Archive for the 'Apocryphal' Category
The Rise of Street Literature
• June 13, 2008 • Leave a CommentPosted in 'Persepolis', active anarchist, Almah LaVon Rice, America's Pop Culture, American Artists, American Surrealism, Analytical Consciousness, Apocryphal, art, Art&Design, Artisitc Milieu, Asia, Authenticity, bibliophile, Biographia Literaria, Black Friday, Blog, Blogging, Bohemia, Bohemian Ink, Book Seller Moguls, books, censorship, Coffee House Press, collectives, Colorlines, Comic Arts, contemporary art, Contemporary Writers, creative writing, critical media, Culture & Art, culture consumption, Da Ghetto, disparate collection of voices, dissemination of images, Dissemintion of popular culture, ethnic violence, fiction vs reality, Figurative Imagery, free-speech, freedom, Gangsta-Lit, Ghetto-Lit, Gia Bao Tran, Graphic Novels/Art, human rights, humanity, hyperrealistic, hypocrisy, ignored genres, Independent Media/Journalism, Independent press, Independent/Progressive publications, Intellectual Milieu, liberation, lit&bit, Media Moguls, modern urban Life, Novelist, Novella Parody, Oppressive Politics, Poignant Themes, popular culture, Prose Fiction, psychological aspects in Urban Writing/Lit, psychopathology, Race & Representation, Satiric Tales, Shakespeare, Shakespeare and Urban Lit/Writing/Life, Slangy, social criticism, social critique, social philosophy, Street-Lit, Urban Fiction, Urban Literature/Writing, urban living
Tags: Almah LaVon Rice, Colorlines, Comic Arts, Da Ghetto, Gangsta-Lit, Ghetto-Lit, Gia Bao Tran, Graphic Novels/Art, Media Moguls, Novella Parody, Race & Representation, Satiric Tales, Shakespeare and Urban Lit/Writing/Life, Street-Lit, Urban Fiction, Urban Literature, Urban-Lit
Satrapi’s Comic-Strip Memoir comes to Life-
• December 25, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in 'Persepolis', Aeolic Word pais, America & Middle East politics, Amnesty, Amnesty International, Analytical Consciousness, anthropology, anti-Muslim Kristallnacht, Anti-war, Anti-War protests, anxiety of Tehran, Apocryphal, art, art and society, Art Anthologies, Art Threat, Artforum, Artistic Genres, artists, Authenticity, autobiographical comic-strip, avant-garde cinema, Ayatollah & Khomeini, Bande Desinee, Beat Genres, Beat Literature, bibliophile, Bohemia, books, brutality of Taliban era, chadors of females in Iran, children's health, cinema, citizenship, Civil Disobedience, civil unrest, collectives, community, conspiracy against democracy, contemporary art, contemporary printmaking, Contemporary Writers, corruption, counterculture, creative writing, creativity, critical media, Cultural Shifts, culture, Demetrius Phalereus, democracy, Democracy politics, diptych prints, disparate collection of voices, dissemination of images, Docu-drama, Ephemeral Memory, Eros, European alternative culture, Exiled life, fanatical Islamists, feminism, Feminist critique/criticism, fiction vs reality, filmmakers, Foreign Film, free-speech, freedom, Freedom as Birthright, French Bourgeoisie, Fundamentalists, gender equality, global politics, Good vs Evil, government, graphic artist/art, Graphic Novel, Hellenic Knowledge, History, human rights, humanity, Hypatia, idealism, ignored genres, imposition of the veil, Independent press, Intellectual Milieu, international affairs, intolerance & superstition, Iranian Life, Iranian Revolution, Islamphobe, justice, La Societe Feudale, Laissez Faire Elite, Laissez-Faire Capitalism, left-wing intellectuals, liberation, liberty, Life&Death, Light & Darkness, Linguistics, Literary coterie, literature, Lycee Francais, Marjane Satrapi, Marxist, mass protests/demonstrations, Middle East politics, modernist women writers, Muslim extremists, Muslim feminists, nihilism, no-nonsense feminism, Novelist, oppression, Oppressive Politics, Pathos, Peace, Platonic Idealism, Pluralist Democracy, political dimensions, Political History, political themes in art, politics, Politics of Confrontation, popular culture, post-punk cult, Post-War decay, pre-post Revolution/Iran-Tehran, punk rock, pyschology, race, radical feminism, radical Islamists, religion, religious zealots, rhythmical grumbles, rules of the mullah, Shah dictatorship, social critique, symbolism, Symbolist, technology, theatre, Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century, travel, Tyranny, unjust hierarchy, vernacular modernism, Video art, visceral reactions to the veil, Voice of Dissent, war-torture-execution, Wealth vs Poverty, Word & Image, World Cinema
