A Response to John Ebert’s Review of Cloverfield By William Irwin Thompson As always, John, an interesting spin on the ordinary. Yes, catastrophes are coming our way, which is why I feature them so strongly in my essay on “Catastrophist Governance and the Need for a Tricameral Legislature.” But another point is that our culture […]
Archives for April 2008
On James Bond
The Tribal Cosmology of James Bond By John David Ebert The first James Bond novel, Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale, appeared in 1953, just as the Korean War was coming to an end and the C.I.A. was planning the removal of Mossadegh from office in Iran. Within a few years, the U.S. government would begin sending […]
On Andy Warhol
 Andy Warhol: Prophet of You Tube By John David Ebert 1. Andy Warhol was the first great icon painter of electronic society. In contemplating his gallery of celebrity portraits, we are struck by the possibility that some Medieval icon painter, an Andre Rublev, say, had died and been reborn in the twentieth century as a […]