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Occupy my coolness
The question that could be posited is whether articles like this, writers like Naylor actually reinforce the very behavior they seek to expose; since ostensibly bringing the matter to public attention may increase the value of the one-percenters, the distinction … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrew Potter, Ayn Rand, David Lynch, David Reisman, ginia bellafante, gustavus myers, jerome witkin, joel-peter witkin, John Singer Sargent, John Sloan, Marcel Duchamp, Muckraker, naylor crass struggle, Rick Salutin, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, tom naylor
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on the wings of the mundane
Salvation of the mundane. An ambiguous friendship with the gnostic demons. Is a salvation nebulous in form a salvation anyway. Salvation light. Not too filling. Not too holy with just a thin layer in the abridged form of contemplation of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Albert Camus, austin warren, boredom, Flaubert, Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka Albert Camus, irving babbitt, jerome witkin, joel-peter witkin, Joseph Campbell, M.C. Escher, Martin Buber, Max Horkheimer, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Walter Benjamin, Walter Sickert
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from that time onwards forever
A challenging of culture, a culture which wants to negate, almost perversely, intense human dramas, wants to banalize them into kitsch and either sit-com them on the laugh track or shoot it full of holes like real men. There is … Continue reading
boy meets girl
Body language as alchemy of the visual word. Narratives of ambivalence and anxiety. The spiritual as escapism, a resting place for another departure on the stations of the cross, or a junction, a still faint belief in redemption and salvation, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, jerome witkin, modern american art
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all the butcher’s helpers
In socio critical terms, the emphasis is always to focus on the victims.Perhaps our relation to them. All is enhanced and detracted by the problematics of memory. Very little stares squarely at the locus of the problem which is to … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Bill Plympton, boris lurie, cornel west, Donald Kuspit, dr. jud newborn, gilles paquet-brenner, ingrid pitt, jerome witkin, kevin sean michaels, kristin scott thomas, perry chen, sarah's key, serge joncour, tatiana de rosnay, Walter Benjamin
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