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Tag Archives: Henry Miller
fizzy warbles: an arm’s reach of desire
The marketing double-cross.New coke, old tactics. Obesity and the bottom line. The belching monster. The twisted veracity of the plausible. The taste test of corporate integrity. Cuddly polar bears- just by coincidence they are white, predatory and live in the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Andy Warhol, andy warhol coca cola, bill cosby new coke, billy wilder coca cola, coca cola marketing, H.L. Mencken, Henry Miller, Jean-Luc Godard, max headroom, peter jennings, robert woodruff coca cola, sammy Davis Junior, Slavoj Zizek, Thorstein Veblen, ty cobb, zizek coca cola
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genet: risk and the safety of ritual
If we were talking only of the prose such as Our Lady and Journal of the Flowers, it might perhaps be possible to sweep past Genet. These books are books of prismatic brilliance, containing scene after scene of bizarre or … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, bernard henri-levy, Bernard-Henry Levy, Edmund White, genet the balcony, hadrien laroche, hans koechler, Henry Miller, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, stan persky, William Burroughs
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dislocation : journals of the anti-saint
Disturbing. Jean Genet is Downright terrifying. A dark star. A solitude and shimmering of a black star. …Outside select literary circles, Genet is today an almost-forgotten writer, so it’s probably appropriate not only to consider the “last Genet,” but also … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahdaf Soueif, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Rimbaud, August Strindberg, Edmund White, hadrian laroche, Henrik Ibsen, Henry Miller, Herbert Huncke, Jacques Derrida, Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet, Jean-Luc Godard, Michel Foucault, Samuel Beckett, stan persky, Terry Southern, William S. Burroughs
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Miro and the Tears of A clown: Harlequin Carnival
“Painting or poetry is made as we make love,” said Joan Miro. His personages are hot- blooded, but they have a sense of decency: they do not like to be caught in the act. And so, even while we have … Continue reading
mailer: writer with a loud hailer
Norman Mailer’s The White Negro from 1957.The search for rebels of his generation led to the hipster. A prophetic inquiry into violence and rebellion? Or a basic re-packaging of his Harvard education into its logical extension which was a … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Jolson, Allen Ginsberg, Constance Rourke, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Jimmy Breslin, Lou Reed, mezz messrow, Norman Mailer, patti smith, Peter Max, rachael carson, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Vance Packard
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recycle the ideal: chasing the “it”
Certainly Coke would not be the global brand it is without the Americanization of the global psyche.Coke is it. An artificial unfulfilled promise. After all, the product of the Coca Cola company is advertising and its creation of desire. “Coca … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Wilder, carmen garcia, coca cola advertising, dimension 6 advertising, Henry Miller, Jean-Luc Godard, joseph heath, Michel Foucault, muhtar kent, muhtar kent coca cola, Naomi Klein, roberto cavalli coca cola, Roberto Cavalli Design, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek, the coca cola case, thomas frank the baffler
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peeking around the corner: prophet cafe politics
On December 10, 1926, at 9 P.M. at the Prophet cafe, the surrealists met to decide whether to form an alliance with the Communist party. Antonin Artaud, for whom all political parties were equally irrelevant, displayed a noticeable lack of … Continue reading
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Tagged Antonin Artaud, bob rae, Brian Palmer, George Orwell, Henry Miller, jack layton, Kenneth Rexroth, Machiavelli, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Ignatieff, Paul Martin, Rick Salutin, stephane dion, Stephen Harper, Tony Blair
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variations of hell: a ramshackle affair
Whenever Hieronymus Bosch deals with hell and the devils, he repeats this master idea with many variations: the idea that they are illogical, disorderly, incomprehensible, and mad. When we hear that Saint Anthony was tempted in the desert, we expect … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Andre Breton, Dante Alighieri, Dante Inferno, Diego Rivera, Dirk Bax, Henry Miller, Henry Miller Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, Johan Huizinga, Larry Solomom, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud, Stanley Meisler
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A Paradise not what its made out to be
Very few paintings in the history of art have so puzzled viewers as Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. Only now perhaps, in our present new age of folly, can its meaning be made clear. Today we take a … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alain de la Roche, Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, Dante Divine Comedy, Dante Inferno, Dirk Bax, Henry Miller, Henry Miller Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, Hieronymous Bosch, Johan Huizinga, Laurinda Dixon, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Sigmund Freud, Stanley Meisler, Tom Schiller
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