Tag Archives: Jonathan McIntosh

notes from the dark streets

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Dave

A new creative commons? …Kicking the bullies in the jewels. polishing the diamonds with a good swift spring of the leg. There are the possibilities of an artistic creed of pessimism, however it appears to negate the undeniably fruitful manner … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Auguste Blanqui, camilla brodersen, Charles Baudelaire, charles bukowski, charles bukowski the laughter, Glenn Beck, Henry Jenkins, Jonathan McIntosh, julianna mauriello, political remix video, Political Remix Videos PRV, Simon Houpt, toyota matrix, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

snap crackle and popping the con game

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Dave

Can we shun a linear narrative, that narcotic like pacifier marked by its insistence, frequency and heavy dosage 7/24 in favor of a collage of episodes and impressions which means, by extension, a personal engagement with subculture. This also implies … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Auguste Blanqui, corey ogilvie, Donald Kuspit, Edmund White, Friedrich Nietzsche, fritz zuber-buhler, gene franks, hadrien laroche, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Jonathan McIntosh, occupy wall street, W.B. Yeats, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

i-surrealism: mad mac

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Dave

It is a new nature, a new Spinozian episode that re-designates an entire material world of objects, which includes the individual in bone and flesh, both determined and transformed by technology. So, there is no significant or gaping difference between … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged alan randolph, Bill gates, Bruno Schulz, drazen grubisic, james newman, Jonathan McIntosh, joseph heath, Leah McLaren, Max Horkheimer, olinka vistica, ray ceasar, Rosalind Krauss, Steve Jobs, steve jobs death, susan buck-morss, Susan Sontag, the arcades project, Theodor Adorno, Thorstein Veblen, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

a herd of mobile muskrats

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Dave

I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he at the end of the street,… ( T.S. Eliot ) As Occupy Wall Street … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged babe ruth, casey stengel, cornel west, eddie stankey, frankie graham, Franz Kafka, Friedrich A. Hayek, George Bellows, Harold Pinter, Jack Levine, Jackie Robinson, Jonathan McIntosh, leo durocher, mel ott, occupy wall street, Paul Tillich, richard fischer Dallas Fed, rouchefoucauld, T.S. Eliot, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin, Z communications Michael Albert | Leave a comment

too many dicks: aye eyck

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Dave

Most academic interpretations build upon an existing structure of debate.It could be called the common-law approach to artistic jurisprudence.It is based on the idea that future interpretations of various phenomena will be like the past, except more so. Once case … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged arnolfini marriage portrait, Clement Greenberg, Edward Hopper, elizabeth abbott, Erwin Panofsky, Franz Kafka, ian verstegen, Jan van Eyck, John Haber Art, Jonathan McIntosh, Linda Nochlin, Linda Seidel, Martin Buber, Meyer Schapiro, susan fromberg schaeffer | Leave a comment

london : read them the riot act?

Posted on August 13, 2011 by Dave

Mobs and riots are not exactly new phenomenon. It’s had some water under the bridge, most of it undrinkable, to draw on. When the capital of the Roman empire moved to the East, the mob, at Byzantium rioted with unparalleled … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend | Tagged Ayn Rand, boris johnson london mayor, Charlie Chaplin, charlie chaplin the kid, chico marx, dacher keltner, Frank Capra, frank capra you can't take it with you, Groucho Marx, harpo marx, Jonathan McIntosh, london riots 2011, mark duggan london riots 2011, Political Remix Videos PRV, Rev. Tim Jones, Reverend Tim Jones, The Gordon Riots 1780, watts riot 1965, Woody Guthrie | Leave a comment

naipaul: at the mercy of the “bow and arrow men”

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Dave

“If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead. …Writers should provoke disagreement.” – V.S. Naipaul. Naipaul is something of a master craftsman in putting down rivals, the art of invidious comparison, and the guile of over-the-top self adulation. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged aminatta forna, dick cavett, Evelyn Waugh, Gore Vidal, Jane Austen, Jonathan McIntosh, Joseph Conrad, joseph heath, margaret gooding, Norman Mailer, patrick french, paul theroux, rob nixon, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, v.s. naipaul, william langley | Leave a comment

an angel screaming its last song is redemptive

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Dave

Are the boundaries between high culture and low culture artificial and easily disolvable?Do such boundaries simply repeat, enhance and reinforce one another in a homogenous system which underpins the essence of consumption and the market economy? In the 1920′s Walter … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Charlie Chaplin, Elisa Kreisinger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Harold Bloom, Henry Jenkins, James Agee, Jonathan McIntosh, Lawrence Lessig, Political Remix Videos PRV, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Tom Gunning, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

we agree: no human authenticity

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Dave

The world advertising industry is so ubiquitous and deeply embedded, almost subliminal in its pervasiveness and presence that its size does not really register. Its global revenue stream is about $500 Billion, give or take; about twenty times the size … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Albrecht Rothacher, Frank Rose, Henry Jenkins, Jaime Pressly, Jonathan McIntosh, Robert W. Gehl, Simon Houpt, Theodor Adorno, Tony Granger, Walter Benjamin, Wang Guangyi | Leave a comment

gender and feminism at a higher frequency

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Dave

The ideologies of our views are often shaped by the portrayal of gender and sexuality we are exposed to. In fact gender appears to be the basic point of departure in any and all efforts to “divide and conquer”. Socialization … Continue reading →