techniques of ecstasy

 Reification, the Marxist scholar Tom Bottomore writes, is the “most radical and widespread form of alienation characteristic of modern capitalist society,” the transformation of “human properties, relations and actions into properties, relations and actions of man-produced things which have become independent of man and govern his life

the cowboy philosopher

Why is it that we all don't go around with guns, like Mexicans in a Peckinpah film? Imagine that. I just think we shoot each other differently now. With cameras, for example. A shift of attention is like throwing a bomb.

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Beau Brummel designed himself as a "visual object" to assert the irreducible and inalienable intractability of selfhood.  The visual object called an abstract painting does the same on behalf of its maker's self, opening a blank space in the texture of institutionally recognized meaning.

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counter culture / joseph berke