Tag Archives: Terry Eagleton

don’t mess with the holy fool

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Dave

Regarded as a kind of holy fool who could stretch time and space while spitting on Isaac Newton’s cape and could scare off Voltaire with flashing visions of nihilistic revelry,a positive nihilism, a kind of messianic negation of the mundane … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alan moore, Albert Einstein, Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Potter, Billy Bragg, Donald Trump, G.K. Chesterton, jim jarmusch, john michell, John Milton Paradise Lost, mike goode, Slavoj Zizek, Terry Eagleton, todd mcfarlaine, W.B. Yeats, William Blake | Leave a comment

Phantasmagoria: be here now

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Dave

Very few paintings in the history of art have so puzzled viewers as Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. Even in the basking glory of post modernist permissiveness, its meaning is neither clear nor compelling, only murky. In centuries … Continue reading →