Trillions for War, Prisons, & Wall St. Bailout = No Progress

Millennium Goals, Global Poverty and the Peace Dividend - Turning Swords into Ploughshares

"The military, prison, and financial policies of the U.S. government are interrelated, creating a social system that is repressive and offensive to human dignity for people who experience it, especially the marginalized, the poor, the 'Third World'. The poor in America are filling the prisons and the 'Third World' are the fodder on the other end of the bombs in America's wars. In categorizing the abuse of power that is undertaken by institutions operating 'above the law' or through State privilege, the deprival of life by government policies through war and the deprival of liberty to individuals through imprisonment are particularly fundamental problems that relate to the basic human rights every person should enjoy equally. Capitalism is being used as a justification for these actions historically by American policies, leadership, and their rhetoric... When you discuss what the alternatives to the 'corruption' that favors the 1% or represents only a fraction of the 1% who are permitted an active or consequential role in politics, it seems that #ows is suggesting an alternative of direct, active, particpative democracy that is also interested in a reform of policy according to moral standards." + Understanding #ows - Noam Chomsky Interview

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postmodernism as a break with the aesthetic field

The Anti-Aesthetic

The Politics of Postmodernism - Submitted by: Raymond Schach

“The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture” was an influential postmodernist compilation edited by Hal Foster (1983) with contributing authors Jean Baudrillard, Douglas Crimp, Kenneth Frampton, Jurgen Hambermas, Frederic Jameson, Rosalind Kraus, Craig Owens, Edward W. Said and Gregory L. Ulmer. In his introduction to the book, Foster specifically argued that “anti-aesthetic” does not mean a reemphasis of modernism’s principle of aesthetic repudiation, or an anti-art stance, but rather is a critique of the very notion of the aesthetic in its modern manifestations with pseudo trans-historical and determinate meanings.

critical methodology in the construction of meaning

Duchamp & Semiotics

Personal cosmologies constructed in symbolic rule systems - Submitted by: Raymond Schach

In Marcel Duchamp’s paintings The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even [The Large Glass] (1915-23) and Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912), the manner in which the artist creates meaning in the works through the combination of visual and conceptual aspects can be seen as an example of the importance of critical methodology in social semiotics. The way Duchamp transfers the meanings of his own personal philosophy of art to the audience is characteristic of an approach to social semiotics that views art as a communication between subjectivities, with the object as a focal point for the transference to occur.

Vast Potential, Dynamic & Changing Market - Superflat

Surrealist Digital Animation

Ghost in the Shell vs. Superflat - Retrospective @ Futurism - Submitted by: Jon Akash

In looking for surrealism in contemporary art and popular media, it is important to understand the difference between the appropriation of surrealist symbolism for shock value within the stream of media images that comprises everyday mass-media communications and what the surrealists themselves sought to express. In searching for a historical definition, “The Surrealist Manifesto” written by André Breton in 1924 states: “SURREALISM, n. Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral conce...

‎‎‎"Mỹ Sơn is a cluster of abandoned and partially ruined Hindu temples constructed between the 4th and the 14th century AD by the kings of Champa (Chiêm Thành in Vietnamese). The temples are dedicated to the worship of the god Shiva, known under various local names, the most important of which is "Bhadresvara." Mỹ Sơn is perhaps the longest inhabited archaeological site in Indochina, but a large majority of its architecture was destroyed by US carpet bombing during a single week of the Vietnam War."
+ Buddhist Temples in Vietnam

‎"India will help conserve a portion of My Son sanctuary, a world heritage site in Vietnam that has one of the largest collections of Hindu temples and monuments, the oldest of which dates back to the 4th century AD. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) will be restoring the damage done by a weeklong US carpet-bombing during the Vietnam War. It’s been four decades but My Son’s 70-odd monuments still wear their war wounds from the B52 bomber raids of August 1969. The surrounding area is considered dangerous even now because of undetected landmines... Most of the shrines are Shiva temples and some are dedicated to other deities. The peak construction time was between the 8th and 10th centuries, when some of the most magnificent monuments had come up. Later, the area came under the influence of Mahayana Buddhism."
+ My Son Sanctuary Restoration

‎‎Aesthetics is the study of the feelings that emerge in people's impression and experience of god, nature, people and everything in the world. The environment and landscape are the main perceptual appearance of the ecosystem. How does this kind of perceptual appearance influence human soul? It is aesthetics that can answer this question. It is not only possible, but also essential, to study the ecosystem in terms of aesthetics"
+ Thoughts of Ecological Aesthetics

