Tag Archives: Jean Baudrillard

Dog gone it: waiter there’s a cow in my lawn

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Dave

“In order to be reputable it must be wasteful.”- Thorstein Veblen Conspicuous waste. Publicized waste. Extravagance that the wealthy and socially powerful employ to distinguish themselves and mark their status. A point of honor and distinction at the core of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Charles Burton Barber, Guy Debord, Herbert Marcuse, Jean Baudrillard, joseph heath, Max Horkheimer, Max Weber, mertonian, Norman Rockwell, Raoul Vaneigem, Sir Edwin Landseer, steven halpern, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Gainsborough, Thorstein Veblen, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

plastic fantastic: you look fabulous!

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Dave

Carefully structured violence packaged and passed off as spontaneous beauty, reproductions of the divine mean as a reflection of that inner you. Everyone is a Venus. What is the alternative? The aesthetic condemnation of the ugly as a symptomatic expression … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged andi zeisler, Andy Warhol, edward kienholz, elizabeth haiken, Gainsborough, gayle kirschenbaum, Jean Baudrillard, John Singer Sargent, judith leyster, laurie essig, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Sandro Botticelli, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

the age of incompetence

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Dave

Are our government’s in the West incompetent? No doubt the nation state is in crisis and its future of more than passing concern. Whether in terminal collapse as some libertarians seem to be wagering on, or some from of re-tooling … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Ayn Rand, CCP 90th anniversary, chinese communist party, chinese communist party 90th anniversary, city of life and death, city of life and death Lu Chuan, Gilles Deleuze, Guy Debord, Hannah Arendt, Jean Baudrillard, Michael Ferguson Polymathica, Sarah Palin, Winston Churchill | Leave a comment

Paradox: searches for paradise

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Dave

Where would you rather be? On a spacecraft heading towards a lifeless moon or planet or aboard a bouncing raft constructed as in ancient times? An unabashed romantic. But, complete escape is impossible though the very attempt has its infectious … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged arnold jacoby, dr. gordon ekholm, dr. herbert spinden, dr. martin rundkvist, dr. michael d. coe, erik hesselberg, herman watzinger, Jean Baudrillard, joseph heath, Joshua Glenn, kon-tiki expedition, Len Lye, Paul Gauguin, samuel k. lothrop, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler | Leave a comment

televise it: we’re all actors in this

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Dave

The Revolution will continue after this short commercial break from our sponsors… At one time it would have been hard to imagine that “authenticity” could be used to sell almost any product or service. The ingenuity of the American marketing … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged angela davis, Bell Hooks, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gil Scott-Heron, helen jackson lee, imani perry, Jean Baudrillard, joseph heath, Ken Kesey, mark anthony neal, norman kelley, public enemy, Ronald Reagan, sharon patricia holland, Soren Kierkegaard, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler | Leave a comment

king for a day: take a pass on the cake

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Dave

All the king’s men and women. Indeterminancy and inevitability, fortuity and fate.Sacred geometry and secret recipes. The chance of being king. Or is it chance? The chance of being king is charged with multiple and contradictory associations among of which … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alfred Jarry, Aristotle, Christopher Hitchens, cosmati floor, cosmati pavement, Douglas Kellner, Guy Debord, Inigo Jones, james frazer the golden bough, Jean Baudrillard, Kate Middleton, King James I, Mary Queen of Scots, Prince William, XTC Andy Partridge | Leave a comment

failure: discomfort of hazard and chance

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Dave

Are the fragments of our lives ruled by laws of random events and unpredictable chance? A single moment can irrevocably alter the course of a life. We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.Lifelong certainties about the world can … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Francis Ford Coppola, Francisco Goya, Hieronymous Bosch, james d. campbell, Jean Baudrillard, Joseph Beuys, marc seguin | Leave a comment

MEAT PUPPETS: TEENAGE WASTELAND

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Dave

The intersection between anatomy, art and religion continues to be a divisive and sensitive issue since its locus is a conjunction in a grey zone that straddles the difference, and blurs the barriers between life and death, where clear demarcation … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Christophe Maillot, Craig Walker Denver Post, Damien Hirst, Emmanouil Aretoulakis, Farewell Baghdad, Goethe, Gunther von Hagens, Honoré Fragonard, Jean Baudrillard, John Lucaites, Laura Keeble, Mehdi Naderi, Mitra Amiri, Stephen Jay Gould, Stockhausen | Leave a comment

LENNON BEDDING-IN: WHY NOT A SECOND TIME?

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Dave

Looking back into the eyes of hindsight. ……. We can see that John Lennon and his music was able to contradict itself psychologically. The song “Not a Second Time”, recorded by the Beatles in September, 1963, is a good example … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Barbara Kruger, Baudrillard, Evan Eisenberg, George Martin, Greg Mansur, Gregory Mansur, Ivan Boesky, Jean Baudrillard, Jenny Holzer, Max Horkheimer, Philip Norman, Roland Barthes, Sean Cubitt, Sophie Hooker, The Beatles, Theodore Adorno, Tony Barrow, Walter Benjamin, Yoko Ono | Leave a comment

SHARE THE LOUD HAILER: If It Doesn’t Spread Its Dead.

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Dave

Or, similarly, “It don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got that swing.” Fans reject the idea of a definitive version produced, authorized, and regulated by some media conglomerate. Instead, fans envision a world where all of us can participate … Continue reading →