Tag: capitalism

241247, Untitled (Detail), 2012

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. ...

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Miro, Femme et Oiseaux 1940

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. ...

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The Capitalist Mindwash and Oprah For President

01/02/2018

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

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Donald Trump

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....

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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...

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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...

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Smart Suits: Follow the Brains for Better Business

26/09/2017

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

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Mincer by Dan Booth

Opportunity Can’t Be Looted

14/09/2017

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

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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'...

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Mincer by Dan Booth

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...

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papa che by Dan Booth

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...

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garden shed, downsized living

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?...

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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...

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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....

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anti trump protests

A Nuremberg Rally of One

27/02/2017

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

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anti trump protests

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. ...

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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...

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papa che by Dan Booth

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...

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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...

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papa che by Dan Booth

Lessons in Leadership: What Sanders Could Learn From Corbyn

29/09/2016

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

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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...

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fuzzyhead

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....

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barbed-wire

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....

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joker by Dan Booth

The Carnival of Consumerism and its Tawdry Trinkets

03/10/2015

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

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Dan Booth

Small of Stature, Great of Nature

02/07/2015

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

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mincerman by Dan Booth

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...

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Shoes by Bryce Eriksen

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. ...

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Consumer News: Rejecting a product may actually make you buy it.

15/02/2011

Consumer 's make purchasing decisions by choosing between alternatives or by rejecting certain options....

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