So says the Baja Beach owner Conrad Chase, the owner of the first night club to swap VIP cards with an injected VIP chip inside one’s arm. The following video has been made by Drew Hemment director of the Futuresonic Festival. Reason for implementing this technology: “It has once again shown that the Baja Beach [...]
Problem of Theory & Practice in Gramsci & Dewey
Mar 21, ’08
12:04 PM
I’ve been reading a bit more Antonio Gramsci (Marxist Theorist) and John Dewey’s Art as Experience. Although the two have two very different notions of reality, they seem to have the same macro-problem. PROBLEM: Separation of Thought and Action. FOR GRAMSCI: Thought is the theory of contradictions in a society and action is the people’s [...]
A Painting of a Dying _____
Mar 10, ’08
1:16 AM
Today, I heard a story. A group of church elders commissioned an artist to paint pictures of a dying church. I suppose they wanted to move their congregation members by showing what they don’t ever want to be. However, when the artist produced a set of paintings, they were shocked to see a nice cathedral [...]