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triple A cowboys under review
…and who say institutional traders, stock traders locked into the world of the desk have no sense of humor. Its an arcane little world that leftist populism wants to take one by one and lynch from the nearest sturdy branch. … Continue reading
junk culture & creative destruction: open or closed playground
Citizenship and delinquency. Is destruction creative? Our capitalist system, the system, or ideology of markets is based on the the idea of creative destruction. The implication is that juvenile delinquents, the innately violent and destructive may have the necessary attributes … Continue reading
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Tagged august aichhorn, Charles Baudelaire, fred herzog photography, Helen Levitt photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson, lady allen of hurtwood, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, margaret bourke-white, marie paneth, Sigmund Freud, Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs closed system, stockhausen 9/11, Walter Benjamin
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fetish for the demons
This familiar sequence of volcanic eruption and cooling off illustrates yet again Max Weber’s notions of bureaucratization and the routinization of charisma. Post-modern financial institutions, a mobile faith like the Pentecosts, correspond to a global financial flow. from Slavoj Zizek:Thus, … Continue reading
voltaire banking on the philosopher kings: wall street shuffle
“He taught us to be free.” Although he was an absolutist, not especially reasonable, and anything but a revolutionary, Voltaire fought absolutism, embodies the Age of Reason, and made the Revolution inevitable. He died at the dawn of the industrial … Continue reading
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Tagged Conrad Black, dale farm essex, dale farm travellers, Denis Diderot, Elizabeth Renzetti, gene sharp, grattan puxon, irish travellers, jean huber, Jean Jacques Rousseau, john b. judis, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, maurice sendak bumble-ardy, Michael Lewis The Big Short, millionaires march, occupy wall street, President Andrew Jackson, Rupert Murdoch, Voltaire
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$$$ 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
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
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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Dix & threepenny opera: an explicit body politic
The classic Bertolt Brecht question was an examination of the inconceivable; two forces in which it was not possible to reconcile: how can people be dignified and ethical under capitalism? The stock market as a Three-Penny Opera. The petty thieving, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, David Hare, Edwin Black, Fassbinder, Francis Galton, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jack Morgan, James Watson, John Carney, Kurt Weill, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Craig Blankfein, Matt Taibbi, Michel Foucault, Otto Dix, Pecora Commission, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Randy Newman, T.S. Eliot, Toulouse-Lautrec
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NO ACCOUNT TO SETTLE IN THE AFTERLIFE: Dionysus Banking System
“In the first place, let me treat of the nature of man and what has happened to it; for the original human nature was not like the present, but different. The sexes were not two as they are now, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander the Great, Aristophanes, Bacchus, Baudelaire, Brian Arkins, Caravaggio, Charles Baudelaire, Cornelius De Vos, Goldman Sachs, Greek debt crisis, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Lord Byron, Michael Lewis, Michael Lewis The Big Short, Oscar Wilde, Peter Paul Rubens, Plato, Seneca, Socrates, Thorsten Hasenkamm
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