Word: consciousnesses
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...Aaliyah’s role in Queen also derives great intrigue from some of Anne Rice’s earlier work. As one might expect from a genre that has as its protagonists denizens of an eternally undead demimonde, vampire literature seems to be linked almost inextricably to conscious and unconscious reflections on mortality and immortality. Such is indeed the case in Interview with the Vampire in which Louis, the vampire being interviewed, expresses deep ambiguity about his eternal unlife. On the one hand, Louis laments the loneliness and drudgery of eternal existence, talking of “languishing...
...dispatching suicide bombers on terror missions in the heart of Israel's cities, the attacks of the past week have focused on the symbols of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza - soldiers and settlers outside of Israel's pre-1967 borders. And that may be a conscious strategy to avoid driving the Israelis to circle the wagons around Sharon. Israel's deteriorating security and economic situation has sent the prime minister's approval ratings plummeting to 48 percent from a high of around 70 percent. From the right, he's facing calls to reoccupy...
...should never rely on its medium. It is a medium, and all should be done to express in physical terms what the subconscious and conscious want to communicate to the audience. There are other wonderful artists who use nudes as the best medium for what they do. Karen Finley finds the best meaning for her medium. So her work has great meaning, great effect, and is full of imagery and political stance...
Carlin Wing’s pieces, like “Sun-sun Co.: Hanging Meat,” present familiar marketplace images in a way that makes their familiarity painfully evident. Wing is hyper-self-conscious about symmetry and repetition, about pattern and economy of perspective. He uses ambient light to affect a sort of cheapness of color and thus draws attention to aesthetic costs of a buyer-friendly market place—lifeless blues and greens and oranges. The photographs themselves are mechanically arranged on the wall, with the same precision of placement and over-attention to balance...
...contributors include Chris Ware, Los Bros. Hernandez, Carol Lay, Dave Sim (with a refreshingly straight-forward appreciation of Alex Raymond), Jessica Abel and about 30 others, all of them "names." Maybe my favorite is Phoebe Glockner's anti-comic, "I Hate Comics." "I mean just look at this self-conscious crap," she begins, filling her panels with almost nothing but text. But it's still a comic...