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Irrational Exuberance & Conspicuous Consumption

Theories of Value in Art

Charting Western vs. Eastern Fine Art Markets - Submitted by: Jon Akash

Theories of value in modern art relate historically to semantic, symbolic, and aesthetic elements combining in the consciousness of the individual to produce meaning and experience on a subjective basis. Value in art can be interpreted on both sociological and economic criteria related to the market for modern art internationally through a phenomenological methodology. This essay seeks to explore the differences in value between the Eastern and Western art markets and advances the theory that these relationships are best viewed in the form of a “human eco-system” in order to represent the full diversity of psychological factors that interrelate in forming this cultural environment.

Warhol: ‘What exactly is soul food?’

Andy Warhol's Diaries

Interpreting Pop Art through Primary Sources - Submitted by: Walt Sonnabend

“The Andy Warhol Diaries” by Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett (1991) is an excellent example of how a primary sourcebook can assist in interpreting the works of an artist. This book was written as collaboration between the two authors, with Pat Hackett acting as Warhol’s secretary and actually doing the stenography for the book. With regard to writing methodology, Hackett reports that she received calls from or called Warhol every day of his life from the late 1970’s until his death in 1987. Hackett transcribed these phone calls word for word into the diary, and then edited the diary for publication.

a documentary of deliberate confusion of form & content

Fictuality & the Real

Deviation from the accepted norms of documentary - Submitted by: Sara Riverston

Fictuality occurs in the intersection of the vanishing event and its creative treatment by the documenting and reporting subject, represented through the dynamic relationship that exists between the director and the audience in mass-media communications. Fictuality can be viewed through the lens of the camera, on stage, in the TV set, and through the mode of media reproduction used by the artist, author, or director. Fictuality can be viewed in the comparison of documentary practice to epistemology through the creation of divisions of fact and fiction in society by the duplication of images inscribed with symbolic or literal meaning in mass-media communication.

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	Conceptual Art - Frameworks of Modernism & Post-Modernism - Submitted by: Jeffrey Scott Conceptual Art is engaged inherently from the critical instinct to inquire into the nature of the creative process and the social definition of ‘art’ as object or process of communication. The relationship between the audience, author, and the themes communicated can be seen as operating across a multiplicity of social or subjective variables and interpretations unique to the participatory individuals involved in the process directly or peripherally. Conceptual art is widely regarded to have begun in the ‘dada’ movement that occurred in...	Jeffrey Scott
	The Influence of Cancer - A Review of “BODIES…The Exhibition” NYC - Submitted by: Stephanie Grant “BODIES…The Exhibition” is an educational program based around the display of human anatomy, using corpses of diseased individuals who left their remains to science for medical purposes. The visual power of seeing the human body exposed and transparent after death is shocking to the casual viewer, yet the power of the exhibit is in how the display communicates the breakdown of the organs in disease. “BODIES…The Exhibition” operates in one manner as a warning to the people who view the corpses, as the gross effects...	Stephanie Grant
	George J. Stigler - 1955 - “The Nature and Role of Originality in Scientific Progress” - Submitted by: Thomas Evers Stigler wrote that economists historically attract renown and attention by positing new theories which can be categorized by "buzzwords" and "catchphrases," though in practical terms researchers in the discipline may find them flawed and unusable for making accurate analysis and projections. Stigler begins by comparing Cournot to Mill, and stating that Cournot is considered a “great economist” because of his originality whereas Mill is viewed merely a “great expositor” because he lacked innovation in new concepts and merely...	Thomas Evers

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The New French Hacker-Artist Underground

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'UX, for “Urban eXperiment.” UX is sort of like an artist’s collective, but far from being avant-garde—confronting audiences by pushing the boundaries of the new—its only audience is itself. More surprising still, its work is often radically conservative, intemperate in its devotion to the old. Through meticulous infiltration, UX members have carried out shocking acts of cultural preservation and repair...'

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The Propaganda of Occupy Wall Street

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'Everything at Zuccotti Park was free—books, clothing, food—and donations were accepted to support the needs of the protesters... as much as they relied on the fiscal kindness of strangers, physical currency was an object of scorn for many of the activists. Ron Paul fans would be pleased with this phony bill’s assertion that the dollar is “worthless paper” and that “the Federal Reserve note is unconstitutional tender backed by nothing.”'

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