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Tag Archives: Leah McLaren
shutting out the dark area
Holding the traumatic moment; gripping it to prevent it from bounding into the realm of the spectacle. The culture of the spectacle, dazzled, doped and duped by its connection to technology where issues are dealt with as another aspect of … Continue reading
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Tagged amy winehouse, Andrew Potter, Bruce Nauman, Claude Monet, eino kyla, F.Scott Fitgerald, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Ellul, Leah McLaren, Lucian Freud, paul mccarthy, Robert Redford, Stephen Marche, the great gatsby
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china: year of the fat cats
The Associated Press recently reported that Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and Katy Perry have all been deemed threats to “cultural national security” in China, and that the government is surveilling, reprimanding and controlling content on music websites in a protracted effort … Continue reading
i-surrealism: mad mac
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
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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
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Fiction of celebrity: somewhere drunk with passion
Dancing with the stars. Celebrity. What price? ……..Celebrity is not the same as being celebrated , but celebrity is often a precondition of being famous.The concept of celebrity as study in itself, as in being a celebrity,is a modern invention, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew McConnell Stott, Cintra Wilson, J.C. Hobhouse, Janet Whitman, Johanna Schneller, John Cam Hobhouse, Joseph-Denis Odevaere, Lawrence Taylor, Leah McLaren, Marilyn Monroe, Michael jackson, Pauline Kael, Sophia Coppola, Tiger Woods
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fear of a children’s planet: the customer is kid
Whats always fascinating, often in equal measure, is disturbing. This is particularly so with the use of children in advertising, in art, and in the broader context. At one end of this seamy world, is the Charlie Sheen archetype, that … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Bogusky, American Apparel advertising, Charlie Sheen, Coca Cola, Dov Charney, Gottfried Helnwein, Herman Hesse, Johannes Nyholm, Jonathan Hobin, Leah McLaren, Nina maria Kleivan, Peter Simpson, Reza Deghati, Simon Houpt
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just lookin’ for a kiss
Is it true that women in the entertainment business are deterred from being funny. From being comic. Is the mixture of being beautiful and funny too combustible a substance to let out of the yard? Or is it because women … Continue reading
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Tagged Adah Isaacs Menken, Audrey Hepburn, Berthe Morisot, Betty Friedan, Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Hitchens, Dorothy Parker, Feminism, Fran Leibowitz, Fritz Lang, Henry Makow, Jean Renoir, Joan Rivers, Laurel Nakadate, Leah McLaren, Natalie Portman, Nora Ephron, Sarah Bernhardt, sylvia plath, Walter Benjamin
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Clouds of celebrity:A fiction somewhere drunk with passion
Dancing with the stars. Celebrity. What price? ……..Celebrity is not the same as being celebrated , but celebrity is often a precondition of being famous.The concept of celebrity as study in itself, as in being a celebrity,is a modern invention, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew McConnell Stott, Bob Dylan, Calvin Klein, Cintra Wilson, J.C. Hobhouse, Janet Whitman, Johanna Schneller, John Cam Hobhouse, John Lennon, Joseph-Denis Odevaere, Lawrence Taylor, Leah McLaren, Lord Byron, Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Michael jackson, Pablo Picasso, Pauline Kael, Ralph Lauren, Sophia Coppola, Tiger Woods
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Celebrity:Somewhere anywhere and points unknown
Somewhere is the new film written and directed by Sophia Coppola. She is considered an artist, though stronger on mood, and atmospherics than story. She has been branded that way, but in fact her story, her narrative is extremely sublime; … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew O'Hehir, Farah Nayeri, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Johanna Schneller, John Milton, Laurence Sterne, Leah McLaren, Lord Byron, Marcelline Block, Miriam Bale, Paul Swendsrud, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Scott Foundas, Sofia Coppola, Stephen Dorff, Stephen Marche, Voltaire
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