Tag Archives: Roland Barthes

What is real: where the rubber hits the road

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Dave

It was never meant to simply go from A to B. The automobile is the symbol par-excellence of the consumer society. For most, it is a measure of our standing on the social and economic scale and the strongest indicator … Continue reading →

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banksy pranksy:you can banksy on it

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Dave

Is it an elephant in the gift shop or an exit through the gift shop. Its fitting that Banksy’s movie is about “shop” and the irony is that this much embraced “modernism” is built on buzz and hype and its … Continue reading →

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STORIES OF THE EYE: The “Accursed Share”

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Dave

He was an elusive yet central figure that essentially established what was possible or impossible in the wake of the Marquis de Sade. Nietzsche and Sade in one neat package called the eroticization of the death of god. The profane, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andre Breton, Andrew Repasky McElhinney, Bjork, Dave Kehr, Donald Kuspit, Georges Bataille, Hal Foster, Jacques Derrida, Joan Miro, Jody Enders, Jonathan Jones, Marcel Mauss, Mary Ann Caws, Michel Foucault, Michel Leiris, Nagisa Oshima, Roland Barthes, Rosalind Krauss, Surrealism, Susan Sontag | 1 Comment

FOR A MERRIER CHRISTMAS: This Year And In 1956…And In

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Dave

Psst….Hey Santa..Pass the bottle. Its the pauses that refresh.To some Christmas is a chaotic energy and motivation of fear and intoxication, forces that drive many closer to meltdown. Psychologists call it legitimised deviancy, an unspoken rule that the normal laws … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Albert Dorne, Commander Cody, Deleuze, Emile Durkheim, H.M. Trice, Henry Jenkins, Jacques Derrida, Jay Brooks, Jonathan Goldstein, Kate Mulvey, Martin Bassani, Paul M. Roman, Roland Barthes, Seagram's Crown Royal, Simon Houpt, XTC, XTC Andy Partridge, XTC Colin Moulding | Leave a comment

LENNON BEDDING-IN: WHY NOT A SECOND TIME?

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Dave

Looking back into the eyes of hindsight. ……. We can see that John Lennon and his music was able to contradict itself psychologically. The song “Not a Second Time”, recorded by the Beatles in September, 1963, is a good example … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Barbara Kruger, Baudrillard, Evan Eisenberg, George Martin, Greg Mansur, Gregory Mansur, Ivan Boesky, Jean Baudrillard, Jenny Holzer, Max Horkheimer, Philip Norman, Roland Barthes, Sean Cubitt, Sophie Hooker, The Beatles, Theodore Adorno, Tony Barrow, Walter Benjamin, Yoko Ono | 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

CELEBRITY & THE LOUD HAILERS: The Biggest Roar in the Jungle

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Dave

What have you got in your pocket, or in your purse? It is an apparently trivial, mundane object called cellphone – banal, except a growing body of scholarly literature and market research is interested in it- mobile search; mobile advertising; billions are … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Abbie Hoffman, Albert Einstein, Amy Amber, Andrew Marshall, Claudine Beaumont, Daniel Kreiss, David Ben Gurion, David Gauntlet, David Weinberger, Henry Jenkins, Jean Paul Sartre, Jerry Rubin, Jill Walker Rettberg, Josephine Baker, Nathan Eagle, Put People First, Rennie Davis, Roland Barthes, Stephen Fry, Steve Kuncewitz | Leave a comment

DOUBLE EXPOSURE: Visual Fiction of the Personal Gaze

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Dave

Most of Mario Varga Llosa’s novels are set in Peru. From his first works, Vargas Llosa has used a wide variety of avant-garde techniques to create an aesthetic “double of the real world.”; a subtle line between narrative form and … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alicia Borinsky, Amanda Hopkinson, Arthur Penn, August Sander, Baldomero Alejos, Edward Ranney, Frantz Fanon, Jacques Lacan, Javier Silva-Meinel, Jean Paul Sartre, Marcelo Guimalaes Lima, Mario Vargas Llosa, Mark Power, Martin Chambi, Rene Prieto, Roland Barthes, Sartre Being and Nothingness | 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

MOURNING HAS BROKEN: “Mother” & Wedded to Distortion

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Dave

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live….Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative… ( Oscar Wilde ) The more justification there is for a grievance, the more … Continue reading →