Fickle Ears

a weblog by musician Stefan Kac

10 May 2021

The Rosetta Stone of Hipsterism

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Jean-Michel Mension The Tribe: Conversations with Gérard Bérréby and Francesco Milo (1998) trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith p. 79 On the ...
08 May 2021

Len Bracken—Debord, Adorno, Time

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Len Bracken Guy Debord—Revolutionary (1997) ...the difference between Adorno's ideas and Debord's relates less to the question o...
07 May 2021

The First Angelinos

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Song was an integral element of Gabrielino rituals, and although songs could be performed independently of dance or ceremony, the latter ac...
06 May 2021

Gray Areas

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It was not just that Italians did not look white to certain social arbiters, but that they did not act white. In New Orleans Italian immigr...
04 May 2021

Engineering Beauty

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The fourth and most understandable error we made...was to have turned over all aspects of freeway route selection and design to the enginee...
03 May 2021

Walter Capps—Erikson, Psychohistory, Worldview

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Walter Capps "Erik Erikson's Contribution Toward Understanding Religion" in Ideas and Identities: The Life and Work of Erik E...
02 May 2021

Riesman on Public Performance

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In "progressive schools", Above all, the walls change their look. The walls of the modern grade school are decorated with the pai...
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01 May 2021

Lipstick Traces—Détournement Is Quick, You Are Slow

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Greil Marcus Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (1989) [My notes say:] p. 403—"On its own page, "The C...

Détournement and the Form-Content Binary

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Anselm Jappe Guy Debord (1993) trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith (1999) ...Debord's whole conception of society is founded on détournemen...

Détourn or Deform?

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"A Maximum of Openness: Jacqueline de Jong in conversation with Karen Kurczynski" in Expect Anything Fear Nothing (2011) ed. Ra...

Vincent Kaufmann on Détournement

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Kaufmann/Bononno, Guy Debord It's true that détournement is also based on a technique of dissimulation, if we insist on using the ter...

Détournement as Resistance to Ownership of the Commons

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McKenzie Wark The Beach Beneath the Street (2011) pp.40-41—Détournement as resistance to ownership of the commons The only problem I hav...

Debord and Wolman—Détournement

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Guy Debord and Gil J Wolman "A User's Guide to Détournement" (1956) in Situationist International Anthology (2006) trans....
30 April 2021

Karen Kurczynski—Jorn's Artistic Reality

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Kurczynski, The Art and Politics of Asger Jorn p. 201—quoting directly a "somewhat humorous" passage of Jorn's: What an artw...

Karen Kurczynski—Jorn's Distrust of Photography

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Kurczynski, The Art and Politics of Asger Jorn ...distrust of the prefabricated image in fact led him [Jorn] at first to dismiss—shortsigh...

Karen Kurczynski—Jorn on Abstraction and Inhumanity

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Kurczynski, The Art and Politics of Asger Jorn ...this renewed interest in painting [in the 1950s] had an important social function as a p...
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Karen Kurczynski—Détournement and Sexual Objectification

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Kurczynski, The Art and Politics of Asger Jorn p. 186—in an endnote Baum ["The Sex of the Situationist International", 2008] defe...

Karen Kurczynski—Jorn: Critique Is Secondary, Creation Is Primary

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Kurczynski, The Art and Politics of Asger Jorn ...the Lettrists stated in 1953, "Oblivion ( l'oubli ) is our dominant passion....
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Karen Kurczynski—Jorn's Critique of Functionalism

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Kurczynski, The Art and Politics of Asger Jorn Jorn argues, "It is a basic weakness of Functionalism that it cannot tolerate the idea...

Karen Kurczynski—Aesthetics Make an Appearance

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Kurczynski, The Art and Politics of Asger Jorn p. 105—on the Statsgymnasium in Aarhus Rational, ordered, rectilinear, Apollonian, the buil...

Karen Kurczynski—Jorn on Functionalism as Totalitarian

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Kurczynski, The Art and Politics of Asger Jorn p. 34—on "collective creativity" and the "open work" Given the context ...
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