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garbage from fizzy to flat
It’s great free publicity, but it is a dangerous game. Like a mouse in a cage with a leopard. In a way, you can call it corporate bullying, but then again, the Coca Cola company is used to stepping on … Continue reading
the wanderer: trouble no more
The wandering jew. The white man’s burden has forced the heavy lifting onto the yid but the pop culture articulation of the concept is actually more profound and complex than its various manifestations would care to admit. Once man and … Continue reading
war and conflict: those pauses that refresh
Its the ultimate kitsch product. Coke. All style and form. No substance. Something with multiple layers of meaning exposing a vast fictionality of the object situated in a space between reality and illusion. Kitsch. Both imitative and its negation, kitsch … Continue reading
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Tagged alan schechner, Alexandre Trauner, Andy Warhol, Billy Wilder, Clement Greenberg, Courbet, Henry Miller, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Duchamp, Milan Kundera, Norman Rockwell, robert woodruff coca cola, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin
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fizzy warbles: an arm’s reach of desire
The marketing double-cross.New coke, old tactics. Obesity and the bottom line. The belching monster. The twisted veracity of the plausible. The taste test of corporate integrity. Cuddly polar bears- just by coincidence they are white, predatory and live in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, andy warhol coca cola, bill cosby new coke, billy wilder coca cola, coca cola marketing, H.L. Mencken, Henry Miller, Jean-Luc Godard, max headroom, peter jennings, robert woodruff coca cola, sammy Davis Junior, Slavoj Zizek, Thorstein Veblen, ty cobb, zizek coca cola
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fear of a black planet… core values
Thats the title of the advertisement. Its part of the journeys campaign by Louis Vuitton, a real marketing powerhouse. The critique is that this is white patriarchy using the abject poverty of Uganda as a pretext to hawk bling luxury … Continue reading
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Tagged ali hewson, Angelina Jolie, annie leibovitz, antoine arnaud, bono U2, Franz Kafka, Freud, Keith Richards, louis vuitton advertising, louis vuitton core values campaign, Louis Vuitton Journeys, robert woodruff coca cola, sean connery, Tony Blair
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happy days: manufacture of innocence
Halfway through the 1950’s , in the summer of 1955, Life ran an article entitled Nobody is Mad With Nobody.” In the text, in which, next to photographs of things like two car suburban garages marked “his” and “hers”, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Caril Fugate, Charlie Starkweather, elmo roper, Fred J. Cook, Friedrich Nietzsche, gil elvgren, Helen Levitt, James Dean, John Updike, jules aarons, kevin phillips, Norman Rockwell, president eisenhower, Richard Halpern, Rick Salutin, robert woodruff coca cola, Slavoj Zizek, the 1950's, Tim Roth, tim roth murder in the heartland
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