cynicism

The end of the belief in education (Peter Sloterdijk, 1983)

The old social democracy had announced the slogan Knowledge is Power as a practical and reasonable prescription. It did not think too much about it. The message was simply that one has to learn something real so that life will be better later. A petit-bourgeois belief in schooling had dictated the slogan. This belief is […]

• By Philippe Theophanidis on May 22, 2012 ― Published in Communication | Tagged: cynicism, education, knowledge, life, modernity, power, protest, school, Sloterdijk, student, university

Nostalgia interrupted: The paintings of David Lyle

☛ David Lyle: “Family Time”, oil on panel, 30” x 34”, 2011. © 2012 David Lyle. David Lyle was born in Okinawa, Japan, in 1971. He currently lives and works in downtown Manhattan. From his official bio page: David Lyle acts as both curator and painter, sifting through a vast array of lost snapshots from […]

• By Philippe Theophanidis on April 4, 2012 ― Published in Art, Communication, Painting, Technology | Tagged: America, crisis, cynicism, David Lyle, family, history, innocence, kids, melancholy, nostalgia, past, phantasm, present, television

Yue Minjun’s paintings [1]: “Between Men and Animal”, 2005

☛Initial Access: “Between Men and Animal” by Yue Minjun, oil on canvas, 280cm x 400cm, 2005 From Initial Access, the Frank Cohen collection: Minjun’s toothy faces have been likened to the expansive smiles of fashion models or faces in a toothpaste commercial but, although they have their origins in advertising and are based upon a […]

• By Philippe Theophanidis on November 25, 2010 ― Published in Art, Painting | Tagged: ambiguity, animal, capitalism, China, communism, cynical realism, cynicism, distance, happiness, history, indifference, man, neutral, Politic, realism, representation, suspension