Tags: 'Persepolis', Abstractionism, Academia, adolescence, advocacy for freedom, alternative cinema/film, American & Middle East politics, Analytical Consciousness, Anti-war, anxiety of Tehran, art & film, Art & Society, Art Threat, Artistic Genres, artists, Authenticity, autobiographies, Bande Desinee, bibliophile. blogosphere, black & white comics, Blog, books, chadors of female/veil, children of the revolution/Tehran, civil unrest, comic strip art/novels, comic-strip movie/memoir, comic-strip portraiture, community, contemporary writers/artists, counterculture, critical analysis, critical media/press, Cultural Shifts, culture, discourse & critique, documentaries, education, enlightenment, European alternative culture, exile, family strife, fanatical Islam, feminism, film, foreign film/comic, France, Freedom as Birthright, graphic novel illustrators/writers, graphic novel style/prose, humanity, hypocrisy, imposition of the veil, international affairs, intolerance & superstition, Iranian Life, Iranian life/culture, Iranian Revolution, Islamic revolutions/fanaticism, left-wing intellectuals, life, literature, Lycee Francais, Marjane Satrapi, Marxism, nihilism, no-nonsense feminism, novels, political affiliations, political currents, Political History, political themes in art, politics, poplular culture/film, Post-War decay, pre-post revolutionary Iran, punk rock, Rebel with a Cause, rebellion, religious zealots, ridiculous regimes, rules of the mullah, secular allies, Shah dictatorship, social milieu, society, Sony Pictures, Tehran revolution, theatre, travel, unjust hierarchy, Video art, Vienna, war/tortue/execution, Wealth vs Poverty, Word & Image, World Cinema, writer
Holoplanktonic ‘Depression’-
• December 14, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in Aeolic Word pais, Akademie der Kunste, Ales Mustar, Analytical Consciousness, Anthologies, anthroposophy, anti-capitalist, anti-establishment, anti-globalization, apiarists, Apocryphal, art, art and society, Art&Design, Art&Poetry, artists, Beat Generation, Beat Genres, Beat Literature, Beatitude, bibliophile, Bohemia, books, community, contemporary art, contemporary printmaking, Contemporary Writers, counterculture, creative writing, creativity, Cultural Shifts, culture, culture consumption, deliquescence, Dharma Beat Poet, diptych prints, disembodied poetics, Dissemintion of popular culture, Diyas, emerging arts movement, Ephemeral Memory, Epithalamia, Ethics, European Renaissance, existentialism, experimental writing, Holoplanktonic protozoa, human nature&technology, Iconic Imagery, ignored genres, Independent press, Intellectual Milieu, international literature&poetry, life, Linguistics, Literary coterie, Literary Group, literature, Naturalism & Modernism, Photography, Pleiades, Poetics, poetry, Poets, Poets/Icons, Poignant Themes, post-Beat Poetry Community, psychopathology, publication, pyschology, Slovenian poetry, social critique, social philosophy, Sourdough Mountain, Spontaneous Prose, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Symbolist, technology of photography, travel, urban living, vernacular, vernacular modernism, Winter Poems, Word & Image, writing, Writing & Poetics
Tags: 'Court Translations', Abstract Expressionists, Abstractionism, Ales Mustar, Analytical Consciousness, Apocryphal, art, art and society, cience, counterculture, Cultural Shifts, culture, depression, Dissemination of popular culture, Europe, experimental writing, foreign poetry, Holoplanktonic protozoa, human nature and technology, Independent press, life, Linguistics, Literary coterie, literature, microscopic organisms, microscopic photography, Musings, Photography, Poetics, poetry of Slovenia, psychopathology, publication, radiolaria, social critique, technology and the modern world, travel, Winter Poems, Word & Image, writing, Writing & Poetics
Printmaker Gems at the NY Public Library-
