Tag Archives: Guy Debord

hidden messages

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Dave

To forfeit your own reality, to forfeit your own identity and sense of autonomy. To step into the game of the human being as “ready-made” a banal, everyday generic object prissied up with a few optional features as a mark … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Adam Sandler, Adam Sandler product placement, Audrey Hepburn, D.W. Winnicott, FCC, FCC Federal Communications Commission, Guy Debord, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, product placement in movies, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

won’t get fooled again

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Dave

…Pete Townshend says The Who will rock the Super Bowl halftime show with a medley of hits including Pinball Wizard, Baba O’Reilly, Who Are You and Won’t Get Fooled Again…. …The standard stuff. The stuff a band should play in … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Andy Warhol, Bruce Rogers stage Superbowl, david michaels NBC, guns 'n roses slash, Guy Debord, Jeff Koons, Kiss and Cry area figure skating, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pete Townshend, Ricky Kirschner, Roger Daltry, Slash Guns and Roses, The Who, Vanessa Beecroft, will.i.am | Leave a comment

advertising is pop culture

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Dave

Are we all part of the Society of the Spectacle, embedded and enmeshed in a vague relationship with internal and external reality all mediated by images, a series of disruptions with no coherent pattern giving us the impression of being … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Andy Warhol, Guy Debord, James Rosenquist, Jeff Koons, Jonathan McIntosh, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, paul mccarthy art, rebellious pixels, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Yves Klein | Leave a comment

coach there’s a zebra at second base

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Dave

Baseball, like any institution has always needed an inventory of necessary myths that sustain it, somehow invoke deity status, and some form of the exceptional that can be woven into the fabric of empire, and by extension claim a piece … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged bart giamatti, Buster keaton, eddie stankey, George Bellows, Guy Debord, joe queenan, leo durocher, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, roger kahn, Thorstein Veblen, ty cobb, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

the iron shady

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Dave

What to make of the Iron Lady? The entire phenomenon of Margaret Thatcher as societal vehicle. It does recall, somewhat cynically, Guy Debord and The Society of the Spectacle. Here, an ideology is created through publicity. That is, publicity is … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andre Breton, Asprey Bag, Charles Saatchi, Damien Hirst, Guy Debord, henri Lefebvre, john ford director, john walker, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marcel Duchamp, Margaret Thatcher, Meryl Streep, meryl streep the iron lady, rita hatton | 1 Comment

taking stock: dividend under the big tent

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Dave

Art and money. It’s a toxic mix. Money values dominate art values and art has to be submissive to doctrine and ideology. Its called playing the game. Patronage has strings attached so that the art itself is a form of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alfred barr, Andre Breton, Charles Saatchi, Georges Seurat, Guy Debord, Hans Haacke, john a. walker, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marcel Duchamp, pierre bourdieu, rita hatton, Saatchi Collection | Leave a comment

no alternative to the empty

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Dave

The assimilation of art into cold, hard cash, ripping out its character, heart and guts and exploiting the aura of glamour around it. Its high end commercial art. prostitution. Such a gloomy world when the individual is a commodity. People … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, Angelina Jolie, boris lurie, Brad Pitt, Donald Kuspit, Guy Debord, Kasimir Malevich, Marilyn Monroe, Max Horkheimer, Pauline Kael, Wassily Kandinsky, Woody Allen | Leave a comment

kingfish on the hustings

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Dave

You have to wonder if this new phenomenon called Americans.select.org is an effort to establish a technocracy rule in the United States, something that Thorstein Veblen felt would be the inevitable consequences of a capitalism as it became increasingly complex … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged american political satire, americanselect, americanselect.org, Constance Rourke, elliott ackerman, future 101 blogspot, Guy Debord, Herman Melville, jackie and dunlap, jackie broyles, James Gillray, john dewey, jonathan shockley, Michael Ferguson Polymathica, mitt romney bain capital, mitt romney new hampshire, Randy Newman, thomas friedman new york times, Thorstein Veblen, travis harmon | Leave a comment

innocently traipsing across the great divide

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Dave

The creepiest aspects of normalcy are the one’s we don’t think about, that we take for granted, that slip under our radar and end up drawing them into our web complete with their structural cultural pattern, their mechanisms of reinforcement, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged busby berkeley, Clement Greenberg, Guy Debord, Hannah Arendt, Louis Proyect, Michael Moore, Milan Kundera, oliver axer, suzanne benze, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

warhol: another green world

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Dave

Rimbaud:”The poet should make himself a seer by a long, immense, deliberate disorder of all the senses”. The constipated mind of dented cans. An alchemical process of language, which Rimbaud could not have foreseen the ways in which consumer society … Continue reading →