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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

thrift store arcadia

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Dave

The Arcades Project. It was a preoccupation for what Walter Benjamin perceived as the commodification of things. The individual aura and human experience that encased existence could be fragmented and packaged like security derivatives and tranches of sub-prime mortgages. Benjamin … Continue reading →