Tag Archives: Aristotle

disney punch: utopia as patriarchy?

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Art

The common features of human life have been around a long a long time. Around the block many, many times. Ever since humankind began to make a human world for its habitation, that world has been shared and divided along … Continue reading →

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theatre of the union: logos, pathos & a dog called sputnik

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Dave

Do we call the Obama speech, his state of the union address, a seizing of the Sputnik moment. We have had Minsky moments, but a Sputnik moment? Or is this just another example of those pointy headed white intellectuals lecturing … Continue reading →

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PRIVATE LANGUAGE and SACRED CONVERSATIONS

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Dave

Encounters with robbers in the desert…No need for the cross of salvation?…..An esoteric language, an Aristolean network, an ambiguity, or “pentimenti”–changes of mind— of additional, multiple and complex narratives under the surface….. The mystery intrigues and continues to prevail…. The … Continue reading →

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GUNSMOKE BONANZA: BALLOT BOX AT HIGH NOON

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Dave

What are westerns all about? As the gunsmoke clears from the main streets of those frontier towns, there is always a persistent political theme. … Where is the best place to hide a leaf? asked G. K. Chesterton’s fictional detective, … Continue reading →

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MAKING OF A HERETIC: The Superfluous Trinity

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Dave

Heretics ‘R Us. For eight years Church authorities searched for a reson not to burn the quarrelsome, opinionated, and altogether brilliant troublemaker. In the end he left them no choice… …The Renaissance, as an age of transition, was not conducive … Continue reading →

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WRETCHED DESIRES: “WEEP FOR THE SAVIOR NOT THE SEDUCER”

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Dave

Peter Abelard. An impudent nuisance to his contemporaries, a romantic figment later, and perhaps our first free man. “By doubting, we come to inquire and by inquiry we arrive at truth”. The church has never quite understood Abelard to the … Continue reading →

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THE ROUTING OF SAN ROMANO:PERSPECTIVE ON “RESTORING HONOR”

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Dave

“Of course, there are significant differences between the two writers: Klein imagines that the problem with the world is too much focus on capitalism at the expense of progressive values and social welfare. Beck, on the other hand, loves capitalism, … Continue reading →

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BEAUTY & THE BEAST DEPENDING ON THE PHYSIQUE

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Dave

”Every human face is a hieroglyph which can be deciphered, indeed whose key we bear ready-made within us” ( Schopenhauer ) From the ancients onward, Europeans in particular have puzzled over the face, devising methods for interpreting its secret language. … Continue reading →

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AT THE ZOO

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Dave

Someone told me It’s all happening at the zoo. I do believe it, I do believe it’s true. Mmmmm. Mmmmm. Whoooa. Mmmmm. The monkeys stand for honesty, Giraffes are insincere, And the elephants are kindly but They’re dumb. Orangutans are … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Aristotle, Cesare Lombroso, Charles Darwin, Charles Le Brun, George Orwell, George Orwell Animal Farm, Giovanni Battista della Porta, Great Chain of Being, Hall of Mirrors, J.J. Granville, Jean Racine, Louis XIV, Louise de La Valliere, Nicolas Poussin, Petrus Camper, Pierre Corneille, Seigneur Colbert, Sigmund Freud, Thierry Poncelet | 2 Comments

Crocodile Hunting in Berlin

Posted on November 21, 2009 by Dave

Until Death Do Us Part…But until then there is a lot of road to haul. How does one explain a condition that has been genetically stamped into humanity since the origins of the oral tradition and the hieroglyphic scrawling of … Continue reading →