"Ezra Jack Keats" was one of the first names to lodge in the memory of the young Flippanter, like "Spiro Agnew" and "Mick Jagger."
You could search "mid-century modern illustration" and see what turns up.
Oh wow, that turns up scads of it.
And also shows me that it's not the entire genre that appeals to me - plenty of the google images aren't particularly appealing. I guess there is different aesthetics within the style.
Yeah, it's the right period, but I don't really know if there's a name for the style. But that flat, simple look was very popular at the time. Partly because it was ideally suited to the reproductive technology of the period.
it was ideally suited to the reproductive technology of the period.
It's called rhythm method art?
rubylith, stat cameras, rapidographs. Horrible, horrible.
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Stirling Newberry is back
In the post-Pop era, there is no such thing as piracy.There isn't any such thing, because the public has already paid for popular culture by their loss of wages, freedom, and social mobility - that's the tax - and by their active labor. Something doesn't "go viral" until some real people spread it.
This means that rather than the socialism of class solidarity - that is, Marxism - or even the socialism of national necessity - that is, liberalism - or the socialism of militarism - that is fascism or naziism - we have the socialism of emiseration. An as yet unnamed socialism, which is the communism that comes from a combination of poverty and labor. That is, the same communism that, so long ago, produces plainchant and nameless sculptors of innumerable niches on Cathedrals. A neo-feudal socialism for what is, in fact, a neo-feudal age.
We remember Dufay, because he bothered to tell us he existed. The first circle is closed.
In the post-Pop era, there is no creation.
Umm, further on, he rhymes my fav Thomas Lamarre of Heian poetry and The Anime Machine. The otaku is the new paradigm.
Guattari more than Deleuze I think
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"A neo-feudal socialism"
William Morris?
I never did read Deleuze and Guattari.
9, 10: Actually, "the socialism of national necessity - that is, liberalism" is just as puzzling.
Should I go on? Just one. I cut-and-paste because I am not comfortable with any ideal of originality. Read SN.
1) Think about what, social conditions and practices, is the same and what is different in (feudal) poaching, capitalist stealing, and post-modern "piracy." Remember that David Harvey says we are in an era of "accumulation by dispossession." What is accumulated? What is dispossessed?
2) 11) Me neither. I read people, much smarter and more erudite than I, who have read D & G. Who have stolen from D & G. Newberry doesn't mention influences or sources (!) but there is also Manuel DeLanda. I recommend the Lamarre very highly, anime and fun, state of the art J Butler and post-Mulvey.
3) To get back to the OT, tangentially, the post-Marxianpost-Capitalist whatever theory asks who are the producers and what is produced? Late Capitalism, Keynesianism, Fordism created consumers and demand. Now it isn't Le Miz that creates the surplus. Nor does the movie create fans. The fans create a social system that can be dispossessed by rentiers. The fans really create the product, which is a social network that can be vampirized. Think Twilight, think 50 Shades, imagine that h-g spreads the work of the linked artist or genre around and it goes viral. The point isn't that it is great art worth paying for. Social networks create the demand, which is the product. Fans, otaku, are the producers of the surplus.
4) He said "neo-feudal socialism" emphasis on the neo. "Guillaume de Marechal, for your valour and loyalty, I grant you the Marches of Hurthelbutt." Whatever. What did Marshall get? Worth nothing without a community of producer serfs who thought they had some rights to their production.
"Peter Jackson, I grant you..." It barely mattered what Jackson put out there, did it? Jackson is a rentier.
5) I don't have time for #12
OT: Anyone ever read any Adam Phillips? What's good? Where to start?
Am suddenly feeling like a little psychoanalytic criticism would be a fun add to the broth.
"There are no desiring-machines that exist outside the social machines that they form on a large scale; and no social machines without the desiring machines that inhabit them on a small scale."
The Wachowskis are only a small part of what made The Matrix successful. A theft-ridden mashup? Of course it had to be.
"I here with grant you the rights to:"
Ishtar?
Cloud Atlas 8.1 rating, superstar talent, everything but a pre-existing or self-creating fanbase. $100 million budget, $9.6 million gross
Movie versions of Lost or Walking Dead?
Would it matter how good they were?
What IP is about is not the product, the desmesne. What is dispossessed, sold and owned are the captive self-producing fans, serfs, the free labour that creates its own community of desire (and spectacle).
Now Halford can come around and declare that damn right his employers created, control, and own the audience
Communism is already here. We are the only producers, and the only product. We just need to realize it.
We are the only producers, and the only product. We just need to realize it.
"It's people. Soylent Green is made out of people."
what you like young ms. geebie is charley harper. so much goodness. I think it's worth acquiring the big book (big copy of an illustrated life), cutting out the birds, and framing them and hanging them in a grid. although I see now that they offer many more nice things with his images on them than they did just 3-4 years ago. I'll ask husband x for pointers, this is his fave thing.
I read a little Adam Phillips in my more psycho-a days. I remember being interested but sorta uncertain what the hell I was reading. This is hardly helpful.
19: There's a line of Harper fabric coming out this year that has me excited! Adorable alphabet books, too.
in my more psycho-a days
I assume you mean psychoanalytical, Mr. Smearcase, but "psycho-a" makes it sound like your life was a thriller. Maybe it was thrilling.
Zdenek Miler, illustrations rather than movies, older rather than newer, and plants over animals. sample
although I see now that they offer many more nice things with his images on them than they did just 3-4 years ago.
AB has acquired a few of those, including a perfect cardinal that hangs framed on our powder room door (so you're face to face when seated). Love the Harper.
And yes to 23. I think my next Xmas present for AB is already picked out.
For several years I thought I liked Charley Harper, but couldn't tell if I was just being nice to my grandparents who love him so much. Nice reassurance here.
