Archive for the 'social critique' Category
Politics of Fear
• July 14, 2008 • Leave a CommentPosted in Blog, Campaign 2008, cartoons & politics, dissemination of images, free-speech, government, intolerance & superstition, Islamphobe, magazine culture/critique, Obama & NYer Magazine Cover, political satire, political themes in art, politically inflammatory, politics, Politics of Fear, Public Debate, Republican politics, satire or sedition, satirical art, social criticism, social critique
Tags: Barry Blitt, critical media and critique, debate, dissemintaion of images, government, Iconic Imagery, Media Frenzy, Obama & New Yorker Magazine, opinions, Politics of Fear, satire or sedition
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
: PrAjnA :
• June 9, 2008 • Leave a CommentPosted in American Women Poets, Analytical Consciousness, Anthologies, art, Art&Design, Art&Poetry, Artisitc Milieu, Artistic Genres, artists, Authenticity, bibliophile, Blog, Bohemia, Bohemian Ink, books, Coffee House Press, collectives, community, creative writing, creativity, cultural icons, Cultural Shifts, culture, disembodied poetics, disparate collection of voices, dissemination of images, Ephemeral Memory, Eros, Femanifestos, Fotografos, ignored genres, Intellectual Milieu, Intuitive Wisdom, Life&Death, Linguistics, lit&bit, Literary coterie, literature, memoirs, modernist women writers, Novelist, Photography, Poetess, Poetics, poetry, Poets, Prajna, role of metaphor, small press, social criticism, social critique, Sourdough Mountain, Spontaneous Prose, Susan Sontag, vernacular modernism, Word & Image, writing, Writing & Poetics
Tags: Intuitive Wisdom, Prajna, role of metaphor, Susan Sontag
Silence
• April 19, 2008 • 2 CommentsPosted in America's Pop Culture, Analytical Consciousness, art, art and society, Art&Design, Art&Poetry, Artisitc Milieu, Artistic Genres, artists, Beatitude, bibliophile, black&white, Bohemia, books, Coffee House Press, collectives, contemporary art, creativity, Cultural Shifts, culture, Culture & Art, culture consumption, deliquescence, disparate collection of voices, dissemination of images, Ephemeral Memory, Hermetic & Esoteric traditions, humanity, Hypatia, Hyper-Commerical Industry, Iconic Imagery, Independent press, Independent/Progressive publications, Intellectual Milieu, life, Linguistics, lit&bit, Literary coterie, literature, modernist women writers, philisophical meanderings, photographic portraiture, Photography, Poetess, Poetics, poetry, Poets, Poignant Themes, post-punk cult, Progressive music, rhythmical grumbles, social critique, Sourdough Mountain, Spontaneous Prose, symbolism, Urban art, urban living, vernacular modernism
Tags: Abstract Expressionists, American consumerism, American Pop Culture, Analytical Consciousness, art, Art & Portraiture, Art & Society, Art&Poetry, Artistic Genres, Artistic Genres&Discourse, Artistic Milieu, artists, bibliophile, bibliophile. blogosphere, books, contemporary art, Cultural Shifts, Culture & Art, deliquescence, democracy, dissemination of images & words, Elspeth Murray, Intellectual Milieu, lit&bit, Literary coterie, literature, modern urban Life, new Works, philisophical meanderings, photographic portraiture, Photography, Pluralist Democracy, poems, poetry, Response to Apathy, Silence, Silenci, Sourdough Mountain, thoughts, writing, writing & creativity, Writing & Poetics
Weather Report
• April 15, 2008 • Leave a CommentPosted in 'Dear Ghosts', Aeolian dialect of Greek, American Poetry, American Surrealism, American Women Poets, Analytical Consciousness, Ancient Greece, art, art and society, Art&Design, Art&Poetry, Artforum, Artisitc Milieu, Artistic Genres, artists, Atavasim, bibliophile, Biographia Literaria, black&white, Bohemia, books, Coffee House Press, collectives, contemporary art, Contemporary Writers, creativity, cultural icons, culture, Delicacy of Perception, environmentalism, Eros, essayist, fin-de-siede milieu, Guggenheim Fellow, Hypatia, hyperrealistic, Iconic Imagery, Illuminati in the Void, Intellectual Milieu, life, Light & Darkness, Linguistics, lit&bit, Literary coterie, literature, modern urban Life, modernist women writers, new Works, Novelist, Photography, Poetess, Poetics, self-referential, social criticism, social critique, Symbolist, Tess Gallagher, Urban art, urban living, Wall paper icons, Wealth vs Poverty, Word & Image, writing, Writing & Poetics
‘Oddly…
• January 26, 2008 • Leave a CommentPosted in Analytical Consciousness, art, art & film, art and society, Art News, Art&Design, Art&Film, Artistic Genres, artists, Berlin Gallery, Berlin Germany, Bollywood themes in contemporary art/film, Chelsea, Cinematographic Film/Art, contemporary art, Contemporary Writers, creative writing, creativity, culture, Culture & Art, dissemination of images, Dissemintion of popular culture, filmmakers, Foreign Film, Fotografos, galleries, German Expressionism, Gesamtkunstwerk, Global Sameness, Intellectual Milieu, international exhibitions, Julien Rosefeldt, Literary coterie, modern urban Life, social critique, symbolism, theatre, travel
Tags: 'Asylum', 'Trilogy', alternative film/art, art, Art News, Art&Film, Berlin Gallery, Berlin Germany, Bollywood contemporary themes in film/art, cavalcade of stereotyps, Chelsea, cinematograhic film/art, creativity, Culture&Art, dissemintation of images/film, Film on Canvas, galleries, Globalized Sameness, international exhibitions, Julien Rosefeldt, racial/cultural narratives, sterotypes, Theatrical Tableau, tweaking consciousness
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
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