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enlightenment by design: build a better world?

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Dave

The Enlightenment. This is our tradition. Our world view. The liberal, rational, humanitarian way of thought that have persisted since Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, the French Revolution and had earlier seeds in the likes of Spinoza, among others. It … Continue reading →

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those were the days

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Dave

In The End of Art, Donald Kuspit argues that art is over because it has lost its aesthetic import. Art has been replaced by ‘postart’, a term invented by Alan Kaprow, as a new visual category that elevates the banal … Continue reading →

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“I pledge allegiance…”

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Dave

Are we Rome in decline, a dying society? One may doubt that we have reached that point of dissolution, where in the phrase of Giovanni Battista Vico men “finally go mad and waste their substance.” One may doubt the ultimately … Continue reading →