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call of the wild: frozen delirium
Delirium. Soviet Union. It’s what is not us, not only separate from us but alien,and so different that to confuse with us is to flirt with madness, like a visceral fear of mad love, a temporary insanity that may have … Continue reading
social and cultural stress: cargo cult to the rescue
A sense of deprivation gives birth to the cult. Its driving force is invariably a form of religious fervor or secular religiosity. Its end: the destruction of the cult or the evolution of a new social order, and the cycle … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Cargo Cults, Code of Handsome Lake, F.C. Wallace, F.C. Wallace anthropologist, Gustav Landauer, Hannah Arendt, James Mooney anthropologist, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Seguin artist, Marc Seguin Million Dollar painting, Martin Buber, Millenarian movements, Peyote cults, Philleo Nash anthropologist, viktor deni, Walter Benjamin
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the big lie
The new exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago is a look at Soviet poster art , propaganda posters, from the 1940’s. Its a voyage back to Orwell and 1984. But, a closer examination, of Orwell, would show that 1984 … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged “Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945.”, Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, Art Institute of Chicago, eve m. kahn, George Orwell, Leon Trotsky, Noam Chomsky, soviet propaganda posters, Theodor Adorno, viktor deni, Walter Lippmann
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