{"id":3107,"date":"2010-12-04T21:21:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T02:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=3107"},"modified":"2010-12-04T21:21:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T02:21:21","slug":"andy-warhols-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/andy-warhols-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Warhol&#8217;s Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening I took part in a recreation and reshowing of Andy Warhol&#8217;s eight hour epic film, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Empire_%281964_film%29\">Empire (1964).<\/a> I wasn&#8217;t there for eight hours&#8211;who could be on a snowy day in December&#8211;, but I was at the Varsity Theatre for about an hour of the showing and the related simultaneous events which included a variety of experimental music performed live in front of Empire (which is silent) and readings from <a href=\"http:\/\/thephilosophyofandywarhol.blogspot.com\/\">The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975).<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7idi_5IaMrk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7idi_5IaMrk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I read <a href=\"http:\/\/thephilosophyofandywarhol.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/9-economics.html\">Chapter 9 &#8211; Economics from the Philosophy book<\/a>. It&#8217;s very funny Warhol take on money and on being and not being rich ending:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t feel like I get germs when I hold money. Money has a certain kind of amnesty. I feel, when I&#8217;m holding money, that the dollar bill has no more germs on it than my hands do. When I pass my hand over money, it becomes perfectly clean to me. I don&#8217;t know where it&#8217;s been\u2014who&#8217;s touched it and with what\u2014but that&#8217;s all erased the moment I touch it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The showing was curated by Rich Cante of UNC&#8217;s Interdisciplinary Program in Cinema and the event co-sponsored by the Program in Cinema and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ackland.org\/\">the Ackland Art Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening I took part in a recreation and reshowing of Andy Warhol&#8217;s eight hour epic film, Empire (1964). I wasn&#8217;t there for eight hours&#8211;who could be on a snowy day in December&#8211;, but I was at the Varsity Theatre for about an hour of the showing and the related simultaneous events which included a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3108,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions\/3108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}