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nihilism : brave new world
Seduced. The abolition of logic and its replacement by spontaneity. The will to nothing. No permit requited. The strange guest, nihilism, at the door. Somehow the grain of the new, a weird perversion of creationism which combines the anxiety of … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Atheism, David Brooks, David Hume, Donald Kuspit, h.p. lovecraft, Hannah Arendt, Heath Ledger, Jeremy Bentham, Michel Houellebecq, Nietzsche, nihilism, Pablo Picasso, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, willem de Kooning, william lane craig
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new forms for old feeling
Profit as evidence of god’s approval for the sacred project of America buffeting the shock between business and piety, lucre and morality. The Emersonian chosen people, selected, picked for a special destiny. Many are called, few are frozen; a form … Continue reading
built in obsolescence: vintage violence
In a first statement,somewhat off-guard, Gilad Shalit expressed support for the freeing of all Palestinian prisoners, if they do not turn around and engage against terror attacks against Israel, according to Al-Jazeera. While Palestinians are holding extensive celebration in Gaza, … Continue reading
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Tagged abu mazen, Chris Hedges, David Brooks, Edmund White, Frantz Fanon, gadaffi death, Georges Sorel, Gideon Levy Haaretz, gilad shalit, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Lawrence of Arabia, martin kramer, michelle goldberg, Norman Finkelstein, omar khadr, Paul Newman, peter o'toole, Steven Plaut, thomas friedman, william haver
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merry pranksters: Joke on who?
The hippie culture will never die. It seems like we have to keep immortalizing it, reinventing it in some way in order to make a buck off it. Whatever its almost Durkheim inspired alturistic origins and optimism for a kinder, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alex Gibney, David Brooks, Dennis Hopper, gregory bateson, Irving Penn, Ken Kesey, Max Horkheimer, Neal Cassady, Noam Chomsky, pierre bourdieu, Richard Alpert, Richard Nixon, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler, Timothy Leary, Tom Wolfe, Walter Benjamin
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blissful idleness
Perhaps the greatest of all social revolutions, and one of enormous economic consequences not that profoundly explored, began in the eighteenth-century,when Europe grew not only rich enough to support a large class of non-workers, but also began to organize the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anthony Van Dyck, david allan paintings, David Brooks, George Stubbs, james seymour, jane jacobs, Johann Zoffany, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, Thorstein Veblen, William Hogarth, william inglis
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in the crease of ideology
Its a convenient truth to blame last week’s Stanley Cup violence in Vancouver of professional anarchists, Black Bloc, little criminals and so on; like Bashar al-Assad blaming outside forces for ruining a pristine and utopic Syrian society. The truth is … Continue reading
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Tagged alan listiak, David Brooks, Dube Brothers, gary mason globe and mail, ken danby, martin bentham, Max Horkheimer, Otto Dix, Raul Hilberg, richard f. hamilton, Roch Carrier, sheldon cohen, Theodor Adorno, vancouver riots, vancouver stanley cup riots
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Power of the narrative: distributing the sensible
Call it the hidden hand.When the narrative breaks down the ability to pull classic trump hands from the pile. This means of depicting the other as something suspicious; like turning over a rock with a stick and seeing what living … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Gore, David Brooks, Dick Cheney, Gabrielle Giffords, Howard Kurtz, Jacques Ranciere, James Fallows, Jared Lee Loughner, John Kerry, Jonathan Chait, Katharine Wolfe, Mark Karlin, Maureen Dowd, Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, Saul Alinsky, Senator Gary Hart, Tyler Bass, Yobie Benjamin
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HORSE OPERA: TIME TO CIRCLE THE WAGONS?
“With the stakes raised so high, the heroes of such dramas are indeed often superheroic, near divinities. One man can outduel five others in a shoot-out (as in the Achilles and Patroclus ending of Unforgiven [dir. Clint Eastwood, 1992] or the final gunfight … Continue reading
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Tagged André Bazin, Andrew Samuels, Carl Jung, Clint Eastwood, Corneille, David Brooks, Freud, Gary Cooper, Howard Hawks, James Madison, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Ford, John Wayne, Ken Salazar, Luiga Zoja, Martha Wolfenstein, Michael Vanoy Adams, Nathan Leites, Paul Krugman, Robert B. Pipppin, Robert Pippin, Robert Warshow, Sam Peckinpah, Samuel L. Kimbles, Sarah Palin, Thomas Singer
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