Tag Archives: Tom Wolfe

the chic-sters

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Dave

Is there an alternative to free market capitalism? The issues that are feeding dissent have not faded. In fact, the global tendency for “austerity” measures will only reinforce them, since austerity as put into practice is a tax on the … Continue reading →

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utopia : bauhaus uber alles?

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Dave

The Bauhaus as the end of art as a humanizing activity. Not even the marker of Benjamin’s messianic nihilism. Just the nihilism of barbarous anonymity. A lifeless black hole. Maybe, ultimately, Bauhaus is so anti-kitsch it is kitsch. Is the … Continue reading →

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rat fink

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) ED ROTH (given the name”big daddy” by one of his model kit clients) is one of those iconic pop culture figures of the last half-century. there is an awful lot of things that we take for … Continue reading →

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merry pranksters: Joke on who?

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Dave

The hippie culture will never die. It seems like we have to keep immortalizing it, reinventing it in some way in order to make a buck off it. Whatever its almost Durkheim inspired alturistic origins and optimism for a kinder, … Continue reading →

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Dionysian sacrifice

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Dave

Anthony Weiner as a Dionysian sacrifice. Dragged from the fields of Alba onto a sacrificial pyre.As James Frazer in the Golden Bough remarked, was the later pretence of treating the sacrificial victims as if they were human beings was merely … Continue reading →

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owsley bear :looking for habitats of unreason

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Dave

A justifiable flight from reason? I human life inevitably alienating? At a very base and primal level does this alienation and its pathological impulse to dominate make an easy excuse to justify exploitation and thus rationalize our present societal structure?Was … Continue reading →

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flight from reason: a merry prank on a dark star?

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Dave

It was the end of the world as they knew it. It was the Age of Unreason. Works of pop art like the Campbell’s soup can by Andy Warhol, the Impossible Art of Ralph Ortiz killing chickens,and Dennis Oppenheims, “Cyclonic … Continue reading →