Tag Archives: susan buck-morss

latecomers need not apply

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Dave

Some products are hard to push students onto. They are just not cool and worthy of an opinion leaders interest. Exclusivity and price; once things become too mass market, its time to move on. Like when ten year olds were … Continue reading →

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celebrity contagion :thirty two short momentos by glenn gould

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Dave

The fetish object. The continuous restlessness of meaning. Unresolved tension through which the commodity is continually fetishized, de-fetishized and reproduced to look like the old; warts, scratches, scuffs and all. A reanimation that represents a highlighting of utopian longings dating … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged adam biran, Andy Warhol, arthur rubinstein, bob trenholm, Byron, clara haskill, daniel szmukler, dinu lipatti, Euro Banking Association, george e. newman, glenn gould, harry mannis, igor stravinsky, kate shapiro, kevin bazzana, Leonard Bernstein, paul bloom, paul waldie, serkin, Steven Pinker, susan buck-morss, Theodor Adorno, valerie curtis, Vladimir Horowitz, Walter Benjamin, William Wordsworth | Leave a comment

i-surrealism: mad mac

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Dave

It is a new nature, a new Spinozian episode that re-designates an entire material world of objects, which includes the individual in bone and flesh, both determined and transformed by technology. So, there is no significant or gaping difference between … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged alan randolph, Bill gates, Bruno Schulz, drazen grubisic, james newman, Jonathan McIntosh, joseph heath, Leah McLaren, Max Horkheimer, olinka vistica, ray ceasar, Rosalind Krauss, Steve Jobs, steve jobs death, susan buck-morss, Susan Sontag, the arcades project, Theodor Adorno, Thorstein Veblen, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

theory of the middle class : a few bad apples

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Dave

Jonathan McIntosh:We will miss Steve Jobs. We will not miss his pioneering of closed systems, monopolies, predatory business practices, slave labor, worker suicides and locked devices…. Apple products. iwant, iwant, iwant, idesire, idesire,….the epitomy, the sweet spot of American middle … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged a.j. cronin, alan randolph, apple computer, art chantry, H.G. Wells, james newman, jay yarow, joe priester, John Galsworthy, joseph heath, kathleen e. mclaughlin, koshar, michael tompert, nick hubble, Ray Caesar, ross mckibbon, Steve Jobs, steve jobs death, susan buck-morss, Thorstein Veblen, vinnie chieco, Walter Benjamin, wintek parts factory | Leave a comment

guess who’s coming to dinner

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Dave

The world had changed. To draw similarities with today is hazardous- the situation is more complex today- but some of the contexts bear semblance, the same family genes so to speak. When Chaplin met Einstein in January 1931, the financial … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Albert Einstein, bernard riemann, Charlie Chaplin, charlie chaplin the rink, Hannah Arendt, james j. sylvester, jennifer cooke, John Updike, kracauer, marcel grossman, max born, Max Horkheimer, max jammer, ross benjamin, susan buck-morss, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

variations of destructive mockery

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Dave

Overrated? Is it true that Picasso could pathologically destroy, or sabotage paintings of the old masters by sullying and subverting them? Is it simple playfulness,a prank,a mockery, a tribute, or an attempt to surpass the original? Strip Picasso of his … Continue reading →