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summer of discontent: is the end near?
” The nature of people is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.” ( Vico) People have no doubt been bemoaning the decadence of the times since the expulsion from the Garden. But what actually constitutes decadence … Continue reading
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Tagged Adorno, American Apparel advertising, American Apparel banned ad, anne brockinton, Arnold Toynbee, Bruce Mazlish, calvin klein advertising, Carolee Schneemann, henri Bergson, Max Horkheimer, Natacha Stolz, Oswald Spengler, robert m. lee, Russell Smith, the NRA, vico
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dix & the creative curse: if hollywood say so its O.K.
The idea was to find an idiom that best suited him to criticize the society he found himself: essentially, a capitalist bourgeois Germany. After returning from the front, he passed through the expressionist, futurist and dada schools before settling on … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Altdorfer, Albrecht Durer, Christian Schad, Christopher Hitchens, David Seidler, Donald Kuspit, Franz Radziwill, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Lucas Cranach, Mark Vallen, Neville Chamberlain, Otto Dix, Rob Candelino, Russell Smith, Seidler king's Speech, Stuart Elliott, Travis English
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shapes of things:sound sculptures & sonorities “insolite”
The idea at the time, according to two Frenchmen named Baschet, was that Western music was mired in an instrumental tradition that was as inappropriate to the age of science as it was superbly sympathetic to the eighteenth-century, in which … Continue reading
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Tagged Baschet, Bernard baschet, Controllerism music, Ean Golden, Francois Baschet, Jacques Lasry, Michel Deneuve, Moldover, Russell Smith, Sculptures Sonores, sound sculptures, Teddy Lasry, Thomas Bloch, Turntablism
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poet leaks : a hacking of verse
Julian Assange’s recently leaked e-mails to a young lover is a collection of some awkward attempts at poetic charming. A romantic poet he is not; yet the love letters probably reveal more about him than the headlines do. Although … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrien Chen, Amanda Marcotte, Amelia Gentleman, Amy Goodman, Anita Sarkeesian, Daniel Ellsberg, Daniel van der Velden, Dwayne Flinchum, Edward Heathcoat, Eric Holder, Farhad Manjoo Slate, Julian Assange, Kate Harding, Lady Gaga, Malcolm Rifkind, Marlon Brando, Michael Moore, Russell Smith, Todd Gitlin, Wiki Leaks
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In control with a knobby hobby: hipsters kind of blue
Controllerism replacing Turntablism. Beware of the ism’s? Are laptop DJ’s the new underground? Is it a new kind of music or a new kind of instrument? Its called “controllerism” but the name may not be totally apt in describing this … Continue reading
SHAPES OF THINGS: Complicit in the Act of the Meme
“Everything is shit. We apply meaning, value, and worth to the shit surrounding us. We live by this meaning and by our words. We live by worth and apply value, but everything is shit.” “She mutters her poem backwards in … Continue reading
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Tagged Amber Case, Carolee Schneemann, Clare Johnson, Forever(21), Henry Jenkins, Hiba Ali, Interior Semiotics, Jeannie Parke Beard, Joel Kuennen, John Fiske, Martha Rosler, Mayhem, Natacha Stolz, Pizza Slut, Russell Smith, Schapylle Scragg, Timothy Vollmer, Tracey Emin
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THE SECOND SKIN PLAYERS
Ziggy and the zentais from Mars. ”And I’m all for it. This is the perfect avenue to make a bold fashion statement but preserve one’s anonymity. One can say the person attracted to zentai exhibits signs of attention whoredom. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Daily beast, Dan Steinberg Washington Post, Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, lycra and spandex, lycra suits, lycraman, maxiamos, Rob McElhenney, roguefetish, Russell Smith, The Green Man, The Zentai Project, will doig, Zentai, Zentai curious Sherbrooke, Zentai fetish clothing, zentai gay, Zentai suits, zentaicd.blogspot
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