by Pier Marton | Jul 25, 2010 | Human Rights, Ideas, Media, Politics, Spectacle
The important thing is the spectacle that you make out of an event in the media, as opposed to the event itself. Taken from their Wikipedia entry. Everything is media, reality is a concept, a consensus. Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share...
by Pier Marton | Jul 22, 2010 | Books, Future Tech, Media, Spectacle
SCREEN FUTURE The Future of Entertainment, Computing, and the Devices by Brian David Johnson “What do consumers really want?” Are we consumers? Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit...
by Pier Marton | Jul 19, 2010 | Antisemitism, Art, Books, Human Rights, Humor, Jewish, Media, Politics, Racism, Spectacle
SDS, The New Left, Jewish comics, Jews and comics, Harvey Kurtzman, Jewish popular culture, the Hollywood Blacklist, American Culture, 30 volumes published… Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit...
by Pier Marton | Jul 14, 2010 | Art, Highlights, Human Rights, Ideas, Music, Politics, Spectacle
You may already know about Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Walter Benjamin… The reluctance of the musician to think outside of his art is an exact description of the special feature of music. Eisler was against the psychological noise-music – a society which...
by Pier Marton | Jul 12, 2010 | Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Music, Politics, Spectacle
United to Harvey Pekar in death, and in life by Paul Buhle in The Forward. Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Jul 5, 2010 | Books, Shoah, Spectacle, Women
The “original” was already thinned out…”Get it” from pictures, after After 9/11, now Anne Frank? Life in a bubble. Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...