Tag Archives: Sam Huntington

the baron and the bedouin

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Dave

The power of hype. The power of the entertainment complex as part of a larger military industrial complex is well known. As a marketing concept, a conceptual form of engaging with the public, The Dictator is proving interesting. Content is … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Edward Said, Horace Vermet, john frederick lewis, Ludwig Deutsch, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Sacha Baron Cohen, sacha baron cohen the dictator, Sam Huntington | Leave a comment

dual core

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Dave

The paintings and art of the Orientalists, including photography, fostered tourism and a fascination with the Orient that shaped and reinforced the Western image of the Orient that is subjectively under the sway of still existing colonial motivations, religious intolerance … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Donald Davidson, Eduard Charlemont, Edward Said, francois molins, H.G. Wells, Jacques Lacan, James Tissot, Jean Genet, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean Leon Gerome, John Milton, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mohammed Merah, Rabbi Sandler toulouse, Sam Huntington, Slavoj Zizek, toulouse killings | Leave a comment

pythagoras to byzantium

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Dave

It’s difficult to put the notion of Greece and the traditional assumption we have of it as birthplace of Western civilization, into context, particularly cultural, when confronted with images of mass civil unrest. The images do lend themselves to a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, benoit agnes trioson, Dante, Donald Kuspit, Franz Kafka, Homer The Iliad, J.A.D. Ingres, Jacques-Louis David, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, nicholas poussin, Sam Huntington | Leave a comment

damascus road diversion

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Dave

We know that Bashar Assad has a professorial verbal style, has a tendency to become defensive and stubborn, and is dull, tedious and violent. And we know that regime change is in the air, if not exactly planned, then not … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bashar Al Assad, George Clooney, Hosni Mubarak, Jean Leon Gerome, kais salman, nancy pelosi, Sam Huntington, The Screaming Blue Messiahs, William Beckford Vathek | Leave a comment

omar the tent faker

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Dave

How to escape the classic and enduring, reinforced Orientalist trappings, the colonialist “other” that keeps resurfacing in reinforced, ingenious and more invigorated fashion. Is this part of the running of the gauntlet, the typical immigrant cycle as invoked by Canadian … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged craig thompson habibi, Francis Galton, Harold Bloom, henry goddard psychologist, john frederick lewis, julius grey lawyer, Maxfield Parrish, Rick Salutin, Sam Huntington, stieg larsson, Thomas Rowlandson, Thorstein Veblen, William Beckford, William Beckford Vathek | Leave a comment

eskimo pie in the sky

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Dave

Cheerful and adorable or primitive and lacking hygiene and “morals”. Such is the defined public persona of the Inuit or more derogatively, the Eskimo. Like pets. Cuddly. Except when they pee on the floor. Guilt at the extermination of tribal … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Anthony Quinn, bagel advertising, cantor's bagel advertising, eskimo nell, Inuit Art, Inuit culture, Jared Diamond, max gillies actor, Nicholas Wade, richard franklin director, Robert Flaherty, Sam Huntington, serge lazaroff, the residents eskimo, the true story of eskimo nell | Leave a comment

orientalism: still swingin’ the sword

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Dave

So, when the sword of Constantine began a swingin’, you could say that all the alternative visions, the heretical variations of Christianity, the Gnostics, Desert Hermits etc. all got the boot and we got the Church. At the other end, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged cristina fernandez de Kirchner, Georges Sorel, Jean Genet, Jonathan Kay national Post, martin kramer, meir margalit, Oslo accords, peres peace center, Sam Huntington, shifra hoffman, Simon Sebag Montefiore, victims of arab teror organization, william haver | Leave a comment

too long in exile

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Dave

Does minority status and discrimination affect the musical culture? Or so it seems. Though, within a broader context the semantics of what can be termed “roots” music represents both music of liberation and freedom yet equally draws its tension from … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged amy dockser marcus, bela taraseiskey, bezalel azoni, erik B., Frantz Fanon, idan raichel, Israel yemenite jews, ofra haza, operation magic carpet, Randy Newman Sail Away, Sam Huntington, yemenite jews | Leave a comment

fold up the tent: patriots with bonds in their pockets

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Dave

…As the U.S. miltary officially leaves Iraq, much of us are still puzzled by the phenomenon of this conflict which pits the social, the psychological and the economic in contradictory positions vis. a vis. conventional thinking. Can the conflict be … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alex pareene, Andre Breton, Carl von Clausewitz, Chris Hitchens, christopher caudwell, David Frum, david turnley photography, Erich Maria Rilke, Jean Renoir, La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir, martin van creveld, Reza Deghati, Sam Huntington, Slavoj Zizek, steven metz, Susan Sontag, Thorstein Veblen, XTC Colin Moulding | Leave a comment

writing from the port side

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Dave

These things happen. John Galsworthy became involved with a girl whom his family which to distance their son from at all costs. Since his father, who was to be the senior member of the Forsyte family in Galsworthy’s The Forsyte … Continue reading →