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artistic terror : conceptual cowardice?

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Dave

Is Marcel Duchamp a terrorist? In a figurative sense, a weapon of mass destruction. The super-bomb/dirty bomb alchemical chain reaction where crap is turned into monetary gold. Clearly, with the ready-made, there was an initial anti-hierarchical space of thought, something … Continue reading →

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light beyond the sinister rhetoric of gender

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Dave

The sinister rhetoric of gender. It seems to rationalize a sublime fear of the dreaded anxiety of disorganized organic being. The absurdity of the masculine warrior figure. But what is the individual if not a mass of disorganized form, a … Continue reading →

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beyond desire : unbound

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Dave

In our society which rewards hard vulgar glamour, pixelized abstractions of the fetish and negates the value of sublime soft beauty, is it possible to escape the cheaply profane? Is modernism’s purpose the destruction of beauty and the pursuit of … Continue reading →

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just the cost of doin’ business?

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Dave

It always seems to arouse the public ire when publicity depicts the sexualization of children, especially in the most flagrant of cases. However, the problem is so deeply rooted, its almost exceptional that the egregious cases are relatively minimalized. Looking … Continue reading →

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