The Urban Sherpa - a blog by Christopher DeWan

("aren't you a little old for an enfant terrible?"...)

The Urban Sherpa keeps a collection of stories and curios filed under Mythic Proportions.

Automobiles, Bombs, and Movies! rating=2

November 14, 2004
File under: Cogito Ergo, Hyper Real, Praxis Schmaxis

"Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.... It calls for Mickey Rooney in preference to the tragic Garbo, for Donald Duck instead of Betty Boop."

Three's Company

As our elections fall more and more into the domain of a "media ritual," how much they are governed by the same (market) forces described in Adorno / Horkheimer's conception of the "Culture Industry"...?

Discuss.

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