Tag Archives: Fritz Lang Metropolis

fiscal cliffs and financial stiffs

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Dave

…The end is near. Doomsday scenario targeting that source of perennial anxiety and trauma: The management of the American economy; now in terms of integrity officially in a recession, a double-dipper with the entire money and banking system, the money … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Allan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Dai Dudu, Fiscal Cliff United States, Fritz Lang Metropolis, Guy Debord, henri Lefebvre, Hieronymous Bosch, James Rickards currency wars, Li Tiezi, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Paul Krugman, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Winslow Homer, Zhang An | Leave a comment

evil genius as madly creative

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Dave

Is creativity always beneficial? Does it always lead to good outcomes? The study was called the dark side of creativity: original thinkers can be more dishonest. No, it was not written by Edgar Allan Poe, but it would make a … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill gates, claude rains, dan ariely, Derrida, emmanuel levinas, francesca gino, Fritz Lang Metropolis, H.G. Wells, Hannah Arendt, jared harris, lorraine gammon, Marquis de Sade, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Simon Houpt, Slavoj Zizek | Leave a comment

feminine principle: horns of a dilemma

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Art

Freud evidently thought the essence of femininity was narcissism and indifference.It was a theory explicitly based on woman’s natural inferiority, that is as ridiculous as it is hypocritical.But, it conformed to the structural,institutional and systematic reasons that still exist today. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Anita Sarkeesian, art blog, Christian Schad, Edward Bernays, Fritz Lang, Fritz Lang Metropolis, Gail Dines, Gloria Steinem, harsha walia, heather jarvis, Howard Jacobson, Jacques Lacan, karl hubbuch, Lady Gaga, Margaret Wente, meghan murphy, Otto Dix, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek | Leave a comment

thrift store arcadia

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Dave

The Arcades Project. It was a preoccupation for what Walter Benjamin perceived as the commodification of things. The individual aura and human experience that encased existence could be fragmented and packaged like security derivatives and tranches of sub-prime mortgages. Benjamin … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Franz Kafka, Fritz Lang Metropolis, g.w. pabst, Hannah Arendt, Honore de Balzac, J.J. Grandville, j.m. coetzee, Louise Brooks, Max Horkheimer, the arcades project, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

sock it to them: laughing last in our discontent

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Art

Laugh-In. canned laughter and forced hip…. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): In the mid to late 1960′s, the psychedelic underground revolution had already started to wane. it was a literal flash-in-the-pan. All of the original pioneers had morphed into varying sorts of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Art Deco design, Art Nouveau, Beardsley, dan rowan, david steinberg, dick martin, digby wolfe, Fritz Lang Metropolis, george schlatter, Hal Erickson, Henry David Thoreau, hippie movement, john alcorn, Laugh In, lena horne, Milton Glaser, paul keyes, Peter Max, Richard Nixon, Rick Griffin, robert massin, seymour chwast, Stanley ''Mouse'' Miller, tom smothers, walden pond, wes wilson | Leave a comment

ROBOT CHRISTMAS: Cyborg Santa

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Dave

Is this the future? H.G. Wells reviewing Metropolis, 1927: “But Rotwang, the inventor, is making a Robot, apparently without any license from Capek, the original patentee. It is to look and work like a human being, but it is to … Continue reading →