Tactics of Resistance conference
“Where do you think Walter Benjamin would fit into this? Would he? This is not just an idle question. It bears on the question of generations and the continuity of tactics and ‘resistance’.” JZ
How an artist goes about creating a space for resistance is something that has occupied my thinking for a [...]
Marcel Duchamp was asked if readymades could in fact be produced by anyone, and he replied that not everyone is Duchamp. Is the “build-up of personality” in fact a superior replacement for “aura” (from the point of view of a culture industry which at least partly depends on the success of images as commodities), since [...]
That’s Entertainment – The Jam (from Sound Affects)
A police car and a screaming siren
Pneumatic drill and ripped up concrete
A baby wailing, stray dog howling
The screech of brakes and lamp light blinking
That’s entertainment, that’s entertainment
The smash of glass and the rumble of boots
An electric train and a ripped up phone booth
Paint splatters walls and the cry [...]
People Take Pictures of Each Other – The Kinks (from The Kinks – Are the Village Green Preservation Society)
People take pictures of the summer
Just in case someone thought they had missed it
And to prove that it really existed
Fathers take picture of the mothers
And the sisters take pictures of brothers
Just to show that [...]
This past Friday, Vancouver Sun columnist Shelley Fralic wrote about Vancouver Specials, and suddenly traffic to vancouverspecial.com increased tenfold.