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Tag Archives: Jean-Luc Godard
war and conflict: those pauses that refresh
Its the ultimate kitsch product. Coke. All style and form. No substance. Something with multiple layers of meaning exposing a vast fictionality of the object situated in a space between reality and illusion. Kitsch. Both imitative and its negation, kitsch … Continue reading
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Tagged alan schechner, Alexandre Trauner, Andy Warhol, Billy Wilder, Clement Greenberg, Courbet, Henry Miller, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Duchamp, Milan Kundera, Norman Rockwell, robert woodruff coca cola, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin
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jerry as a jerrie: clowning in the shower
…Despite all efforts of the prosecution everybody could see that this man was not a monster, but it was difficult not to suspect that he was not a clown. ( Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem ) Written at the same time … Continue reading
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Tagged Art Spiegelman, bruce handy, drew friedman, eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean-Luc Godard, jean-Pierre Coursodon, Jerry Lewis, Max Horkheimer, Michael Ezra, peter schotten, Roberto Benigni Life is Beautiful, sven lindberg, yvelyne wood
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generic pop and the bushmen: blues for allah
If Nelly Furtado, Mariah Carey and Usher can perform for Gaddafi at the late clans family gatherings under the big tent, then what about ambitious kidnappers from the backwoods of Nigeria…. From the Globe and Mail: Canadian diplomat knew his … Continue reading
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Tagged André Bazin, Bell Hooks, celine dion, Ernest Hemingway, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Godard, louis guay, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, robert fowler, sidney poitier, Toni Morrison, Tony Curtis
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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
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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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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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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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watering the weeds
The Stavisky scandal. One mans contradictory relationship with truth and death. Yes, the big crooks live on; greedy and cold they get to get swindled another day. Stavisky stood off attacks from the press with bribes, which he called “watering … Continue reading
$$$ from pigale to palace: origins of the hustle
There is always a fascination with the role of the past and how quickly it fades into oblivion. The actors and contexts may change, but there is always an unseen hand, proffering the levers that mechanically set in motion the … Continue reading
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Tagged agnes varda, Alain Resnais, anny duperey, Bernard Madoff, clemenceau, Francois Truffaut, jacques demy, Jean Paul Belmondo, Jean-Luc Godard, jorge semprun, Léon Blum, Leon Trotsky, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, serge alexander stavisky
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8 1/2 disruptions of syntax
In Fellini’s 8 1/2 an intellectual laments that the director, Guido, has no central idea, no clear intellectual concept. An English journalist wedges in,”What do you think about the marriage of Marxism and Catholicism?” In 8 1/2 Fellini doesn’t just … Continue reading
VIRIDIANA & NEW WORDLY IMPULSES: Free and Imprisoned Old Sicknesses
Luis Bunuel tells us that the comfortable man ( or woman ) , self-concerned, attempting to embrace more comfort, bores us stiff. And what Bunuel is telling us in cinema is what De Tocqueville forecast in “Democracy in America” . … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Allen Josephs, Andre Breton, Bert Cardullo, Carlos Fuentes, Charlie Chaplin, De Tocqueville, Derek Malcolm, Ezra Pound, Frederico Fellini, Frederico Garcia Lorca, George Orwell, Georges Braque, Gilles Deleuze, Ian Gibson, James Joyce, Jean Paul Sartre, Jean-Luc Godard, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Leah Churner, Luis Bunuel, Marilyn Ferdinand, Michael Douglas, Oliver Stone, Pablo Picasso, Pauline Kael, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Silvia Pinal, Stanley Kauffmann, Stephen Marche, T.S. Eliot, Tarkovsky, Umberto Eco
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