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gas leak
The crappy nothingness of it all that skirts the foggy perimeter that defines vulgarity and respectability with a play on the pretensions of class and its relation to income. A sort of laughing gas that comes out of the human … Continue reading
ballot box of brotherhood love: sphynx fetish
Normative democracy based on the rule of property law. Turkey light. That seems to be the template to be adopted. According to the Financial Times, the debt market is stabilizing and the stock market in Cairo is rising slowly. Egypt … Continue reading
the great white hope
The shitty nothingness of it all. Shit as pure nothingness. The essence of the empty and void.Nothingness. A man eager to give society, the political body, a political enema to purge it of all its shit. Politics as substitute shit. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andres Serrano, Andrew Potter, Canada Goose Coats, justin trudeau, Marcel Duchamp, megan leslie NDP, Mel Brooks, PETA, peter kent environment minister, Piero Manzoni, sam rosenfeld, senator brazeau, senator patrick brazeau
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loose lips sink ships: uncertainty principal
As Clausewitz postulated, war is simply a means for a pre-determined purpose. A continuation of policy which implies a rather solid and usually sordid link between politics and war. There have been newer theories, which may actually be clever repackaging … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Alexander Cockburn, Andres Serrano, Andy Warhol, bill lewis art, Carl von Clausewitz, Howard Zinn, Julian Assange, kirsten cale, martin van creveld, Noam Chomsky, Norman Rockwell, pearl harbor, pearl harbor anniversary, pearl harbor attack, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, thomas lacquer
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to tell or not to tell
Its hardly a new problem. Racism seems inextricably bound up with our economic structure, and with ideology, what Veblen termed “invidious comparison” that clarified the complexities between dominated and subjugator such that it is almost inconceivable to think of market … Continue reading
witkin: aesthetic priest last rites
Sprinkle a bit of holy water. throw some ash over he shoulder and maybe keep a little pepper spray in the frock. A tragic morbidity that seems to romanticize violence even as it masquerades ostensibly as a critique, maybe a … Continue reading
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Tagged Andres Serrano, Auguste Rodin, charles mann, Constantin brancusi, Donald Kuspit, hal fischer, irina ionesco, Jed Perl, jeffrey silverthorne, joel-peter witkin, John Haber, Marcel Duchamp, Sigmund Freud, stanley b. burns, wayne owens
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flush hard: we’ve come a long way?
The cliche that newness has become. Its hard to argue with Donald Kuspit’s assertions on modern art, beginning with Marcel Duchamp’s Ready Mades as a confidence game, with the ready made being a surrogate for the female body. His bases … Continue reading
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Tagged Andres Serrano, Anita Sarkeesian, Clement Greenberg, Donald Kuspit, francis m. naumann, Joseph Beuys, joseph heath, Julian Schnabel, Marcel Duchamp, marie-therese walter, Marquis de Sade, marshal berman, marshall berman, Michael Balint, Pablo Picasso, paul mccarthy, sidney janis, Slavoj Zizek, Thorstein Veblen, tim wise, vincent desiderio
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a private necessity: embodied material culture
Its a simple act. But one charged with complex emotional meaning. But then everything connected with the body is complicated and related to such issues as anxiety, fear, money, self-esteem and sexuality; much of this is widely disseminated in modern … Continue reading
brillo pad to kraft dinner to goldfish: integral equations
Maybe it was supposed to be a fake. This whole PR campaign that faked an incident where Banksy transformed the Jesus the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro into Bin Laden was a photo-shop effort. But, though inauthentic and phony, … Continue reading
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Tagged alain sechas, Andres Serrano, Andy Warhol, arthur danto, Banksy, Carter B. Horseley, Clement Greenberg, don dedillo, Donald Kuspit, Ezra Pound, gil vicente, Guy Debord, Hilton Kramer, integral art, keith martin-smith, Marcel Duchamp, marco evaristti, Maurizio Cattelan, piotr uklanski, thomas pynchon, Walter Benjamin
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