-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Tagged
Art Art history art theft Banksy books climate change cthulhu cultural differences cultural issues culture cultured deconstruct deconstructed deconstructing deconstructive deconstructs definition of culture film Fourth of July hemingway history I culture you Labor Day leonardo da vinci literature Memorial Day mind.net music Picasso poetry politics PSA publishing RIP RIP 2016 sub culture superbowl The Plug and Play Life Trump video Vincent Van Gogh Voracious What is art? what is culture? writingArchives
Subscribers
Author Archives: editor, facilitator, decider
Only I can disenfranchise me
There is no compromise in the latter-day American political culture. Every side is convinced that they’re right, that the other side’s wrong, and that compromise equals betrayal. Lockstep conformity to ideology is the order of the day. It’s probably no … Continue reading
Posted in New Post
Tagged compromise, election, politics, voter ID laws, voter suppression
1 Comment
RIP Neil Armstrong (Aug 5, 1930 – Aug 25, 2012)
A sad farewell with greatest possible respect to fellow Ohioan, Korean War veteran, Naval aviator, and immortally intrepid explorer, Neil Alden Armstrong. One unforgettable mission, a quarter-million trail-blazing miles, and a single quote which captivated the world are things for … Continue reading
I tumbl for you
There just might be something unforgivably self-referential in using one blog to plug another. But anyway, here we go. Tumblr is an exponentially growing “micro blog” platform. Twitter, with its 140 teensy characters, has stolen and muddied that “micro” designation, … Continue reading
Art theft by amnesia?
Revisiting conspicuous art theft, we’re happy to say that this time, at least, the thief has been caught and the art recovered. New South Wales lawyer Michael Sullivan, seen here on CCTV examining two paintings by artist James Willebrant (after … Continue reading
Posted in New Post
Tagged art theft, Australia, Geoff White, Katoomba Fine Art Gallery, Michael Sullivan, New South Wales
2 Comments
Happily introducing HTT
Hope you’ll join me in welcoming Hot Tech Today, a particularly exciting tech blog for which I have the honor of contributing. Yet another tech blog, you’re saying. Oh, no. Not at all. This is something new entirely. I won’t … Continue reading
RIP Gore Vidal (Oct. 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012)
So passes perhaps America’s last great man of letters, Eugene Luther Gore Vidal. Novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, actor, and social critic; Gore Vidal has been an unmistakable, unforgettable voice in American culture since the late 1940s. Scion of two wealthy … Continue reading
London shines
The world has been asking, these last four years: how can the London games ever hope to compete with the Beijing pageantry of 2008? That Olympic-sized question has been answered at last, by way of a stunning three-hour opening ceremony directed … Continue reading
Saluting Doctor Gonzo
A belated birthday shoutout to the godfather of drug-addled journalism and hero to writers everywhere, Hunter Stockton Thomspon (July 18, 1937 – Februarly 20, 2005). There’s little the Deconstruction can say about Hunter that hasn’t already been covered by the … Continue reading
Flash mobs: the birth of an electronic tribe
Could it be that YouTube, and all it stands for, is what Andy Warhol had in mind when he promised us all 15 minutes of future fame? Without a doubt, internet video holds out a tantalizing potential for stardom; a … Continue reading
If there’s an apocalypse, don’t blame the Mayans
One of the risks we run when we dabble in (or fully appropriate) the cultures of others, is a complete freaking misunderstanding. That’s what we have here, with the supposition that the world is going to end this December, on … Continue reading
Deconstructing Independence Day
What, exactly, does this holiday mean? Is it “sacred,” as so many patriots claim? Is it even possible, or proper, for a secular celebration of a long-ago separatist war to be called “sacred”? Certainly, the Fourth of July is understood … Continue reading
RIP Andy Griffith (June 1 1926 – July 3 2012)
Fondest possible farewell to Andrew Samuel Griffith, favorite North Carolina son and favorite fictional North Carolina sheriff. Stand-up comic, gospel singer, political activist. Not to mention actor, whose roles defined American television for decades. But he wasn’t just Sheriff Taylor … Continue reading
Update: Cthulhu still sleeps (for now)
It’s not a hard and fast rule, here at the Deconstruction; more of a rule of thumb. It goes like this: every six months or so, if you can’t think of anything else to write about, write about Cthulhu. Cthulhu … Continue reading
Leonardo fading
Am I rearranging the Titanic’s deckchairs, by fretting over the condition of a 500 year-old drawing? With all that’s at stake in contemporary society, does art conservation really matter all that much? Oh, but I’d argue: if our culture’s worth … Continue reading
