Wicked Art: Marketing, Augustine, and the Demonic

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Douglass Rushkoff, “The Persuaders,” Frontline, Nov. 9, 2004, PBS.org, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders (accessed 4/13/13).

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Augustine of Hippo, City of God, trans. Henry Bettensen (New York: Penguin Press, 1972), 317.

Ibid., 350.

Ibid.

Statius, Silvae 1.6, in Anne Mahoney, Roman Sports and Spectacles: A Sourcebook (Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2001), 63.

In describing spectacle in terms of consumption, Plass cites Dio 60.13.1–2. See Paul Plass, The Game of Death in Ancient Rome: Arena Sport and Political Suicide (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995), 47.

Augustine, City of God, 71.

Ibid., 317.

Augustine of Hippo, Essential Sermons, ed. Boniface Ramsey, trans. Edmund Hill (New York: New City Press, 2007), 198.3.

Augustine, City of God, 176.

Ibid.

Ibid., 335–336, cf. 1 Cor. 10:20.

Ibid., 355.

Ibid., 364.

Ibid., 430–431.

This is the description provided by the National Constitutions Press Release for the Rome and America exhibit. The exhibit was on display from February 19 to August 1, 2010.

Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle, trans. Ken Knabb (London: AK Press, 2006), 9.

Ibid.

Ibid., 7.

Ibid.

W. J. T. Mitchell, What Do Pictures Want: The Lives and Loves of Images (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), 8.

John Ralston Sauls, Voltaire's Bastards (New York: Random House, 1992), 460.

Mitchell, 80.

Mitchell, 31–32.

Kenda Creasy Dean, Practicing Passion: Youth and the Quest for a Passionate Church (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004), 101 and 113.

See “The Man behind Abercrombie and Fitch,” Salon.com, http://www.salon.com/2006/01/24/jeffries (accessed 5/3/13).

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Chanon Ross

Chanon Ross is Director of the Institute for Youth Ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey.