capitalism Archives

Septuplet: How Art Can Nurture Radical Urban Immersion

04/05/2023

Embedded within our individual experience of life is the notion of consumption and presence, by which the parameters of human experience can be constructed (as much as it could be disrupted)....

Take Me To Your Dealer and Save: Who is 241247?

25/03/2021

An interview with 241247 / Dario Vigorito about using his creative process for chaos and meaning. ...

The Art Market and Surrealism

20/07/2020

Collecting Surrealism? There's so much choose from at an auction near you, wherever you are. Notes on the Art Market. ...

The Capitalist Mindwash and Oprah For President

01/02/2018

Enough of the rags to riches celebrity graft narrative - Oprah for President? Please, no....

Let Loose the Orange Beast and Good Riddance to Capitalism

04/01/2018

The age of Reagan reaches its apogee in Donald Trump. Now, bring on the fall....

Self-Medication or Self-Anesthesia: It’s No Wonder We Tune Out

15/12/2017

Beneficiaries of the system promote their lies; the sane seek solace where they can get it...

Winter? Embrace Your Depression, It’s The Soul’s Defiance

20/10/2017

Depression, seasonally affected or otherwise, may be the soul shunning the collective madness...

Smart Suits: Follow the Brains for Better Business

26/09/2017

Smart staffers: Why educated areas are good for business ...

Opportunity Can’t Be Looted

14/09/2017

Nobody loves a looter, but industrial-scale corruption is just fine...

Culling Yet More ‘Savages’: North Korea in Context

08/09/2017

If you wish to inflict genocide on a people, it's OK as long as you term them 'savages'...

Shake Those Chains – It’s Your Inalienable Right

18/08/2017

In a society dominated by money and its protection, your only rights are to shout impotently...

Fire and Fury: Perpetual War = Perpetual High Dollar

11/08/2017

The marriage of the high dollar to perpetual war becomes more blatant by the day...

Tune in, Turn On, Don’t die with your novel still in you.

08/08/2017

One man's wisdom is another man's trite platitude, but who wants to spend their life guarding dust?...

Deep State, Media Vampirism and the MOAB Bomb

18/04/2017

With the MOAB, High Dollar Despotism And Perpetual War show off their latest toy...

Affordable Care – For BigPharma. Time to Escape the Duopoly

23/03/2017

The rubble of Trump's presidency will form fertile ground for resistance - if we act now....

A Nuremberg Rally of One

27/02/2017

No book burning is required when the masses of the consumer state do not read books....

Anti-Trump Protests? Yes Please. Pro-Democrats Protests? No Thanks.

26/01/2017

Anti-Trump protests will lead nowhere if allowed to be channeled into the service of the Democratic Party. ...

Two Faces, One Evil: The Bi-Party Sham of US Democracy

14/12/2016

Clinton, Trump, Putin - Put any one of them in the White House, the rich still get richer...

Queasy Democrats – Make Your Wound a Womb

11/11/2016

Only an honest appraisal of the situation will prove of benefit for Democrats yet to come...

Deplorable Lives Matter : Why Sneering at Proles Doesn’t Work Either

05/11/2016

Angry alienated American whites are not a Trump invention, and patronising them won't make them go away...

Lessons in Leadership: What Sanders Could Learn From Corbyn

29/09/2016

Jeremy Corbyn's leadership triumph shows what Sanders might have been...

Is the US A New Weimar? If So, The Democrats Made It

21/09/2016

If Donald Trump is the symptom of US sickness, it is the Democrats who are the disease...

Fear and Fascism: Tools of the Trade

05/12/2015

To persist, the capitalist order demands submission to ruthless authority and must peddle fear of an alien other....

Attack, Retaliate, Attack. When Will it End?

23/11/2015

If their designs work out as planned, the elite will, as they always have, enrich their already engorged fortunes on the suffering and death of the powerless....

The Carnival of Consumerism and its Tawdry Trinkets

03/10/2015

How sensation replaces experience in the Late Capitalist Empire...

Small of Stature, Great of Nature

02/07/2015

The diminutive are spurned, scorned, defamed and relegated to the margins....

Entrenched imperial orders do not die pretty deaths

04/06/2015

The angst, humiliations, and sundry degradations of working people that are inherent to capitalism are unbearable for the multitudes...

Name-brand or generic?

16/02/2013

Name-Brand or generic: Conservatives and liberals don't just differ when it comes to politics, they may also make different purchases at the grocery store. ...