Pics from Rally in Times Square Today
June 1, 2010 by herrnaphta
Posted in Gaza, Palestine, racism | Tagged flotilla, Free Gaza, Gaza, Israel, Palestine | 3 Comments
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And out of this worldwide festival of death, this ugly rutting fever that inflames the evening sky all round -- will love someday rise up out of this, too?
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interesting how the protesters’ placards are overwhelmed by, mixed up with, the billboards for maxwell and mama mia. or was that the whole point of the pictures?
I was wondering whether anyone would comment on that! The billboard noise wasn’t intentional in the pics, but unfortunately any protest in Times Square can’t help but be visually dominated by capitalist inveiglement. I thought it was particularly ironic that we were framed on one side by an ad for the new Prince of Persia movie, and on the other an ad for Sex and the City 2, effectively wedging our protest between two giant images of orientalist fantasy.
The image of the man and the dog is also compelling, and, I think, serves as something of an interruption. It recalls to me Derrida’s late work Animal that Therefore I Am or Kenneth Burke’s work on man as the symbolic animal. The dog fights no wars, and has no need for signs. Whether intentional or not, it appears as if the man contemplates, for a moment among the madness, the possibility of such an impossibly simple existence.