“The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. Suburbia lives imaginatively in Bonanza-land. –Marshall McLuhan
This image has been haunting me [...]
Also tagged Graphic DesignMy paper for the EAAS conference in Oslo last week dealt with icons and icon work, continuing a line of research I began about 5 years ago when I participated in a conference in Austria with the theme of US Icons. The convener of both the AAAS event in 2003 and of the Oslo workshop [...]
Also tagged Journals and Publications, Photography, Postmodern Culture, The 70sAfter last week’s ABC Democratic primary debate, the Bag posted a great series of TV frames as a visual recap to the debate. In my earlier post I wrote;
This is by far the most succinct summary of last night’s debacle of a debate TV show hosted produced by ABC News Disney Entertainment. This captures the [...]
Barack Obama may have committed a major political faux pas last week when he spoke out on the attitudes of some prospective working class voters: “It’s not surprising then,” he said, “that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment [...]
Also tagged 2008 Race, Media and Media Theory, SemioticsThis article is partially a response to Bent’s last post, Beauty and the Beast? I had originally intended on posting the Lebron Vouge Magazine photo which Bent analyzes below. I then thought I would post a reply in his thread but upon further reflection, I think an independent post is in order. I typically wouldn’t [...]
Also tagged Photography, Race and EthnicityThe final instalment in my Beat Generation Revisited course dealt with Beat aftermaths, in the sense of what cultural legacies of the Beat Generation texts and ideals might still be present in the 21st century – whether specifically in the US, or in a Danish/Scandinavian context – or at large in a globalized space/time compressed [...]
Also tagged Film, Literature, Music, Postmodern Culture, The Arts and Culture“America I’m putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.”
H/T the Literary Outpost.
This is Ginsberg reciting his poem but I don’t know why the word order is changed from the original. I’m sure Bent could help us with this.
I think this re-mix is fantastic. I’ve emailed the creator of the video to ask her/him about the [...]
Not sure how many know about Piled Higher and Deeper, but more should definitely read it.
Also tagged Announcements, ComicsRecently, no less than three glossy magazines published photo serials which reenact earlier high points of visual culture:
Vanity Fair published a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock’s films, recreating classic moments with new actors.
New York Magazine recreated Marilyn Monroe’s photo shoot with Douglas Kirkland for Look Magazine, often referred to as “The Last Sitting”, using Lindsay Lohan [...]
2007 was a very good year for Kerouaciana. Not only was it the 50th anniversary of the publication of his break-through novel On the Road, but it was also a year marked by many new scholarly initiatives and publications, media products and artistic productions of various kinds, and not least a full blossoming of [...]
Also tagged Criticism, Documentary, Literature