Tag Archives: Peter Burger

back to the salon: trititude and tritism

A labored avant-garde, hack mediocrity, tired formula and mixing the sauce on old recipes resulting in a living fabric of life being transposed into a theatrical event? Its possible the avant garde today is decoration catering to mediocre tastes much … Continue reading

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cold off the press: money as a readymade

Its smooth. Its stretchy. Its waterproof. But is it a sex toy? It’s a Canadian thing. The days are short, its cold, but underneath the ice and wind, radical, intense passions refuse to be constrained by nature. We have been … Continue reading

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KNOCKING OFF YOGI BEAR :Take A No.2 In The New Woods?

Any platform that can be used to trade cat pictures can bring down a government – Ethan Zuckerman. The fundamental questions are all about what this new participatory and convergent culture will be like. Is participation the new consumption? It is … Continue reading

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/b/:LET THEM EAT MARBLE CAKE

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

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THE DISPOSABLE NATURE OF ANONYMOUS: Why /b/ So Serious?

The idea of anonymity is a very powerful thing…With complete anonymity, the 4Chan online community boasts 700,000 daily users that work to “create, remix and and popularize” memes and imagery within, maintaining “a language, ethics and set of activities that … Continue reading

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$ AS A READY-MADE : TZANCK You For The CHECKS

Conceptual art will soon be one hundred years old and it is arguably viewed with as much suspicion now as it was in 1917 when Marcel Duchamp first submitted a signed urinal for inclusion in an art show in New … Continue reading

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