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Friday, March 30, 2007
Here is an expansive site that contains a wide range of psychedelic posters from the 1960's. The graphic art that was used was possibly the most inventive poster design of all time. It borrowed heavily from the Art Nouveau style and incorporated flowing text to simulate the psychedelic experience, used mostly to promote various concerts from that era.
Friday, March 23, 2007
The rise of censorship of comics had a parallel with the increasing prohibition of marijuana. Just as comics had a code of content created that had restrictions because of its supposed bad influence, there was the belief that marijuana also contributed to child delinquency and was a public menace. However, for a time beginning in the 1960's there were underground comics that had more freedom of content, and generally showed the positive side to marijuana.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Michel Foucault's work on governmentality helped to focus the study of the phenomenon of neoliberalism. The shift has been from politics not interfering with the economic as a natural occurrence, to the economic being the foundation of all social interaction. Here government must protect the market where all individuals are entrepreneurs, including workers who contribute labor. Therefore the responsibility is placed on the individual, but the structural control is retained by owners of capital and the government. Governmentality is a space for this type of rationality that disciplines individuals and groups.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
There are very inventive ways to edit film that is beyond the simple linear progression of a plot. Directors like Alain Resnais, Jean Luc Godard, and others of the French New Wave began this style of nonlinear editing appreciated by a select audience. Recently, movies like Babel have applied thie style for movies that have a wider audience appreciation.
Friday, March 09, 2007
Alain Badiou presented an idea of truth as an event that erupts into the structure of reality. It begins as a singularity that is universalized where the subject can know what is absolutely true and beyond structures. Jacques Lacan was the opposite of this position, in that he proposed a divided subject that is split between a conscious acceptance of law as truth and an unconscious drive to transgress the law. Truth becomes dependent upon the psychological perspective of the subject rather than an outside event.
Monday, March 05, 2007
Here is a list of subjects that would make for interesting political reading. There are many well established stories in American politics, but there is also the small hidden anecdotes that may say more about our political history than the we know.
Saturday, March 03, 2007
The formation of subjectivity within capitalism begins with the creation of a working class in the beginning of a capitalist economy. This changes into the expansion of capitalism into all aspects of social relations in the present. Capitalism thus exists on two levels. One is the eternal level where the appropriation of value from workers is a constant, and the other is the historical level where there is the development of formal subsumption into real subsumption over time. Real subsumption is where economic base and social superstructure determine each other equally.
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