Tag Archives: Immanuel Kant

No! Art: confrontations on betrayal

It was at the expense of good manners.Its an alternate method to engage oneself with memory. The burbling graphic images resurfaced later in etchings, paintings and collages like blood clots moving through hardened arteries. Alternating between the jarring and the … Continue reading

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heine sight is everything

The personification of a straight line. Those who philosophize everything delicious out of life. Does the ancient land of dreams still exist? Heine did not believe that it would so soon come to pass; there were too many black ravens … Continue reading

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LIKE CATCHING FALLING KNIVES

…The first thing that you found about the dead was that, hit badly enough, they died like animals. Some quickly from a little wound you would not think would kill a rabbit. They died from little wounds as rabbits die … Continue reading

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“CULTURAL ACUPUNCTURE” : APPROPRIATION & HIPSTER REBELLION

Pick your protest.Is this wave of political activism, from Black Bloc to Tea Party different from past manifestations? Every era has unique twists, but they are each not as different as you may think.  This time it’s different?… Natalie Zemon … Continue reading

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“REASONABLE CREATURES”:HOW DID THAT RUMOR GET STARTED?

“While genius is a rare gift, according to most theorists the pool of human beings from which genius emerges includes only men. Rousseau, Kant, and Schopenhauer all declared that women possess characters and mentalities too weak to produce genius. This … Continue reading

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SEMIOTICALLY SPEAKING:A Determined Lack of PURPOSE

“To Roland Barthes, the gap in meaning at the heart of the aesthetic experience opened up the possibility of an orgasmic explosion of the parameters of the self, a vertiginous liberation into the joys of an abyss outside of even … Continue reading

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AESTHETICS OF APPETITE:SHE PLUCK'D, SHE EAT

IIts the ontology of the appetite. Food as a metaphysical concept. And its consumption to the point of gluttony as an aesthetic. It is an emotionally charged symbol that dates from the Biblical Genesis and humanity’s fall from grace. Heck, … Continue reading

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MALICE and the MISSISSIPPI

”For a time Europeans had invented an AMERICA peopled by noble savages, men uncorrupted by civilization; as Montaigne wrote, quoting Seneca, they were “fresh from the gods”. But Europe has never stopped reinventing the New World. The eighteenth-century debate took … Continue reading

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MOZARTIANS AND THE SECRET OF THEIR ALLOY

It cannot be denied that the verbal arts, the drama, the novel and a great part of poetry have always fed on conflict, and that they have reached their greatest heights when the conflict was unresolvable except by a tragic … Continue reading

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