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11 Feb 2022

Rawdon Lilly: Notes Towards a Character Study

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Adapted from the cover of Henry Miller's   Notes on 'Aaron's Rod', ed. Seamus Cooney,  (Black Sparrow Press, 1980)     I.   ...
8 Feb 2022

Sweet Sixteen (In Memory of Sid Vicious and My Own Punk Youth)

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John Beverley, aged 16, in his pre-punk days  prior to becoming Sid Vicious, Sex Pistol. Me, aged 16, in my post-punk days, but still sporti...
7 Feb 2022

Even Nice Guys Get Things Wrong

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Russell Crowe as Healy and Margaret Qualley as Amelia  in The Nice Guys (dir. Shane Black, 2016)     There are many things to like and admi...
6 Feb 2022

The Rich Can Buy Soap: Why I Find Shepard Fairey's Hope Poster Problematic

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Shepard Fairey in front of his portrait of Barack Obama before its installation  at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. in 2009...
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4 Feb 2022

Notes on Fair Use with Reference to the Case of Shepard Fairey and the Obama Hope Poster

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Shepard Fairey: Portrait of Barack Obama / Hope Poster (2008) Based on the photograph by Mannie Garcia / Associated Press (2006)     I. Fair...
2 Feb 2022

On Self-Esteem and Self-Harm; Selfies and Self-Destruction

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Keith Negley: Self-Harm (2019) keithnegley.com     I.    Self-harm is an interesting phenomenon: one that the German philosopher Byung-Chu...
31 Jan 2022

Travels in Hyperculture With Byung-Chul Han 2: Is There an Alternative to Tourism?

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(Polity Press, 2022)     I.  I closed part one of this post with a question that Byung-Chul Han puts to his readers: "When the 'he...
30 Jan 2022

Travels in Hyperculture With Byung-Chul-Han 1: We Are All Tourists Now

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  In nil sapiendo vita iucundissima est     I.   As Jarvis Cocker correctly observed back in 1995: Everybody hates a tourist [a] .    Howev...