Monthly Archives: July 2012

Totem & Taboo – New Singer, New Single

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

Love was all one golden chain, slipping through me You were once a golden chain, slipping through me listen and download at totemandtaboo.bandcamp.com

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The Cult of Krauss

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

You know you’ve reached the acme of academic rocksuperstardom (and also that we really do live in a postmodern culture which is officially done with ‘authenticity’ and ‘originality’) the day people begin producing historical reenactments your conference talks, as performance … Continue reading →

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Unsaidquarters – Pioneer Day 2012

Posted on July 24, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

The sun had risen up. All rain and clouds were gone, as was all hail to see. I stood looking at the lone invasive tree. I touched fruit skin. I dared to pick it. All seemed given to be God … Continue reading →

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Totem & Taboo – The Instruments We Used

Posted on July 24, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz
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The Spectacle of The Body in The Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

The enlargement of a snapshot does not simply render more precise what in any case was visible, though unclear: it reveals entirely new structural formations of the subject. So, too, slow motion not only presents familiar qualities of movement but … Continue reading →

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The Shortcomings of Science – Knowledge Only Occurs within An Ideological Apparatus

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

Etienne-Jules Marey‘s Gun Camera Walter Benjamin identifies, in his work on mechanical reproduction, the intimate connection between the film industry and the war industry. The technical conditions for the production of one are virtually identical with those for the production … Continue reading →

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Coming Soon

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz
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Multimedia Art as (Potentially) Revolutionary Chance Encounter

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

“As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.” ― Comte de Lautréamont Blast No. 1: ‘Review of the Great English Vortex’ (cover of the Vorticist journal) Wyndham Lewis, ed. June 20, … Continue reading →

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Dadamax – Human Form as War Machine

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

To accompany Artaud and Benjamin: Hal Foster “Armor Fou” October, No. 56 “High/Low: Art and Mass Culture” Spring 1991 The MIT Press Jacob Epstein Rock Drill (1915) Replica of Dismantled Original Arno Breker Be Prepared (1939) Works of Art from … Continue reading →

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Rat Art – Living In The ’80s

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

Killing Joke [Christy] Rupp and I live in the same building in lower Manhattan, just a few blocks south of City Hall, where the most reactionary mayor in New York’s recent history delivers the city over to powerful real estate … Continue reading →

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