cult that presents itself… … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Cargo Cults, Chris Hedges, cornel west, Father Groppi, John Cage, Kenneth Knowlton, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Malcolm X Black Muslims, Martin Luther, Neil Krug, Noam Chomsky, Peter Zinovieff, Pontiac Indian Chief, Slavoj Zizek, Umberto Eco
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dopey banker
What we have come to see over the past decade, culminating in the financial collapse is a new breed of banker: utterly unprincipled, ruthless and abrasive. You have to wonder if Greg Smith’s life is an episode, a subtle portrayal … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged cornel west, greg smith goldman sachs, greg smith resignation, Hieronymous Bosch, jamie kastner, jean-marc moutout, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Slavoj Zizek, T.S. Eliot, the dopey cowboy
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the blue flame this time
James Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree is a perplexing book.You wonder if its socialism using religion as a pretext to promote ideology or whether the attack against money is part of a larger value system intrinsic to the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, cornel west, Gustav Landauer, Helen Levitt photography, James Baldwin, James Cone, james h. cone, john dewey, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Malcolm X, Martin Buber, Martin Luther King, Ralph Ellison
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this poor man cries out but who is listening
The God game. The politics of God. Santorum hs the potential to be a dangerous demagogue, but the left critique with its mixing of theology, religion and class economics is almost as nausea inducing by positioning the voice of god … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged abel meeropol, Billie Holiday, Billie Holiday Strange Fruit, Chris Hedges, Christopher Hitchens, cornel west, Erich Fromm, James Cone, james h. cone, Larry Rivers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Martin Buber, Paul Tillich, Richard Dawkins, Rick Salutin, rick santorum, robert wyatt, robert wyatt strange fruit, Sam Harris
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rivonia and MLK
Not a utopian, but not a negationist either, neither a nihilist. Rather, an unwillingness to be absorbed into the system neither a desire to be an agent or manger of the system. When Obama rebuked Harry Belafonte by saying, “when … 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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occupy the authentic
Its a complete distortion and perversion of some very profound thinking by the likes of Viktor Frankl and his will to meaning. The experiences of a holocaust death camp survivor filtered through the maze of pop culture into a reified … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged 10cc, Andrew Potter, Chris Hedges, cornel west, Guy Debord, Henry Adams, John Sloan, laura ingalls wilder, Lionel Trilling, Michael Moore, Michael Pollan, mike moffatt, miles orvell, Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf, stephen crane, susan pinker, Thorstein Veblen, Viktor Frankl, Walt Whitman
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