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Tag Archives: Aldous Huxley
nihilism : brave new world
Seduced. The abolition of logic and its replacement by spontaneity. The will to nothing. No permit requited. The strange guest, nihilism, at the door. Somehow the grain of the new, a weird perversion of creationism which combines the anxiety of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Atheism, David Brooks, David Hume, Donald Kuspit, h.p. lovecraft, Hannah Arendt, Heath Ledger, Jeremy Bentham, Michel Houellebecq, Nietzsche, nihilism, Pablo Picasso, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, willem de Kooning, william lane craig
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reptiles: jurassic spark
The individual as mistake. Imperfection. An enraged Yahweh dissatisfied with the result, torn between creating in his image and getting anxious as they approached? Maybe better to kick the proverbial can of evolution down the road and let succeeding generations … Continue reading
smelly little orthodoxies
Probably the best piece yet on Hitchens since it places him within a wider context than the sniping and nitpicking that has been the norm on the left, or better yet the left-left,that endless recess of bourgeois values, the browned-out … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Bill Maher, Christopher Hitchens, Edward Said, George Orwell, George Woodcock, H.G. Wells, Hieronymous Bosch, jon stewart, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Simon Houpt, Susan Sontag, Umberto Eco
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the big lie
The new exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago is a look at Soviet poster art , propaganda posters, from the 1940′s. Its a voyage back to Orwell and 1984. But, a closer examination, of Orwell, would show that 1984 … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged “Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945.”, Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, Art Institute of Chicago, eve m. kahn, George Orwell, Leon Trotsky, Noam Chomsky, soviet propaganda posters, Theodor Adorno, viktor deni, Walter Lippmann
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merry pranksters: Joke on who?
The hippie culture will never die. It seems like we have to keep immortalizing it, reinventing it in some way in order to make a buck off it. Whatever its almost Durkheim inspired alturistic origins and optimism for a kinder, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alex Gibney, David Brooks, Dennis Hopper, gregory bateson, Irving Penn, Ken Kesey, Max Horkheimer, Neal Cassady, Noam Chomsky, pierre bourdieu, Richard Alpert, Richard Nixon, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler, Timothy Leary, Tom Wolfe, Walter Benjamin
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giants: part metal packets
Apparently, size does matter.They are giants. twelve feet high; a haunting reminder of the ancient nephilim said to have wandered the earth in a remote past. But these are mythological monsters transformed into autonomous structures that do feed a certain … Continue reading
elusive secrets: you can’t take it with you
The relationship between surrealism and art in Mexico as both intimate and contentious.The surrealist figures and their representation all seem close-knit and entirely of themselves, inhabiting a peculiar world of frozen motion and dark spaces. It is a separate world … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Antonin Artaud, Charles Baudelaire, Diego Rivera, Edward Lucie-Smith, Frida Kahlo, Jacques Derrida, Jean Paulhan, maria izquierdo, mexican painting, Pablo Picasso, Paule Thevenin, Samuel taylor Coleridge, William Burroughs
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will the circle be unbroken: the divine is immanent
James Frazer retold ancient myths in The Golden Bough in such a way that he re-intepreted them, renewed them and thus ended up creating a new version of the myth. A homogenized version that has been packaged and marketed ever … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Elvis Presley, Friedrich Nietzsche, Homer The Odyssey, James Frazer, james george frazer, jane ellen harrison, Jim Morrison The Doors, Joseph Campbell, Marilyn Monroe, mary renault, steve sailer, The Doors
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