aesthetics
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CMM0013–ORDER OF FLO with Joy and Rivkah
Drawing on themes from queer theory and responding to COVID-19, “Order of Flo” playfully dances along the lines of destiny at the intersection of bodily motion and mindful emotion. Melting the presentations of drag, queer bodies, and weird minds, “Order… Continue reading
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Suspended academic
Here is Prometheus bound. Continue reading
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Cagey Anarchism
More than two decades after Cage’s death, a small press called Siglio has published a definitive edition of his major long text. Starting in 1965, Cage developed a poetic form he titled a Diary and accurately described as “a mosaic… Continue reading
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The Aesthetic of the Gay Askesis
Here, Michel Foucault philosophizes in an 1981 interview. Central to his thinking in this back and forth is that being gay transcends the established laws and common customs. It is important to think with him on this. The struggle by LGBTQ for… Continue reading
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A better direction for beauty
An old ambition is peeking through: that beauty and glamour shouldn’t be divorced from wisdom. In the perfect world, the great truths wouldn’t lie locked away in depressing unreadable books or be spoken only by inarticulate and visually challenged members… Continue reading
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Art and the Alter-Modern Philosophical Network
If the Society of Control is in part about the delivery of knowledge and information through constantly modulating networks, then maybe the PBS Idea Channel gives us an inkling of how Millennials will philosophize via the interweb. Here are a… Continue reading
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Looking for art history? Search no further.
Good day and well met all of my brothers and sisters of the Ether! Those of you into art , art history, and aesthetics will really enjoy this. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has a database with… Continue reading
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Jesse Bransford / Work
Just some fabulous esoteric art works over at Jesse Bransford’s page from the I:MAGE exhibit. This space must be protected. Not from evil, but from confusion, from the distortion of the quotidian. This is not normal. Rules are being changed,… Continue reading
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Radiant Living
My good brother, Andrew J. Taggart, continues his series of meditations on Radiant Living. I highly recommend Andrew’s work. He is a diligent, insightful counselor who is committed to reinvigorating the notion of philosophy as a way of life. Related… Continue reading
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Roman Ingarden (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
An important philosopher whose work should be read by anyone who has an interest in grasping the ontology of the work of art. This is especially true of his work on music & film. Roman Ingarden (1893 – 1970) was… Continue reading
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Textimony 20120224
“Poetry is produced not by the mere caprice of pleasure but by natural necessity.” ~Benedetto Croce on the Aesthetic Philosophy of Giambatista Vico Continue reading
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