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american revolutionary: kid gloves and “likes”
…Are our rebels and would-be revolutionaries merely play acting as they embrace the consumer cycle, media spotlight and wine, sex and song ethos?… Will an ascetic revolutionary leader, such as a Lenin, Gandhi or Mao, appear on the American scene? … Continue reading
fanon: still finding edge
…Fanon died of double pneumonia on December 6, 1961, six months before the liberation of Algeria. He was thirty-six years old. His body was flown back to Tunis with Ollie Iselin, the CIA operative, who attended his funeral. He was … Continue reading
fanon: love thy neighbor but dispatch him first
Frantz Fanon and his theory of revolution. Fifty years on the Wretched of the Earth may aspire to be a guide to yuppies and hipsters of the perplexed variety… …Frantz Fanon wrote that the urban equivalent of the peasantry was … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, David Macey, Eldridge Cleaver, Fanon Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon, franz fanon, George Jackson Black Panthers, Hannah Arendt, Huey Newton, Jean Paul Sartre, Robert Fulford, The Black Panther Party, The Last Poets, Walter Benjamin
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a tribe called zest
What happens when a cultural expression becomes little else than a product to peddle, one shorn of any radical political agenda. Does hip hop music feed what Bell Hooks has asserted is an ethnic enlivening of experience within mainstream white … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged a tribe called quest, Bell Hooks, buddy esquire, dr. keith clark, harry allen photos, harry benson, hip hop culture, mark seliger, mark wheeler, michael rapaport, Oprah Winfrey, phase 2, Ralph Ellison, The Last Poets, wu-tang
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The N WORD and HUCK fiNN: When the Revolution Comes
Politically correct. Civilized. Lynchings and catfish and the more “dangerous” notions of interracial sex.”How could a black revolutionary ever be sure that white radicals would not return to the fold of white racism.” …IS the road to racism, a separate … Continue reading
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Tagged Agatha Christie, Amin Sharif, Eldridge Cleaver, Ernest Hemingway, Gil Scott-Heron, Huckleberry Finn, James Baldwin, Lionel Trilling, Mark Twain, Norman Mailer, Richard Wright, Roger Ebert, Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, The Last Poets, William Faulkner, William Klein
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PLAN B: Cos Paper Money is Like a Bee Without Honey
“Money is the blood of society, Mr. Gurdjieff told us, and one of life’s driving forces. Neutral in itself, neither good nor evil, the power of money permeates our social and personal relationships, openly and in myriad guises, and this … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Rosenblith, Andreas Hofert, Crystal Arnold, Daniel Carr, Duncan Dowling, G.I. Gurdjieff, John T. O'Neill, Jonathan Blaustein, Karl Marx, Lewis Lapham, Lillian Firestone, Lyn Twist, Markus Koch, Micah Perez, Raffael Hannerman, Richard P. Smith, Richard Smith Dollar ReDe$ign project, Steve Jobs, The Last Poets
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PULLING THE BEARD OF THE KING
“I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance from a doubt as to whether suffering is meaningful. Man is ready and willing to shoulder any suffering … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert S. Gerard, Allen Ginsberg, Anton Boisen, Ben Heppner, Charles Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, Erich Heller, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Maciunas, Goethe, Hegel, Isaac Luria, Jack Kerouac, Jacob Burckhardt, Jacques Lacan, Jake Heggie, James Gillray, James Joyce, John Lennon, Kafka, Karl Marx, Martin Wasserman, Michael Garfield, Michel Foucault, Peter Orlovsky, Renana Elran, Robbe-Grillet, Rudolf Otto, Sanford L. Drob, Shakespeare, Steve Smith, The Grateful Dead, The Last Poets, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Viktor Frankl, Vladimir Nabokov, Yoko Ono
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Beating A White Knight
” I remember some years back kids in the ghetto were supposedly killing one another for their Nike and Adidas shoes. If those kids, many of them just as smart and motivated as I was at their age, really understood … Continue reading
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Tagged Billboard Liberation Front, Last Poets, Mark Jenkins, The Last Poets
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