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Tag Archives: Thomas Frank
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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
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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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
politics, cash & art: from sublime to ridiculous
Is it the commodification of everything? Sometimes its hard to tell the difference between the programming and the commercials, with sometimes the latter being more authentic and less predictable since it sometimes captures fragments of the cultural dialogue that the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Adbusters, coldplay back to the start, eminem chrysler, fed ex dominoes, Max Horkheimer, milton friedman, Naomi Klein, nissan leaf gas powered everything, Noam Chomsky, praise tabernacle grosse pointe, Rube Goldberg, Simon Houpt, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, Thorstein Veblen, Vance Packard, willie nelson
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Occupy my coolness
The question that could be posited is whether articles like this, writers like Naylor actually reinforce the very behavior they seek to expose; since ostensibly bringing the matter to public attention may increase the value of the one-percenters, the distinction … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrew Potter, Ayn Rand, David Lynch, David Reisman, ginia bellafante, gustavus myers, jerome witkin, joel-peter witkin, John Singer Sargent, John Sloan, Marcel Duchamp, Muckraker, naylor crass struggle, Rick Salutin, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, tom naylor
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muckrakers and culture stakers
The pop culture world. We just have to accept it until it runs its course. And the cycle could be very long until it unravels, like a balance sheet depression or a life long illness or addiction that may take … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Gerhard Richter, Guy Debord, Jean Genet, john collier, Joseph Beuys, joseph heath, Joseph Schumpeter, lincoln steffens, Max Horkheimer, Michael Moore, Pete Seeger, Peter Max, the muckrakers, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, yvelyne wood
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body and soul sold separately
Does our pop culture reinforce Western materialism by playing on commercial images which represent people as commodities, a sort of person, hyper-unrealistic, objectified, stereotyped into another object of the consumer culture spectacle.An endless process of the hollowing out of appearances, … Continue reading
bringing discontent to market
We are settling into the winter of our discontent. A grey winter.Short days and grey skies. Optimism and hope are overcast. Is this gray a new dawn we are witnessing or a dusk? Is this the gray of a decaying … Continue reading
little criminals: occupy modify commodify
The ingenious part of our system, our “culture” is its ability to absorb and renew the top twenty percent of the population. These newbies, if you could call them, what Pierre Vallieres might term the new “white niggers of America” … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged andrew coyne, Andrew Potter, Chris Hedges, cornel west, David Mamet, Edward S. Herman, Hannah Hoch, jacques duchesneau, jean charest, jean michel basquiat, John Heartfield, joseph heath rebel sell, Marianne Faithful, Marianne Faithfull, Martin Buber, Noam Chomsky, occupy wall street, Pierre Vallieres, Robert ParkeHarrison, the duchesneau report, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen
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old wild men
The terse mottoes, the defiant songs. These were the liturgy and hymnody of the One Big Union’s cause.To the hard-bitten laborers of the I.W.W., the union was a home, a church, and a holy crusade.It lived always in the blast … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alexander Berkman, arturo giovannitti, carlo tresca, elizabeth gurley flynn, Emma Goldman, henry rollins, i.w.w., j. edgar hoover, j. mitchell palmer, Joan Baez, Joe Hill, joseph ettor, old wild men 10cc, palmer raids, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, william d. haywood
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