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marat: santa’s advance scout
Charlotte Corday and Marat Sade as Christmas decorations. Peace and Goodwill to All but only after some necessary business is taken care of. Even those crazy Jacobins had gift giving on their mind. A painting as political cinema noir or … Continue reading
land of milk and bunny
The rupture the internet meme was too hot for the “nerfies” in polyester yarn slippers at Madame Pickwick so the erstwhile Kardashian’s butt was still covered but re-branded as a Studio Backstage pub for the Montreal creative bar. “The society … Continue reading
it’s not the meat it’s the notion
“The concept of spectacle unifies and explains a great diversity of apparent phenomena. The diversity and the contrasts are appearances of a socially organized appearance, the general truth of which must itself be recognized. Considered in its own terms, the … Continue reading
seminal warfare: kimo therapy
A plastic Kim just for bobble butt you…That incredible feeling of power of the lie and letting others believe you possess… “The spectacle presents itself as something enormously positive, indisputable and inaccessible. It says nothing more than “that which appears … Continue reading
poetry of the spectacle
Think Pickwick! Taking a tour of the real “occupied territories” with Allen Ginsberg Le spectacle n’est pas un ensemble d’images, mais un rapport social entre des personnes, médiatisé par des images. … …Il n’est pas un supplément au monde réel, … Continue reading
nobility of the common folk
The eighteenth century was reality of a different kind of grand and noble. In fact, the reality was more prosaic, banal and mundane, or at least it appeared so to a casual eye. It was a different perspective on what … Continue reading
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two shovels: digging for lazarus
The society of the spectacle to which we all belong treads a thin line between derealization and the ambiguous nature of our cultural code that straddles reality and kitsch. And if any place on earth becomes part of the spectacle … Continue reading
homegrown or home blown: no name on the bullet
We wish to glorify War — the only health giver of the world — militarism, patriotism, the destructive arm of the Anarchist, the beautiful Ideas that kill, the contempt for woman. We wish to destroy the museums, the libraries, to … Continue reading
signed into law, sealed and delivered…
Appearance at the expense of reality, as a gesture to obscure and deny reality? Rather in the context of post-modernism, the society of the spectacle, where we give up on external as well as internal reality, treating the two of … Continue reading
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