• December 10, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in "war criminal", Aeolian dialect of Greek, Akademie der Kunste, American Surrealism, Analytical Consciousness, anti-establishment, Apocryphal, art, art and society, Art Anthologies, Art History, Art Threat, Art&Design, Art&Poetry, Artforum, Artistic Genres, artists, Authenticity, Banksy, Beat Generation, Beat Genres, Beat Literature, Beat Poets, Beatitude, bibliophile, Bohemia, Branding of Politics, collectives, community, contemporary art, contemporary printmaking, Contemporary Writers, Corporatorcracy, counterculture, creative writing, creativity, critical media, culture, culture consumption, Dharma Beat Poet, diptych prints, disembodied poetics, dissemination of images, Dissemintion of popular culture, drypoint portraits, E.V. Day, emerging arts movement, Eros, existentialism, feminism, Feminist critique/criticism, fine art, Fotografos, galleries, gender&sexuality, government, graphic artist/art, Hellenic Knowledge, Homoerotica, Hypatia, hyperrealistic, Iconic Imagery, Independent press, Independent/Progressive publications, Intellectual Milieu, Linguistics, linocuts, Literary coterie, literature, lithography, Marshall Reese, masculine&feminine energies, Media Frenzy, media squall, Media Wonks, Milwaukee artists, Milwaukee writers, modernist women writers, Multiple Interpretations, Nora Ligorano, opinions, patriarchy, phalli of Priapus, photographic portraiture, Pleiades, political satire, political themes in art, politically inflammatory, politics, popular culture, Printmakers, printmaking history, progressive politics, protraiture, Public Art/Spaces, satirical art, social criticism, social critique, symbolism, technology, technology of photography, Video art
Tags: Abstract Expressionists, abstract imagery, Academia, American consumerism, art, Art History, Artistic Genres, artists, artwork, Authenticity, collections, community, contemporary art/printmaking, creative endeavors, critical analysis, critical discussion, culture, culture consumption, curators, digital printmaking, diptych, dissemination of images, E.V. Day, etchings, exhibitis, gender&sexuality, government figures, homoerotic narrative, Iconic Imagery, life&art, linocuts, Marshall Reese, morphing figures, mug shots-style, Multiple Interpretations, multiplicity, New York Public Library, News, Nora Ligorano, Photography, political communication, political satire, politics, printmaking, printmaking history, public art, public dialogue, public discourse, reviews, serial imagery, soical&political, technology and art, writing
Leftovers-
• November 23, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in 'Ramayana', American Women Poets, Amit Varma, Analytical Consciousness, anti-capitalist, anti-establishment, anti-globalization, Anti-war, Apocryphal, art and society, Avadha, Beat Generation, Beat Genres, Beat Literature, Beat Poets, Black Friday, Bohemia, Bohemian Ink, books, Bush cronies, citizenship, civil unrest, Coffee House Press, collectives, community, conspiracy against democracy, Corporate America, Corporate Moguls, Corporatorcracy, corruption, creative writing, critical media, Cultural Shifts, culture, culture consumption, Demetrius Phalereus, democracy, Democracy politics, Democratic Republic, Dharma Beat Poet, disembodied poetics, disparate collection of voices, Dissemintion of popular culture, Diyas, editiorials, education, Ephemeral Memory, Ethics, Founding Fathers, freedom, Ganges, geopolitical, government, Hellenic Knowledge, Hermetic & Esoteric traditions, Hinduism, human history, human rights, Hypatia, hypocrisy, ignored genres, Independent Media/Journalism, Independent press, Infantilized consumers, l'inexplorable, liberation, liberty, life, Linguistics, Literary coterie, literature, Louvre, Media Wonks, modern urban Life, NEImpeach.org, new activism, Novelist, Op-Ed, opinions, oppression, patriarchy, phalli of Priapus, Poetics, Politics of Confrontation, Post-Beat Era, post-Beat Poetry Community, Preamble, Predatory Corporate Capitalism, Pro-Freedom, progressive politics, pyschology, social criticism, Sourdough Mountain, Thom Hartmann, unjust hierarchy, vernacular modernism, We The People...
