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Tag Archives: Thomas Frank
writing for love or money? or rank?
Writing for love or money. Obviously, not everyone is Franz Kafka who leaves instructions to have their manuscripts torched after their demise. Given the current legal wrangling over the cache of Kafka papers, maybe Max Brod should have been a … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Art Spiegelman, Arthur Miller, carmen calil, cormac McCarthy, danielle steele, Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, Harold Bloom, Harry Potter, j.k. rowling, joseph heath, Max Brod, Philip Roth, stephen king, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, thomas pynchon
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mailer: writer with a loud hailer
Norman Mailer’s The White Negro from 1957.The search for rebels of his generation led to the hipster. A prophetic inquiry into violence and rebellion? Or a basic re-packaging of his Harvard education into its logical extension which was a … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Al Jolson, Allen Ginsberg, Constance Rourke, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Jimmy Breslin, Lou Reed, mezz messrow, Norman Mailer, patti smith, Peter Max, rachael carson, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Vance Packard
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blissful idleness
Perhaps the greatest of all social revolutions, and one of enormous economic consequences not that profoundly explored, began in the eighteenth-century,when Europe grew not only rich enough to support a large class of non-workers, but also began to organize the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anthony Van Dyck, david allan paintings, David Brooks, George Stubbs, james seymour, jane jacobs, Johann Zoffany, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, Thorstein Veblen, William Hogarth, william inglis
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Paradox: searches for paradise
Where would you rather be? On a spacecraft heading towards a lifeless moon or planet or aboard a bouncing raft constructed as in ancient times? An unabashed romantic. But, complete escape is impossible though the very attempt has its infectious … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged arnold jacoby, dr. gordon ekholm, dr. herbert spinden, dr. martin rundkvist, dr. michael d. coe, erik hesselberg, herman watzinger, Jean Baudrillard, joseph heath, Joshua Glenn, kon-tiki expedition, Len Lye, Paul Gauguin, samuel k. lothrop, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler
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wearing a mask that grins and lies
We often have a sometimes contradictory and ambiguous relationship to popular culture. In one way, its potentially powerful means to share knowledge and criticize consumer society across different boundaries in an oppositional and sometimes subversive manner. However, against this backdrop, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Allan Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Bell Hooks, Frantz Fanon, franz fanon, Grace Lee Boggs, jane campion, jean michel basquiet, jodie foster, joseph heath, Joshua Glenn, Julian Schnabel, norman kelley, Norman Mailer, Robert Hughes, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, zora neale hurston
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hallmark of a fake authenticity
There are just some things more important than money. That may be a heresy in America, but its truth… Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ): A while back I wrote about ‘fake psych’ (or as i like to call it, “hallmark … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Ang Lee, art blog, art chantry, Consumerism, fake authenticity, hallmark psychedelic, joseph heath, Joshua Glenn, mercedes hippie commercial, psychedelic graphic design, saiman chow, samuel z. arkoff, Taking Woodstock, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thomas Gainsborough, volkswagen beetle hippie commercial
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breaking the rules: puffs of dissent
Although Edward Bernays ingeniously transformed a part of cigarette advertising into a feminist symbol with his “torches of freedom” campaign, cigarettes have always been a man’s prerogative, an inexpensive privilege to help the male define his identity. Where for women … Continue reading
when the revolution comes…
Joseph Heath put it very superbly. The modern condition, modern marketing and how criticism of mass society ends up increasing the cycle of consumerism. How books like “No Logo” by Naomi Klein actually make us more brand conscious and how … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Adbusters, angie jackson, arnold mindell, ben courtice, bianca mugyenyi, Emma Goldman, Gloria Steinem, henry rollins, james woolsley, johan norberg, john bellamy foster, Jonathan Chait, Maurice Merleau Ponty, Naomi Klein, seymour martin lipset, Steve Earle, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, Tom Peters, yves engler
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