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A death spiral already? The new car smell has worn off. And Facebook shares are tanking, a kind of lagging indicator for the drop-off in usage. The early adopters are using less, and too busy to get involved in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Schacter, Bill gates, Daniel Ernst, Facebook first earnings report, Facebook IPO, Lauren Rudser, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Matousek, Research in Motion RIM, shimon peres, Tim Keating, Warren Buffett, Zynga
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payback: you ain’t goin’ nowhere
There is such a big divide between the haves and have lesses and have nothing at alls that either this has always existed or that now it is in the realm of active engagement letting all manner of conspiracy theorists, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill gates, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jennifer Baichwal, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Margaret Atwood payback, Michael Ferguson, Shepard Fairey, the great gatsby, Warren Buffett, Warren Buffett Great Givers, Wuthering Heights Bronte
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secretaries of state
The Society of the Spectacle. Pseudo events. The event becomes at best, an entertaining adjunct to the advertising and fundraising. The event is depersonalized and used to move product; stripped of its subjective meaning, the message becomes tailored to stimulate … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Andy Warhol, buffett rule, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Miley Cyrus, Obama 2012, occupy wall street, pierre bourdieu, Sean Lennon, Vanessa Beecroft, Warren Buffett, Yves Klein
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the thrift of paradox
Banality is typically North American. It lends itself to kitsch as kind of a general anaesthetic which tends to numb and mute over our differences, which helps us from cutting each others throats, at least in theory. Banality speaks to … Continue reading
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Tagged ai weiwei, Black Friday, hank paulson, Herbert Marcuse, howard davidowitz, John Maynard Keynes, occupy wall street, Ross Sorkin, The Frankfurt School, Thomas Eakins, Thorstein Veblen, Warren Buffett, Winslow Homer, zhao zhao
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down the amazon: art jungle
Aesthetics is a very complex issue. But is insolubly linked to economics, taste and design. More profoundly, are aesthetic considerations merely another marker, another sign of decadence. Donald Kuspit’s controversial article on the art market several years ago , written … Continue reading
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Tagged alfred lessing, Andy Warhol, anselm kiefer, Arthur Koestler, Caravaggio, David Geffen, Donald Kuspit, Edward Hopper, Eric Fischl, Ernst Ludwig Kirschner, Francis Bacon, Grandma Moses, Gustav Klimt, henri eugene le sidaner, jeffrey deitch, martin gough, Meyer Schapiro, Norman Rockwell, Pablo Picasso, paul raffaele, Thorstein Veblen, timothy binkley, Warren Buffett
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charity is the greatest luxury
The poverty industry. Reinforcing destitution and economic ruin wherever it plants its well heeled foot. The spin is all about helping the poor reach empowerment. Ending the viscous cycle.But really, as Thorstein Veblen observed over a hundred years ago, most … Continue reading
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Tagged arthur c. brooks, bill gates charity, carlos slim charity, charitable giving, David Reisman, gary rivlin, George Cruikshank, James Gillray, Jean Baudrillard, John Lennon, madonna malawi project, Mia Farrow, patrick west, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rick Salutin, Slavoj Zizek, Thomas Rowlandson, Thorstein Veblen, Viktor Frankl, Warren Buffett
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