Tag Archives: Robert ParkeHarrison

little criminals: occupy modify commodify

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Dave

The ingenious part of our system, our “culture” is its ability to absorb and renew the top twenty percent of the population. These newbies, if you could call them, what Pierre Vallieres might term the new “white niggers of America” … Continue reading →

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angels and the catastrophe of history:waiting for his master’s voice

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Dave

Why do angels have wings? What do angels mean today? In early Christian times God’s messengers walked as men. But after the sweeping conversions of the pagan world, Christian artists found inspiration in the flying deities of ancient faiths dressing … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged coventry patmore, douglas bourgeois, Emil Jannings, Gershom Scholem, John Milton, John Ruskin, Marlene Dietrich, Martin Buber, Paul Klee, randy newman harps and angels, Robert ParkeHarrison, steve pinker, Thorstein Veblen, walter benjamin angel of history | Leave a comment

build a better mousetrap to snag em’

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Dave

build it and they will come? Good intro here, but the Father then went on to extoll the stadium. But, some interesting points. You have to wonder if these massive structures are a perversion of some form of twisted ideology. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged b.c. place stadium, christopher caudwell, Donald Kuspit, Father Raymond J. de Souza, fred herzog photography, Guy Debord, Helen Levitt photography, henri Lefebvre, Joseph Beuys, mikel dufrenne, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Raymond De Souza, Robert ParkeHarrison, Viktor Frankl, viktor frankl logotherapy, wilson bryan key | Leave a comment

SHEDDING THOSE “TERRESTRIAL GARMENTS” TO THE BACK OF YOUR MIND

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Dave

“But in the anxiety of the second half of the eighteenth century, the fear of madness grew at the same time as the dread of unreason: and thereby the two forms of obsession, leaning upon each other, continued to reinforce each other. … Continue reading →