Art and Discontent: Theory at the Millennium by Thomas McEvilley

Art and Discontent: Theory at the Millennium Thomas McEvilley ebook
Publisher: McPherson & Company
ISBN: 9780929701318
Format: pdf
Page: 184

4 days ago - Some things have changed since the turn of the millennium - for one, Marilyn Manson's career is not what it was in the late 1990s - but some things have stayed the same. Dec 22, 2009 - The millennium will be ushered in, we are told, when all men become well to do. Righteousness and purity, peace and On the contrary, discontent was consuming his soul ; and his experience knocks the bottom out of every theory of living which makes contentment contingent upon the things which this world can supply. We grudge no man his heritage in the . Oct 16, 2013 - What is to become of critical culture in this dumbed-down millennium? Feb 21, 2011 - Art that is not simply a clever idea or a work of eye-catching technical skill, so that it is worth the space it takes up, requires the canvas to be informed by a meaning and for the brushstrokes to be animated by an imperative to act. Aug 19, 2007 - It is Edward Bernays who fine-tuned the art of public relations in the 20th century. Introduction Chomsky is really pissing me off, himself failing to note how ripe for fascism the discontented and cynical are. Let us each say with intention, as William Law would say, "Thou art the King of Glory, O Christ. Is this not an indictment of his refusal to engage social theory, his anarchist vantage point, not to mention his isolation on the ground level from the barbarism pervading American culture, while focusing the lion's share of his attention on American foreign policy? Unfortunately, in that time, incredibly One of the stranger theories I heard this week came from Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday, who singled out the work of Seth Rogan and Judd Apatow as a possible breeder of discontent within the male population. My theory claims that we are confronted with growing disenfranchisement and apathy in the face of the de-bunking of our comforting myths and religious stories—a consequence of telescopic technological and scientific changes.