Tags: 'Cracking the Code', activism, advocacy, American consumerism, American Democracy, Analytical Consciouness, Black Friday, Blogging, blogs, books, Bush cronies, business, citizenship, civil unrest, conspiracy against democracy, Corporate America, Corporate Moguls, Corporatocracy, corruption, creative writing, critical media, critical thinking, Cultural Shifts, culutre, current issues, Democratic Republic, Dissemination of popular culture, economics, education, engaged activism, Founding Fathers, freedom, government, History, human rights, ignored genres, Impeachment, Infantilized consumers, liberty, life, literature, NEImpeach.org, new activism, patriarchy, politics, Preamble, Predatory Corporate Capitalism, progressive politics, psychology, social cange for democracy, society, Thom Hartmann, thoughts, unjust hierarchy, We The People..., writing
Bhutto under House Arrest-
• November 9, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in 'Nie Wieder Krieg', Aeolian dialect of Greek, America & Middle East politics, Amit Varma, Amnesty International, Analytical Consciousness, anti-establishment, Anti-war, Anti-War protests, Apocryphal, aristocracy, Asia, Aung San Suu Kyi, Authenticity, Beat Generation, Beat Literature, Beat Poets, Benazir Bhutto, bibliophile, Blogging, Bloody Hands, Bohemia, Branding of Politics, Burma, censorship, Civil Disobedience, civil unrest, Coffee House Press, community, conspiracy against democracy, Contemporary Writers, Corporate lackeys, Corporate Moguls, corruption, creative writing, critical media, cultural icons, cultural legacy, culture, democracy, Democracy politics, Democratic Voice of Burma, Dharma Beat Poet, economics, editiorials, Ethics, extremists, feminism, Feminist critique/criticism, free-speech, freedom, global politics, government, human history, human rights, Iconic Imagery, Independent Media/Journalism, Independent press, Independent/Progressive publications, India, India and Pakistan, India-Pakistan relations, intelligentsia, international affairs, Journalism, justice, Khaled Hasseini, liberation, life, Life&Death, Linguistics, Literary coterie, mass protests/demonstrations, Media, media blackouts, Media Wonks, Milwaukee writers, Musharraf, new activism, News, opinions, oppression, pacifist consciousness, pacifist politics, Pakistan military, Pakistan People's Party-PPP, Pakistan Peoples Party, Pakistan politics, patriarchy, Peace Action, Philosophy, photojournalism, Police Brutality, Policy Wonk, politics, Politics of Confrontation, Post-Beat Era, post-Beat Poetry Community, PPP activists, Preetha Kannan, Pro-Democracy Movement, Pro-Freedom, progressive politics, protests, pseudo-anonymous, publication, pyschology, Rawalpindi, social criticism, social critique, Solidarity, Sourdough Mountain, South Asia, South Asian Media, South Asian political leaders, Srinivasa Ramanujan, State of Emergency, travel, Women Political Leaders
Tags: Academia, advocacy, Analytical Consciousness, Aung San Suu Kyi, BBC, Benazir Bhutto, Bhutto supporters, Branding of Politics, British media/journalism, Burmese Democracy movement, Civil Disobedience, civil unrest, conspiracy against democracy, cultural Asian icons/leaders, culture, daily life, elections, Ethics, events, extremists, free press/speech, freedom, global news, global politics, global solidarity, government, History, house arrest, human rights, Iconic Imagery, Independent news media/journalism, Independent press, India-Pakistan relations, intelligentsia, international affairs, international politics, Journalism, justice, languages, law, links, mass protests, Media, media blackouts, Media Wonks, military, Musharraf, News, oppression, Pakistan, Pakistan People's Party-PPP, people, photojournalism, places, Police Brutality, PPP activists, protests, rallys, random, Rawalpindi, research, social issues, society, Solidarity, South Asia, South Asian Media, South Asian women in politics, State of Emergency, suicide bombins, travel, women, world, writing
