Tag Archives: Jacques Lacan

animal farm: all animals are equal but some are more equal…

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Dave

Is tyranny the fate of our society in collective? An eternal recurrence of Jasmine springs? Like Sisyphus reaching the summit, the earth with all its Gaddafi’s can never be pitched into the abyss; it rolls down the mountain ensuring the … Continue reading →

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theater of cruelty: take no prisoners

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Art

Dave: Throughout his life he was to plead for special consideration on the grounds that he was suffering and different from other men. He should be allowed to publish and act not due to any particular merit, but because it … Continue reading →

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A NON-NARRATIVE GAZE: The Snuff Between The Action

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Dave

It is a popular video on the web at the moment; yet it is eerie and creepy since there is an actual murder that takes place off camera about two minutes in. In other words a police officer killed John … Continue reading →

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SANTA CLAUS EXCHANGE THEORY: No to Ho! Will The Circle be Unbroken?

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Dave

Sexist Christmas advertising,and other rituals of discontent. why should Christmas be any different than the rest of the year? There is no holiday that seems to invoke the polarity and contradictory impulses that pits theological purity and the reality of … Continue reading →

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LOOS MORALS: Let Her Be On Her Red Plump Bed

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Dave

The sensibilities of painters and sculptors have investigated the Annunciation along with Mary’s psychological response, the alluring constitution of the angel, the will of God, the setting, the symbolic potential and the scene’s effect on other characters. Annunciation scenes, like … Continue reading →

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A WOMAN’S GAZE & THE FEMALE IDEAL:Ordained To Be Seen But Not Heard?

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Dave

“Either it really exists or else I have conjured it up so often that it might as well. The painting belongs to a familiar genre – that of the pensive figure in the garden . . . A woman in … Continue reading →

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DOUBLE EXPOSURE: Visual Fiction of the Personal Gaze

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Dave

Most of Mario Varga Llosa’s novels are set in Peru. From his first works, Vargas Llosa has used a wide variety of avant-garde techniques to create an aesthetic “double of the real world.”; a subtle line between narrative form and … Continue reading →

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LANGUAGE STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Dave

By detaching art from aesthetics,Marcel Duchamp set it spinning on a different course from the one it had followed since the Renaissance. His concept of the ready-made work of art came out of the blue. It could not have been … Continue reading →

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TAKE A WALTZ: A Kampf of Bohemian Rhapsodies

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Dave

Now in Vienna there’s ten pretty women There’s a shoulder where Death comes to cry There’s a lobby with nine hundred windows There’s a tree where the doves go to die There’s a piece that was torn from the morning … Continue reading →

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PORTION GENEROSO: ORAL DESIRE A LA CARTE

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Dave

“Researching one of the seven deadly sins, gluttony, although food implies a consistent research into the bodily (taboos). To Nietzsche, largely responsible for rehabilitating the body in later humanistic thought, sinning is not a basic state of humanity, but merely … Continue reading →