Tag Archives: Ken Kesey

breaking the rules: puffs of dissent

Although Edward Bernays ingeniously transformed a part of cigarette advertising into a feminist symbol with his “torches of freedom” campaign, cigarettes have always been a man’s prerogative, an inexpensive privilege to help the male define his identity. Where for women … Continue reading

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The Death and Resurrection Show: the shaman industry?

A guest blog by Tai Carmen at Parallax. Parallax:Exploring the architecture of human perception.The word parallax is a scientific term denoting a shift in perception upon movement of the perceiver rather than the perceived. Bang a gong, get it on…. … Continue reading

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still figgering it out

Getting  beyond psychedelic but hardly nostalgic about Victor Moscoso… Art Chantry (Art@artchantry.com ): When I first discovered psychedelic posters back in the late 60′s, I was introduced to them through the work of Stanley ‘Mouse’ Miller. The first psych poster … Continue reading

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owsley bear :looking for habitats of unreason

A justifiable flight from reason? I human life inevitably alienating? At a very base and primal level does this alienation and its pathological impulse to dominate make an easy excuse to justify exploitation and thus rationalize our present societal structure?Was … Continue reading

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praises of folly: flights of reason

Is a flight from reason to be deplored or hailed? Is the flight from reason a social pathology of apocalyptic proportions….There was an importance in protesting problems such as Vietnam, Racial equality,and income inequality among other ills, but it can … Continue reading

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flight from reason: a merry prank on a dark star?

It was the end of the world as they knew it. It was the Age of Unreason. Works of pop art like the Campbell’s soup can by Andy Warhol, the Impossible Art of Ralph Ortiz killing chickens,and Dennis Oppenheims, “Cyclonic … Continue reading

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unreason: the sound of one hand clapping

The denunciation of reason has always been the reaction of choice since the sunset of the Middle Ages as a general form of criticism; a manner of dealing with its ambiguity, menace and mockery. Unlike madness which could be rationalized … Continue reading

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TURN ON, TUNE IN, AND DROP OUT?

According to the “knowability thesis,” every truth is knowable.Frederic Fitch’s paradox refutes the knowability thesis by showing that if we are not omniscient, then not only are some truths not known, but there are some truths that are not knowable. The … Continue reading

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A COUPLE COUGARS:These Cats Are really Gone

Going Rogue in the wild. A tandem of  dysfuntional cougars, who escaped the idyllic Cougar Town setting of the wildlife preservation. Harkening to the call of the past and a howl to the more enigmatic qualities of human nature. The … Continue reading

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Grateful For An Art Thats Not Dead

Stanley ”Mouse Miller” is one of a select few surviving , legendary graphic artists of the West Coast Hippie era. With the recent death of friend and associate Alton Kelley the genre is fading and Kelley’s passing may define the … Continue reading

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