Tag Archives: Michael Pollan

occupy the authentic

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Dave

Its a complete distortion and perversion of some very profound thinking by the likes of Viktor Frankl and his will to meaning. The experiences of a holocaust death camp survivor filtered through the maze of pop culture into a reified … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged 10cc, Andrew Potter, Chris Hedges, cornel west, Guy Debord, Henry Adams, John Sloan, laura ingalls wilder, Lionel Trilling, Michael Moore, Michael Pollan, mike moffatt, miles orvell, Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf, stephen crane, susan pinker, Thorstein Veblen, Viktor Frankl, Walt Whitman | Leave a comment

AESTHETICS OF APPETITE:SHE PLUCK'D, SHE EAT

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Dave

IIts the ontology of the appetite. Food as a metaphysical concept. And its consumption to the point of gluttony as an aesthetic. It is an emotionally charged symbol that dates from the Biblical Genesis and humanity’s fall from grace. Heck, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Ben Jonson, Bill Clinton, Dame Dorothy Sayers, Dante Alighieri, Deborah Shuger, Georges Bataille, Gluttony, Hieronymous Bosch, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, Joe O'Connor, John Milton, Marco Ferrera, Mario Romano, Michael Pollan, Milton Paradise Lost, Nathan's Famous, National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, Philip Fernandez-Armesto, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Regina M. Schwartz, Takeru Kobayashi, William Kerrigan | Leave a comment

JOY OF COOKING

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Dave

” give me a thousand acres of tractable land & all the gang members that exist & you’ll see the authentic alternative lifestyle, the agrarian one”. ( Bob Dylan, liner notes, World Gone Wrong ) Food for thought. Second helpings, … Continue reading →