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joan : weigh the small advance, there is still a chance
The Monarchist movement, the romantic movement, the spiritualist movement, the liberation movement, the communist movement; Joan of Arc has passed through all of them wit the ease and aplomb that one would expect of a light stepping, free-floating saint. From … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alexander McQueen, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Bernard Williams philosopher, Charles de Gaulle, Colette Beaune, David Hume, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, Jean Anouilh The Lark, Jean Le Pen Front National, Joan of Arc, Jordi Savall, Lord Acton, Louis Touchagues, Luc Besson director, Lukas Jevcak, Madame Pickwick, Marie Le Pen Front National, Mila Jovovich, Nadia Margolis, Robert Gildea, Savonarola, Solve Sundsbo, Thomas Carlyle, Vichy France, Voltaire Maid of Orleans
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commodify your dissent
The dissent industry.In a virtual and digital age, dissent is a virtual commodity. A world amok with lay pastors of authenticity where atheists and bible thumpers can rotate turns on the soapbox. And there is much to be irritated about. … Continue reading
stand-off
It can be said that evolutionary theory is the centerpiece of modern Western thought, in fact of Western secular society, from economics, consumerism, the military, agriculture to parenting and politics. The appeal of linear progression, the basis for invidious comparison … Continue reading
dissent building: toy stories
Consumerism is unlikely to be defeated; there will be no white knight, no Saint George to slay the dragon and pitch its corpse into the center of the earth for fifty generations. Consumerism is a product of consumer behavior and … Continue reading
the fiction of them and us
A very astute look at consumerism and what drives the spending cycle, though not everyone may agree. He debunks some long held and often cherished assumptions that have been mainstays since the Frankfurt school’s Adorno and Marcuse and proposes the … Continue reading
trench warfare
The fact that an item is potentially useful has no relation whatsoever that it will actually be put to good use. In fact, poor use, may actually infer a greater value, an honorific value on the owner. Burberry has been … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Uncategorized
Tagged Alexander McQueen, angela ahrendts, burberry bespoke, christopher bailey, consumer behavior, emma watson burberry, forrester research, Humphrey Bogart, Kurt Cobain, Leonard Cohen, marshall cohen NPD Group, paul sonne WSJ, pierre bourdieu, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen
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body and soul sold separately
Does our pop culture reinforce Western materialism by playing on commercial images which represent people as commodities, a sort of person, hyper-unrealistic, objectified, stereotyped into another object of the consumer culture spectacle.An endless process of the hollowing out of appearances, … Continue reading
rummage sale for the unruling class
Its called the Kate effect. It means that anything she is seen wearing is a sure-fire sellout within hours of its public appearance. Those who know her wardrobe in advance can reap millions. Now, they royal couple can be wheeled … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Alexander McQueen, Anne Hathaway, Charles Dickens, Christopher Hitchens, Cindy Sherman, cindy sherman mac cosmetics, Conrad Black, Henry Mayhew, Jay Leno, london riots 2011, london riots birmingham, pauline pearce, sarah burton of alexander mcqueen, schelling incident, Vivienne Westwood, zoe williams guardian
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