Tag Archives: Marshall McCluhan

the breathless historical present

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Dave

Andre Malraux sought the key to man’s fate by a philosophical study of all the world’s art in his Metamorphosis of the Gods… …Writing almost continuously in the breathless, historical present, Malraux began by reporting a fact: the discovery during … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andre Breton, Andre Malraux, Andre Malraux Metamorphosis of the Gods, Frederic Jameson, Georges Braque, Georges Didi-Huberman, Jean Baudrillard, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marshall McCluhan, Moissac Abbey Church, Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

dial m for money

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Dave

and manipulation. A nice cozy complicity. How to understand Bob Diamond? Maybe he rose to his level of incompetence. Or, perhaps we can compare Diamond to what writer Jean Genet once said said about himself, that the only thing he … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, Bob Diamond Barclays, Ernst Ludwig Kirschner, Jean Genet, LIBOR scandal Barclays Bank, Marshall McCluhan, Patrick Jenkins Financial Times, Paul Tucker Bank of England, Paul Verlaine, Pecora Commission, Peter Lorre, Philip Augar | Leave a comment

launching a thousand covers

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) i think john alcorn is one of those guys who launched a thousand ships and everybody else took credit for what they took from him. from marshall mcluhan to the yippies? i’d say that’s a big … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged art chantry, Eldridge Cleaver, Jerry Rubin, john alcorn, Marshall McCluhan, Milton Glaser, murray mccain, quentin fiore | Leave a comment

distorting mirrors: freaks of mechanical reincarnation

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Dave

Was Otto Dix first and foremost a critic of capitalism? A critic through the bias of the industrial/military/cultural complex that was the beast carrying the burden of material comfort for the lambs. He made sermons without preaching and an artistic … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Billy Bishop, Donald Kuspit, Edward Bernays, German Expressionism, Gilles Deleuze, Guy Debord, hemingway, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Mark Vallen, Marshall McCluhan, Marshall McLuhan, Michael Brenson, Otto Dix, Paul Maizer, Pierre Schaeffer, Roger Scruton, Theodor Adorno, Walt Disney, Walter Benjamin, Walter Lippman | Leave a comment

/b/:LET THEM EAT MARBLE CAKE

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Dave

We have become accustomed to thinking about 4Chan as the breeding ground for memes as well as shaping the associated cultural reactions to such memes. There are other implications to 4Chan beside the obvious pop culture reading…. Alexis de Toqueville’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alex de Toqueville, Alfred Jarry, Amber Case, Ben Huh, Ben Popper, Billboard Liberation Front, Ceci Moss, Claire Bishop, Cole Stryker, Ctle Gage, Dominick Chen, Gabriella Coleman, Glenn Beck, Henry Jenkins, Jon Kelley BBC, Jude Sheerin, Kayne West, Laura Adams Hot Topic, Lev Grossman, Marcel Duchamp, Marcin Ramocki, Marshall McCluhan, Mary Bale, Nicholas Bourriaud, Peter Burger, Ron English, Whitney Phillips | Leave a comment

SHARE THE LOUD HAILER: If It Doesn’t Spread Its Dead.

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Dave

Or, similarly, “It don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got that swing.” Fans reject the idea of a definitive version produced, authorized, and regulated by some media conglomerate. Instead, fans envision a world where all of us can participate … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alex Leavitt, Amber Case, Ann Frank, art chantry, Chris Rojek, Donald Rushkoff, Douglas Rushkoff, Dwight MacDonald, Dwight McDonald, F.R. Leavis, Henry Jenkins, Jaclyn Nardone, Jamie Wilkinson Know Your Meme, Jean Baudrillard, Joshua Green, Julian Assange, Kayne West, Kenya Hara, Kevin Slavin, Know Your meme, Leo Burnett, Marshall McCluhan, Memes, Patrick Mignon, Rhizone, Robert Goldman, Roland Barthes, Russell Smith, Stuart Hall, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, Walter Benjamin, WikiLeaks | Leave a comment

FIXING A HOLE: IN MEMORY OF WALLS AND BRIDGES

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Dave

Are trauma and memory walls and bridges to the truth?… “The premise for this … film comes from an Ono film score, published in 1968: The cameraman will chase a girl on a street with a camera persistently until he … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alain Badiou, Andy Warhol, Charles Baudelaire, Chris Hunt, Eliot Mintz, Gary Tillery, Greg Mansur, Gregory Mansur, Jacques Derrida, James Hoberman, Jean Baudrillard, Jean Paul Sartre, Jenny Holzer, John Lennon, Mark Harrison, Marshall McCluhan, Martin Jay, Michael Epstein, Michael Levine, Nic Knowland, Philip Norman, Roland Barthes, Steven D. Stark, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Y. Levin, Walter Benjamin, Yoko Ono | Leave a comment

Guerilla Raid On The Inarticulate

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Dave

The theories of Theodor Adorno ( 1903-1969) though somewhat left on the political spectrum, are an interesting study and point of departure for any contemporary study of modern or post-modern art.His approach to the truth was considered a ‘‘language rammed … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged Mark Jenkins, Marshall McCluhan, Theodor Adorno | Leave a comment

A Pink Lady and the Mural is the Message

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Dave

Lady Pink is a New York based mural artist who began writing graffiti in 1979 on the edge of hip-hop urban movement. She gained notoriety as the first female to write graffiti within a male milieu of vandals and later … Continue reading →