Hossienis’ Kite snags but isn’t cut…
• December 8, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in Afghan society, Afghanistan, Akademie der Kunste, America & Middle East politics, American Artists, Amnesty, Amnesty International, Analytical Consciousness, ancient languages, Anthologies, anti-Muslim Kristallnacht, Apocryphal, art, art and society, Art&Design, Artistic Genres, Authenticity, Avadha, barbarians, Beat Generation, Beat Genres, Beat Literature, Beatitude, bibliophile, Bohemia, Bohemian Ink, books, brutality of Taliban era, cinema, civil unrest, Coffee House Press, collectives, community, conspiracy against democracy, creative writing, creativity, critical media, culture, culture consumption, dactylic hexameter, dactylic tetrameter, democracy, Democracy politics, desi-lit, Dharma Beat Poet, Diane di Prima, disparate collection of voices, Dissemintion of popular culture, Emancipation from Tribalism, Ephemeral Memory, Eros, Ethics, ethnic violence, experimental writing, fear of reprisal, Feminist critique/criticism, fiction vs reality, filmmakers, Fotografos, freedom, gender equality, geopolitical, global politics, government, Hellenic Knowledge, Hermetic & Esoteric traditions, History, Hollywood Behemoth, Hubris, human rights, Hypatia, hyperrealistic, Idiosyncratic politics, Independent press, Independent/Progressive publications, India-Pakistan relations, Information Suppression, Intellectual Milieu, international affairs, Iraq policy, Islamphobe, justice, Kabul, Khaled Hosseini, La Societe Feudale, liberation, liberty, Library of Ptolemis, life, Life&Death, Linguistics, Literary coterie, literature, Ma Sita, Media Wonks, memoirs, Middle East politics, modernist women writers, monculture catastrophe, Muslim extremists, Novelist, Oppressive Politics, Pakistan, photographic portraiture, Photography, photojournalism, Platonic Idealism, Pluralist Democracy, Poetess, Poignant Themes, political asylum, Political Moguls, Pomona Goddess of Fruits, Post Modernism, Post-Beat Era, Post-War decay, pre-war Kabul, Prose Fiction, psychopathology, pyschology, race, radical Islamists, religion, social critique, social philosophy, symbolism, The Kite Runner, travel, Tyranny, UNHCR, unjust hierarchy, Voice of Dissent, World Cinema
Tags: Afghan society, Afghanistan, Ahmad Khan, alternative cinema, American and Middle East politics, Amnesty, articles, Artistic Genres, artists, Authenticity, betrayal, books, brutality of Taliban era, child actors, civil unrest, commentary, community, creativity, culture, culture consumption, David Benioff, dissemintaion of popular culture, dominant Pashtuns, edcuation, Emancipation from Tribalism, entertainment, ethnic violence, exile, extremism, faith, family, fear of reprisal, ficition, fiction vs reality, film, filmmakers, freedom, friends, History, Hubris, human rights, hyperrealistic, Intellectual Milieu, international affairs, Islam, Khaled Hosseini, life, Life&Death, literature, Marc Forster, monoculture catastrophe, movies, Musings, News, novel to movie, novelists, novels, perfunctory, photos/photography, Poignant Themes, political asylum, politics, Post-War decay, pre-war Kabul, psychology, psychopathology, rape theme in film, religion, reviews, society, subjugated Hazara ethnic groups, The Kite Runner, thoughts, travel, UNHCR, United Arab Emirates (UAE), world, writing, YouTube, Zekiria Ebrahimi