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Tag Archives: Theodor Adorno
foiled hopes
The Enlighenment. The Age of the Enlightenment. The name of an age, the eighteenth century all across Europe and the colonies in the New World and the name of a movement that pervaded and came to dominate that age: a … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged David Hume, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Lacan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Peter Howson, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Slavoj Zizek, Sokari Douglas Camp, The marquis de Sade, Theodor Adorno, Voltaire, Wieland Schonied
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enlightenment by design: build a better world?
The Enlightenment. This is our tradition. Our world view. The liberal, rational, humanitarian way of thought that have persisted since Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, the French Revolution and had earlier seeds in the likes of Spinoza, among others. It … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Adam Smith, Arthur Gobineau, Ben Grasso, Friedrich Nietzsche, giovanni battista vico, Herder linguist, Horace Walpole, John Maynard Keynes, Lyonel Feininger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marquis de Sade, Max Horkheimer, Paul Gauguin, Theodor Adorno, Voltaire
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hanging by a thread
Max Beckmann studied medieval German art, the triptychs, loaded with gory, violent scenes of Christian martyrdom, at its most inglorious and vulgar incarnations of the human grotesque. In his modern condition, the contradictions of Weimar, there is none of the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Erhard Gopel, fabrizio Laurenti, George Grosz, Hannah Arendt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Mussolini hanged, New Objectivity painting, Otto Dix, Piazzale Loreto, sergio luzzatto, Theodor Adorno, Weimar Germany art
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the new seekers
Aldous Huxley is to the negative or anti-utopia what Plato and Sir Thomas More combined are to the positive. We are apt to be less familiar with the Republic’s guardians and Utopia’s jeweled toys than we are with Brave New … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Andrew Potter, c.m. kornbluth, Frederick Pohl, George Orwell, Herbert Marcuse, joseph heath, Karl Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Noam Chomsky, Paul Goodman, Ray Bradbury, Sir Thomas More, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor Adorno, William Tenn
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the edgy veggies: part of one big family
It seems that god’s original idea, if we look at the story of Adam, was that the first man could have the pick of the garden but not to eat meat. Doing the carnivore act was seen to coarsen the … Continue reading
a little truth to power
The pop culture hacker. Really a post-modern artist and a critic of capitalism, the entire apparatus of the Evil Empire in all its ugly glory and self rationalizations and justifications for the dirty deeds and power to make others do … Continue reading
letting a good time roll
Joan Baez was introduced to her first large gathering of afficionados by Chicago’s ebullient troubadour Bob Gibson, at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, and the audience, which had come to see the famous Oscar Brand, Odetta, Earl Scruggs, and Jean … Continue reading
bungalo ferdinand
Hunting is back in the news and the entire issue of conservation tends to devolve into black and white, yet its contentious and complex, its profane and sacred elements well beyond the standard sound bite and immediate flash of rage … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Catch and release fishing, Christopher Columbus, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. hunting, Eric Trump hunting, Hunting Legends website, Jeff Rann, King Ferdinand of Spain, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, PETA animal rights, Rann Safaris, Theodor Adorno, World Wildlife Fund WWF
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taking back the keys to now time
To break the pattern of everything continuing as usual. This kind of eternal catastrophe characterized by a boundless domination of the mythical subsuming and devouring everything in its path. Its the Kafka problematic where the fall, original sin is ingeniously … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aertgen van Leyden, Amona expulsion, Amona violence, Franz Kafka, Gerrit de Wet, Gush Katif museum, Israel Gush Katif, jan steen paintings, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Michelangelo Moses, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Theodore Adorno, Walter Benjamin, yedida freilich
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hidden messages
To forfeit your own reality, to forfeit your own identity and sense of autonomy. To step into the game of the human being as “ready-made” a banal, everyday generic object prissied up with a few optional features as a mark … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Adam Sandler, Adam Sandler product placement, Audrey Hepburn, D.W. Winnicott, FCC, FCC Federal Communications Commission, Guy Debord, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, product placement in movies, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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