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Tag Archives: David Hume
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
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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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striving to please: the second tear
It always strives to please. Pleasing and self-congatulating as a ready-made. Kitsch. The inevitable feature of an art in which too much money and desire is chasing too little taste and knowledge. If Kitsch is like the common cold, impossible … Continue reading
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Tagged Clement Greenberg, Clive Bell, David Hume, Denis Dutton, Fernand Leger, Hannah Hoch, Harold Rosenberg, hermann broch, Howard Jacobson, john currin, Luke Fildes, Marcel Duchamp, Mel Brooks The Producers, milan kindera, stuart davis, Theodor Adorno, Thorstein Veblen, tomas kulka, Walter Benjamin
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london calling : crumb’s boswell journal
Adult sexual obsession. A madness that is disquietingly normal. The madness of the ordinary.The kind of torment that completes itself in sexual obsession. There is something uncanny in Robert Crumb’s caricatures of James Boswell, something that connects bad and bawdy … Continue reading
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Tagged charlotte ann burney, David Hume, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Fanny Burney, Henry Fielding, henry singleton, James Boswell, jay david bolter, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Lord Chesterfield, Pasquale Paoli, richard grusin, Robert Crumb, Theodore Dalrymple, walter pape
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assisted art
It’s definitely low-brow. It does conjure up images of super-heroes. Not surprisingly, such controversial figures like “Dr. Death” tend to generate a fetish excitement. Jack Kevorkian’s defense that “acts by sheer common sense are not crimes,” posited a view of … Continue reading
closing the sacredness gap
There is a conjunction, a point of inflection between morality and emotion that translates itself into the political sphere in an almost predictable yet unsettling fashion. Its a zone where we can explain conservative electoral success while at the same … Continue reading
in search of vigor
An illness of the nerves. It reveals an underlying stress about our fears about the body. A dissociation between body and soul as mutually antagonistic with only the faintest hope of reconciliation.Hypochondria is a very old name for a malady … Continue reading
KARL POPPER & SEEING IS BELIEVING: INDUCTION,DEDUCTION and SEDUCTION
” Well, I don’t think the bridge is all that immediate, but I do think you could develop a theory of art according to which art is a method of creating responses.( Karl ) Popper once said or wrote that … Continue reading
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Tagged Alton Kelley, Andy Schwartz, Bert Sommer, Bertrand Russell, Charles Darwin, Claude Levi-Strauss, David Gahr, David Hume, Edward Zerin, Ernst Gombrich, Francis Bacon, George Soros, Gregory Burke, Harvey Pekar, Henry Maine, James Frazier, Joachim Zelter, John Callahan, Joseph Campbell, Karl Marx, Karl Popper, Karl Rove, Mauro Chiappa, Max Weber, Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, Paul Levinson, Raymond Firth, Robert Anton Wilson, Robin Fox, Roger Sandall, Sigmund Freud, Stanley ''Mouse'' Miller, The Beatles, The Grateful Dead
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