Tag Archives: Edward Bernays

alienating and liberating

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Dave

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 | Leave a comment

distorting the tragic flaws

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Dave

Otto Dix has been said to be primarily a critic of capitalism, and secondly an artist who expressed this view through painting. Although its questionable, and even debatable whether the classic capitalism of the industrial era still exists; its underlying … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Barbara Sukowa, Carl Jung, Devin Z. Shaw, Edward Bernays, Edward D. Bernays, Guy Debord, Howard Zinn, Jeff Koons, Josef von Sternberg, Lucy Lippard, Mark Vallen, Martin Knelman, Max Beckmann, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Roger Scruton, Steve Jacobson, Walter Benjamin, Walter Lippmann, Werner Fassbinder | Leave a comment

distorting mirrors: freaks of mechanical reincarnation

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Dave

Was Otto Dix first and foremost a critic of capitalism? A critic through the bias of the industrial/military/cultural complex that was the beast carrying the burden of material comfort for the lambs. He made sermons without preaching and an artistic … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Billy Bishop, Donald Kuspit, Edward Bernays, German Expressionism, Gilles Deleuze, Guy Debord, hemingway, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Mark Vallen, Marshall McCluhan, Marshall McLuhan, Michael Brenson, Otto Dix, Paul Maizer, Pierre Schaeffer, Roger Scruton, Theodor Adorno, Walt Disney, Walter Benjamin, Walter Lippman | Leave a comment

across the great divide

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Dave

Is it operant conditioning when the response is a form of salivating over the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition? Is it operant conditioning to respond to the corporate logos of household names with an awe and desire to down donuts or … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Aaron Shields, B.F. Skinner, Bernays, Carol Menzel, David Caul, Deborah Skinner, Edward Bernays, Foucault, Harry V. Martin, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, James V. McConnell, Lars Perner, Michel Foucault, Pavlovian Conditional Reflex, Professor Pavlov, Theodor Adorno, Walter Lippmann | Leave a comment

what is and what it seems may be: manufacturing contentment?

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Dave

Was he really the connoisseur who by accident sleepwalked into history? William James, the nineteenth-century psychologist wrote that “the greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.” In … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Andrew Roberts, Christopher Hitchens, Colin Firth, David Druck, Dreyfus Affair, Edward Bernays, Fruity Metcalfe, Howard Zinn, John Grigg, Kate Middleton, Nathan Straus, Neville Chamberlain, Noam Chomsky, Philip Ziegler, Prince William, Robert Capa, The King's Speech, Timothy Spall, Wallis Simpson, William James, William Manchester, Winston Churchill | Leave a comment

FAME & Celebrity: Providing a Reliable Supply of Sensations

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Dave

The quest for fame has always been a central motive for poets and artists; from David’s psalms and Aristophanes plays, the need to transcend has been as evident as the human ego. Celebrity, however, has always been the volatile,unpredictable and … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Aristophanes, Chris Rojek, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Bernays, Felix Nadar, Fred Inglis, Graeme Turner, Henry Jenkins, Kristine Harmon, Lady Gaga, Mozart, Neal Gabler, Nicole Polizzi, Oscar Wilde, P. David Marshall, Paul M. Barrett, Richard Schickel, Sarah Siddons, Shakespeare, Thomas Gainsborough | Leave a comment

LOST GENERATION : RECLAIMED FROM THE WASTELAND

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Dave

The Lost Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who were rebelling against what America had become by the 1900’s. At this point in time, America had become a great place to, “go into some … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Anatole france, Archibald MacLeish, Daniel Aaron, David Sanders, E.E. Cummings, Edward Bernays, Ernest Hemingway, F.Scott Fitgerald, George Bernard Shaw, George Grosz, Gertrude Stein, Gold, Gustave Flaubert, H.G. Wells, Jackie Gross, James Joyce, Jean Paul Sartre, Jill Tripodi, John Dos Passos, Joyce Ulysses, Marcel Proust, Max Beckmann, Neil Howe, Romaine Rolland, Stephane Mallarme, T.S. Eliot, Thorstein Veblen, William Faulkner, William Strauss | Leave a comment

MIND READERS & THOUGHT FEEDERS:Pleasures of the “Buy” Button

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Dave

Its a lot of money to spend on delectable gourmet bugs even if well spiced and cooked to your instructions. Insects are not considered a scarce or endangered commodity. But, maybe quenching our pangs of hunger by integrating them in … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged A.K. Pradeep, A.K. Pradeep NeuroFocus, A.K. Pradeep The Buying Brain, Andy Warhol, brainwave measurement, British Journal New Science, Clive Thompson, Danielle Demetriou, David Lynch, Don Siegel, Edward Bernays, Herbert Marcuse, Ilan Brat, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jack Finney, Jeff Gordini, Kevin Randall, Mark Schoifet, Mark Walsh, Martin Lindstrom, Max Horkheimer, Melanie Wells, Neuromarketing, Paul Klee, Ralph Nader, Robert Barocci, Sands Research, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Timothy Leary, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

WILD BILLY'S CIRCUS STORIES

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Dave

Life and Art Not while the fever of the blood is strong, The heart throbs loud, the eyes are veiled, no less With passion than with tears, the Muse shall bless The poet-sould to help and soothe with song. Not … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged American Cinema history, Andrew Sarris, Arthur Koestler, Billy Wilder, Cameron Crowe, Damian Cannon, Dave Thomson, Ed Sikov, Edward Bernays, Emma Lazarus, Ernst Lubitsch, Herman Melville, Holliday T. Day, I.A.L. Diamond, Jack Lemmon, Laurence Maslon, Marilyn Monroe, Paul J. Karlstrom, Paul Karlstrom, Philip Kemp, Richard Armstrong, Robert Johnson, Tim Dirks, Victor Morton, William Holden | Leave a comment

FREEDOM IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Dave

She’s got no braids in the inkwell, no money on the prize. Ain’t got no boyfriend behind her that she can’t hypnotize. And if you wanna see yourself without delusions or delies. All you do is just look into her … Continue reading →