Tag Archives: susan sarandon

joan of arc in rafah: vampire monologues

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Dave

Another resigned white heroine who wants to dance with wolves. Most cynically, Rachel Corrie has been sucked dry, used and abused by the dissent industry who mourns her loss yet harbors the knowledge that her death has been a bonanza … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alan Rickman, attorney Hussein Abu Hussein, Bill Van Esveld, Cindy Corrie, Craig Corrie, Fields of Heaven Project, Harvey Stein, human rights watch, International Solidarity Movement, James Cameron, Judge Oded Gershon, Katharine Viner, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Philip Zimbardo Stanford Experiment, rachel corrie, Sarah Corrie Simpson, susan sarandon | Leave a comment

commodify your dissent

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Dave

The dissent industry.In a virtual and digital age, dissent is a virtual commodity. A world amok with lay pastors of authenticity where atheists and bible thumpers can rotate turns on the soapbox. And there is much to be irritated about. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alexander McQueen, Ami Horowitz, Jesse Jackson, Kurt Cobain, Leo Strauss, Matt Groff, scott walker wisconsin, susan sarandon, Theodore Dreiser, Thorstein Veblen, Upton Sinclair, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

occupy wall street: quantum levitation of the money supply

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Dave

Time to move on? OWS as celebrity sweepstakes?Is dissent politics nothing more than a fashion prototype for the military-entertainment complex? Politics as a series of spectacular satisfactions, like Coca Cola, “within an arm’s reach of desire.” Occupy Wall Street seems … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged adam ende, cornel west, david graeber guardian, Deepak Chopra, Michael Moore, Michael Posner Globe and Mail, Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf, occupy wall street, Roseanne Barr, Slavoj Zizek, susan sarandon, suze orman | Leave a comment

99% percent proof: illusion of the target

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Dave

The underclass is always more vital than the higher strata, unburdend by the baggage of bourgeois liberal morality, preachings of violence which justifies borrowing, exploiting, and finally cannibalizing all transgressive life into commodity kitsch and diluted into pablum. The American … Continue reading →