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planet of the apeing
Interesting article on Andrew Potter, who with Joseph Heath wrote Rebel Sell. Potter’s ideas are not unique or original but they are placed within the context of contemporary pop culture in an easy to grasp everyperson’s manner that strip out … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Potter, David Mcraney, Herbert Marcuse, joseph heath, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Mitt Romney 2012, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, Toulouse-Lautrec, Walter Benjamin
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dark nights and black markets
We have had films with decidedly overtones of superficial Marxism typical of the James Cameron Avatar variety; or Titanic, a kind of vampiring of the downtrodden and unwashed in the service of champagne socialism. By the same token, The Dark … Continue reading
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Tagged Avatar James Cameron, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, David Sirota, Frankfurt School, James Cameron, Livre des Echecs Amoureaux, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nolan The Dark Knight Rises, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler
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manhattan campfire tapes
Get that Occupy Wall Street feeling. …Anyone who’s anyone is spending about $1,660( luxury package) to sleep in a sleeping bag in midtown Manhattan. Its a perversion of the word “authenticity” which seems to be a predominant driver of consumerism … Continue reading
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Tagged Deirdre Yack, Fran Cutler, Glamping, Glamping in a yurt, Hyatt 48 Lex, joseph heath, Kate Moss, Kate Moss Glamping, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, monty python and the holy grail, Rudy Giuliani, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen
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dissent building: toy stories
Consumerism is unlikely to be defeated; there will be no white knight, no Saint George to slay the dragon and pitch its corpse into the center of the earth for fifty generations. Consumerism is a product of consumer behavior and … Continue reading
is that your hand on my thigh?
A story of sex, secrets, and Ivy League denial or is it fantasy? Disavowal. Complicity. A career boost. Might as well milk it for what its worth. As if fawning over her is somehow a mark of distinction, A heaven-sent … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew cuomo, arianna huffington, Camille Paglia, charles pagnam, Donald Kuspit, Feminism, Frida Kahlo, Harold Bloom, katie roiphe, Kiki Smith, kim kardashian, Louise Bourgeois, marjorie strider, Nancy Spero, Naomi Wolf, third wave feminism, thomas frank the baffler
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air supply
Culture jamming. Sometimes the artwork and aesthetics of culture jammers is of such ingenious quality that it could appear as if the anti-corporate dissent of the activists is actually produced by the offending companies themselves. That is, ostensible anti-consumerist messages … Continue reading
the fiction of them and us
A very astute look at consumerism and what drives the spending cycle, though not everyone may agree. He debunks some long held and often cherished assumptions that have been mainstays since the Frankfurt school’s Adorno and Marcuse and proposes the … Continue reading
the poet as positional good
The ideology of dissent as dominant motif for post-modernism…An excerpt from a piece by Slavoj Zizek on the John Keane biography of Vaclav Havel. A kind or ironic situation which seems to be of recurring consistency in that the inherent … Continue reading
left-write-left-right….
Take this bohemian artist, an icon of the counter-culture from the top shelf of the Czech Republic’s pre-communist era and you can concoct a recipe for bourgeois decadence and the commodification of dissent. Havel was almost the tailor made candidate … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Potter, frank zappa vaclav havel, joseph heath rebel sell, lou reed vaclav havel, Martin Heidegger, Max Horkheimer, Milos Forman, plastic people of the universe, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor Adorno, theodor pistek, thomas frank the baffler, vaclav havel
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just buy the concept: fiction over reality
A Mutual deceit being played out to the hilt? Are they all just business models? The Culture Jamming trademark has clearly been established in the realm of Adbusters. The necessity of a young, white, demographic to be part of a … Continue reading
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Tagged Adbusters, Anita Sarkeesian, asher roth, Bell Hooks, cornel west, daniel edwards sculpture, dream hampton, Feminist frequency, Franz Kafka, Henry Fuseli, jay smooth, Jay-Z, kalle lasn, Lisa Wade, Rocawear, ronald b. neal, shawn carter, thomas frank the baffler
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