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D R U X  
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"Part figurative, part abstract, Drux Flux is an animated short compris[ing] fast-flowing images showing modern 
people crushed by industry. Inspired by One-Dimensional Man, by philosopher Herbert Marcuse, the filmmaker
deconstructs industrial scenes and their terrifying geometry to show the inhumanity of progress."

http://www.nfb.ca/film/drux_flux_en/ [Plenty o' wacky filmz to edify/stupefy/mortify & etc.-fy you, featured at this site]




One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society is a 1964 book by philosopher Herbert Marcuse.

Marcuse offers a wide-ranging critique of both contemporary capitalism and the Communist society of the Soviet Union, documenting 
the parallel rise of new forms of social repression in both these societies, as well as the decline of revolutionary potential in the West. 
He argues that “advanced industrial society” created false needs, which integrated individuals into the existing system of production and 
consumption via mass media, advertising, industrial management, and contemporary modes of thought.

This results in a “one-dimensional” universe of thought and behaviour, in which aptitude and ability for critical thought and oppositional 
behaviour wither away. Against this prevailing climate, Marcuse promotes the “great refusal” (described at length in the book) as the only 
adequate opposition to all-encompassing methods of control. 

Much of the book is a defense of “negative thinking” as a disrupting force against the prevailing positivism.

Marcuse also analyzes the integration of the industrial working class into capitalist society and new forms of capitalist stabilization, thus 
questioning the Marxian postulates of the revolutionary proletariat and the inevitability of capitalist crisis. In contrast to orthodox Marxism, 
Marcuse champions non-integrated forces of minorities, outsiders, and radical intelligentsia, attempting to nourish oppositional thought 
and behavior through promoting radical thinking and opposition. He considers the trends towards bureaucracy in supposedly Marxist countries 
to be as oppositional to freedom as those in the capitalist West.

Critical theorist Douglas Kellner claims in his book Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism that One-Dimensional Man was one of the 
most important books of the 1960s and one of the most subversive books of the twentieth century. Despite its importance, it was—due to its 
subversive nature—severely criticized by both orthodox Marxists and academic theorists of various political and theoretical commitments. 
Despite its pessimism, represented by the citation of the words of Walter Benjamin at the end of this book that “Nur um der Hoffnungslosen 
willen ist uns die Hoffnung gegeben” (“It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us”), it influenced many in the New Left
as it articulated their growing dissatisfaction with both capitalist societies and Soviet communist societies. One-Dimensional Man was the book 
that made Marcuse famous.

-- from https://ivystore.wordpress.com/2014/12/0...-man-1964/


If watching in 2-D just doesn't do it for you, why, then -- just don your snazzy 3-D specs and join the crowd!:






(Actually, this version actually looks pretty good in 2-D, too -- a dash more psychedelically surrealist,
which is often a good thing.)

Bonus: Highly technical 3-D specs test & calibration vid, to optimize your depth-enhanced viewing experience:

 

Pour lagniappe, a vintage surrealist avant-garde film right up Drux Flux's  industrially-zoned alley:



"Ballet Mécanique (1923–24) is a Dadaist post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by 
the artist Fernand Léger in collaboration with the filmmaker Dudley Murphy (with cinematographic 
input from Man Ray). It has a musical score by the American composer George Antheil. However, 
the film premiered in a silent version on 24 September 1924 at the Internationale Ausstellung neuer 
Theatertechnik (International Exposition for New Theater Technique) in Vienna presented by Frederick 
Kiesler. It is considered one of the masterpieces of early experimental filmmaking."


Noted bohemian artist & artist's muse Kiki of Montparnasse's smile:



L'Éternel Féminin . . . archetypal deep-psyche verity -- or shallowly-patriarchal exploitative myth? Or what?

Only Betty knows!:



https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kik...ntparnasse

A bit more of Kiki as seen by Man Ray:
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/obj....6467,0.43
http://www.anothermag.com/art-photograph...ntparnasse
http://25.media.tumblr.com/7d357a6782296...r1_500.gif