Tag Archives: J.J. Grandville

too many dicks not enough jane

Its the use of Bertolt Brecht technique of montage imposed on the early style flash-mob style editing of Disney found in Oswald the Rabbit. The process of introducing non-natural elements that have no natural relation to what is being played … Continue reading

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thrift store arcadia

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

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basically it was a lie: the weight of conformity

Technology. Television, internet, music. What Theodor Adorno called “the culture industries” . This was seen by Walter Benjamin in the 1920’s as being at the forefront of what was termed “modernity”. Benjamin saw this as “radical immediacy” and it would … Continue reading

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keeping it unreal: the advertainers

Are all aspects of or life affected by immediacy? Its an old idea where products not only lend contextual support to a narrative but contribute and propagate a commodity fetishism resulting from the relationship between technology art and advertising.The result … Continue reading

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