Galaxy of Signifiers: G.I. Joe and Jenny Holzer

17Feb09

While watching the G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra movie trailer during the Superbowl, I remembered an amazing article in the October issue of The Believer recounting the impact of G.I. Joe on visual conceptions of war, particularly during the 1980s, when most of today’s soldiers in Iraq were coming of age:
“G.I. Joe’s epic advertising [...]

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Black Box Apparatus

04Sep08

“Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony.”  “Leopards in the Temple”, Parables and Paradoxes, Franz Kafka.
Portland’s Vladmir has taken Kafka’s classic hermeneutic parable and [...]

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