Jack Eidt, Author at WilderUtopia

Lauren Monroe Jr. artist, Blackfeet Tribe

Geo-Fauvism: Waking to the Wild Earth Through Visual Art

June 5, 2015 by Jack Eidt 9 comments

This is the first post in a series where I present the case for Geo-Fauvism, a growing movement of wild earth inspiration in art, literature, music and design. Taking off from the early 20th Century French art “Fauvists” or “Wild Beasts,” these cross-disciplinary creations respond to and react against the collapse of global environmental systems, the destruction of indigenous earth-based societies, and a narrowing of cultural opportunities in the mainstream corporatized media. Geo-Fauvists create to reconnect with the wild and heal humanity’s rift with the landscape, building a new community based on integration with the ecosystem.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, 2016 Presidential campaign

Politics and Advocacy

Sorry, Democrats, Hillary Clinton is Not a Progressive

May 2, 2015 by Jack Eidt 7 comments

What kind of President would Hillary Clinton be? According to her record, she has consistently favored big business, multinational billionaires and the national security state, at the expense of the “everyday Americans” she claims to “champion.” Not in the least progressive.

Max Ernst, Dada, The Chinese Nightingale

Film, Visual Art

Dada as the Antidote to War and Capitalism

April 25, 2015 by Jack Eidt 2 comments

In the sobering aftermath of World War I in Zurich, Dada preached a radical-yet-whimsical philosophy of creativity, a self-styled anti-art. Random and meaningless by definition, calculatedly irrational by design, for a short time the movement spread like revolt to the US and across Europe, voicing the bizarre protest of a brave new community of artists and writers.

Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras, Ciudad Blanca

Humanity

Lost White City “Discovered” in Honduran Jungle?

March 11, 2015 by Jack Eidt 6 comments

In search for legendary “City of the Monkey God,” explorers ignore indigenous residents and archaeologists who have worked in the region for years, and shamefully claim to find the “untouched ruins” of a “vanished” culture found in the remote Moskitia region eastern Honduras.

Chris and Cosey, Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle

Sound

Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial Emotions Broke Noisy Ground

March 7, 2015 by Jack Eidt 2 comments

The first band ever to be called “industrial,” Throbbing Gristle’s confrontational live performances and use of disturbing imagery, mixed with pre-recorded tape samples and special effects, created a distorted sound performance, quite ground-breaking in its time. Spinoff bands Psychic TV and Chris and Cosey continued to shock and beautify into the 1980s.

$Chaco Canyon threatened by fracking$

Energy, Rituals and Traditions

Fracking Boom Surrounds Sacred Chaco Canyon

February 19, 2015 by Jack Eidt 1 comment

The fracking boom threatens Puebloan and Hopi ancestral homelands around New Mexico’s sacred Chaco Canyon and local Diné communities are fighting drilling, pipeline projects and just general industrialization of their region without bringing real economic development. See the videos from the Solstice Project.

Autonomous Vehicles, Self-Driving Cars, pod cars

Transportation

Pod Cars: Autonomous Vehicles vs. Personal Rapid Transit

February 17, 2015 by Jack Eidt 6 comments

The age of the pod car might be upon us, but not necessarily as the long-envisioned Personal Rapid Transit. Good for amusement parks and Google’s main campus, as well as small newly-built cities or airport shuttles, PRT systems have too many limitations in dense urban areas. The real future for the pod car, like it or not: Autonomous (Self-Driving) Vehicles.

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