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Tag Archives: Fernando Pessoa
faking the real: postures in palestine
A modern aesthetic rebellion against bourgeois existence. Its an ambiguous rhetoric, an in-between, between aesthetic and political radicalism that never commits to either; like the British promising the same dunams of land to jew and arab. As protest, it is … Continue reading
poussin: willing into the trap of fantasy
In short, Poussin’s reason got him trapped in fantasy. His striving for legibility backfired: the pious Madame du Housset , who owned the Vergilian Shepherds of Arcady, had placed it in her chapel thinking it was an altarpiece. …. Poussin … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged andrew butterfield, Arthur Schopenhauer, dr. steven adams, Fernando Pessoa, Joshua Reynolds, lucian greek writer, Martin Buber, michel passart, natalis comes, Nicolas Poussin, Rene Descartes, Spinoza, thomas jefferson monticello
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Chess a genteel game? … full-contact body and mind
Not all chess matches have had a happy, sportsmanlike end.Does chess encourage violence or discourage it? It may not be a leisure activity of refinement and erudition that many outsiders hold the image of it to be. In fact the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Aleister Crowley, Bobby Fischer, Chess, Chess boxing, Edward Lasker, Fernando Pessoa, Irving Finkel Lewis Chessmen, Judith Polgar, Lewis Chessmen, Ralph Charell, Simon Armitage, Stanley Kubrick, Thomas Rendall, Vladimir Nabokov
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