Tag Archives: Horace Vermet

the baron and the bedouin

The power of hype. The power of the entertainment complex as part of a larger military industrial complex is well known. As a marketing concept, a conceptual form of engaging with the public, The Dictator is proving interesting. Content is … Continue reading

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heine sight is everything

The personification of a straight line. Those who philosophize everything delicious out of life. Does the ancient land of dreams still exist? Heine did not believe that it would so soon come to pass; there were too many black ravens … Continue reading

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CELEBRITY AS REBELLION TO REASON: An Age of the Enlightened Groupie

The popular culture’s notion that geniuses were crazy certainly received support from the excesses of many of the Romantic artists of the nineteenth century, who had their share of obsessive, manic, and ecstatic behaviors. Further, the “mad scientist” in literature … Continue reading

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