HowTranscendental Meditation is David Lynch’s gateway to divergent and creative thinking. American Director David Lynch has been a prolific artist and filmmaker for over 40 years. Lynch’s entire body of work is a distinctive departure from the predictable in favor of the divergent and dreamlike. Lynch resists the linear strictures […]

“Here we have the principle of commodity fetishism, the domination of society by things whose qualities are “at the same time perceptible and imperceptible by the senses.” This principle is absolutely fulfilled in the spectacle, where the perceptible world is replaced by a set of images that are superior to that world yet at the same time impose themselves as eminently perceptible.” (Debord, […]

This article explores the understanding of the Culture Industry, the key theorists and how the culture industry works to conform to the capitalist system. Sitting within the capitalist system there are factors that maintain the survival of the Culture industry and its economic viability. I will also address the means of reproduction […]

What is Pop Art? Leading up until the 1950’s Art was traditionally separated from it’s mainstream audience. Art was considered valuable due to it’s aura, a term coined by Walter Benjamin. Art held high brow aesthetics and philosophies that were intellectually and financially out of reach for the mass audience to […]

Cover image VIA Postmodernism is a cultural phenomena that arose during the 1950’s and 1960’s. In western democratic societies, Post Modernism was influenced by popular culture and new technologies of reproduction that created new sensibilities that formed in response to these cultural shifts. This article looks into some of the nuances […]