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by another name
Attacking the enfranchised “unfit.” Purging society of those who do not measure up to the required standards of national efficiency, ( Henry Kissinger’s “useless eaters” ) or whatever euphemisms we may have to couch the theory of euthanasia, and the … Continue reading
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back to stovall’s plantation
On the one hand, what could one possibly expect from the entertainment industry. Its “product” serving as the servile public relations arm of the financial/industrial complex. And its been that way since the Hays Code of the 1930’s which coincided … Continue reading
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freaks : gabba gabba mantra
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) tod browning’s bizarre masterpiece, “freaks”, also seems to introduce an interesting tweak in movie title typography. i imagine there are earlier examples, but this is the earliest i’ve found of a sort of ‘interactive’ typographic … Continue reading
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spirit of the forbidden
The unvarnished truth. Banal attractiveness sauntering into the realm of tedious familiarity? Bourgeois effrontery through others as a form of marketable cliche? Diane Arbus remains somewhat of a mystery. There is a contrast here, marked, between a Helen Levitt, Cartier-Bresson … Continue reading
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Tagged Diane Arbus, Franz Kafka, Helen Levitt photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Marcel Duchamp, Marvin Israel, Nicole Kidman, patricia bosworth, Susan Sontag, Tod Browning Freaks 1932, william todd schultz
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DESPAIR OF THE SAINTS: POVERTY Of The POSITIVE IDEAL
Life is a bitch and then you play cards; even with a crappy hand. The type of the card game is a variant on Utopianism and the odds of beating the house are slight indeed. Luis Bunuel startled filmgoers … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Bert Cardullo, David Lynch, Derek Malcolm, Fernando Rey, Francisco Rabal, Franz Kafka, Frederico Fellini, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Ingmar Bergman, James Stewart, Karl Marx, Kim Novak, Leah Churner, Luis Bunuel, Marilyn Ferdinand, Martin Buber, Marxism, Roger Ebert, Roman Polanski, Salvador dali, Silvia Pinal, Stanley kauffman, Stanley Kauffmann, Tod Browning Freaks 1932, Walter Benjamin
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MARCUSE : POURING SALT ONTO SACCHARINE NOTIONS
Some people call a lie told for a great and good purpose a “noble lie.” Our government engages in a noble lie, according to these people, when it lies to us for our own good. Let us suppose, for the … Continue reading
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