Shake your hips
Tag Archives: Steven Pinker
say look: what’s that sound?
To begin with, the Structural Linguists concern themselves only with the spoken language. The generally low esteem with which they regard writing derives in part from the statistic that only about five per cent of the of the world’s approximately … Continue reading
one that got away
Must have felt good for him to drop the f-bomb. Inside all that vague space of harmony has to be a seething mass of rage somewhere within. Buddhism has been so commodified by American pop culture, it has spawned an … Continue reading
guess whose coming to dinner?
Does our modern society indicative of a lowering of human freedom and a degradation of the environment or does our science charged culture represent an emancipation from primitive conflict and ignorance? … From an article on researching authenticity and populism. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alice Miller, August Sander, cannibalism, James Hilton, Jared Diamond, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Verelst, Lawrence H. Keeley, Lord of the Flies, margaret bourke-white, Nicholas Wade, Sigmund Freud, Steven Pinker, Thomas Hobbes, William Golding
Leave a comment
celebrity contagion :thirty two short momentos by glenn gould
The fetish object. The continuous restlessness of meaning. Unresolved tension through which the commodity is continually fetishized, de-fetishized and reproduced to look like the old; warts, scratches, scuffs and all. A reanimation that represents a highlighting of utopian longings dating … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged adam biran, Andy Warhol, arthur rubinstein, bob trenholm, Byron, clara haskill, daniel szmukler, dinu lipatti, Euro Banking Association, george e. newman, glenn gould, harry mannis, igor stravinsky, kate shapiro, kevin bazzana, Leonard Bernstein, paul bloom, paul waldie, serkin, Steven Pinker, susan buck-morss, Theodor Adorno, valerie curtis, Vladimir Horowitz, Walter Benjamin, William Wordsworth
Leave a comment
for, sooth to say,…it was no sort of life
He was one of the “new men” who rose and fell by their wits; Spencer’s work and life a reflection of the splendors and miseries of his time. “The Elizabethan conception of world-order was in its outlines medieval although it … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alexander Pope, Chris Thorns, Edmund Spenser, Hercule Francois, Hercule Francois Duc D'Alencon, Hilliard portraits, Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Norman Davies, Robert Dudley, Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, Steven Pinker
Leave a comment
Precious Life: X-fi and the double trouble effect
Life is not cheap, but it’s certainly not precious sometimes. The rules of morality are usually deduced from first principles, but there has always been a space between psychology and philosophy especially regarding the meaning of wrong. In the film … Continue reading
EFFING THIS & EFFING THAT: ART & POLITICS OF FUDDLE DUDDLE
Puritanism: as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” ( H.L. Mencken ) Fornication Under Consent of the King. For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Fuckedandfarfromhome. The F-Bomb ….”How do you people really feel about doing it? Isn’t that about … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Andres Serrano, Andrew Rohn, Buzz Bissinger, Catherine Cappellaro, Cathy Malchiodi, Country Joe MacDonald, David Dunlap, Dorothy Parker, Ed Sullivan, Geoffrey Nunberg, H.L. Mencken, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jesse Helms, Jonah Lehrer, Ken Burns, Kenneth Tynan, Lenny Bruce, Norman Mailer, Northrop Frye, Piero Manzoni, Robert Lane Green, Robert Mapplethorpe, Steve Anderson, Steve martin, Steven Pinker, Steven Saus, Tiny Tim, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Leave a comment
BEING DOES NOT = E + MC 2
Though the goal of spontaneous human combustion can also be attained by splitting atoms and achieving fission in the more social sciences. The vocabulary of art is, a priori, a language. That is, its aim is to communicate to others … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Abu-Bakarr Mansaray, African Art, Bill Poser, Cheri Cherin, Darwin, Ernest Bloch, Ernst Bloch, Ernst Simon Bloch, Eugene Delacroix, Globe and mail, Haiti, Hannah Arendt, Jane Alexander, Jean Paul Sartre, Leonard Cohen, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Malam, Mapplethorpe, Maurice Merleau Ponty, Mozart, Newton, Noam Chomsky, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Robert Mapplethorpe, Russell Smith, Sartre, Steven Pinker, Wangechi Mutu
Leave a comment
COMMENTS