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Tag Archives: Baruch Spinoza
the chance swerve: visions of madness
One curious statement about Lucretius appears, not in any contemporary or near-contemporary writer, but in the Christian chronicle of Saint-Jerome: that he was driven mad by a love philter administered by his wife, wrote his famous poem, The Nature of … Continue reading →
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Tagged alain de botton, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Baruch Spinoza, Christopher Hitchens, Epicurean logic, Epicurus, Harold Bloom, Lucretius, Lucretius The Nature of Things, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pierre Bonnard, Saint Jerome, Saint jerome and Lucretius, Theodor Adorno
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long hot summer: praises of follies
Divorce. But who gets custody? … In the summer of 1520 a papal bull declared Luther a heretic, giving him sixty days to recant or be excommunicated. Luther’s answer was to burn the papal bull, and the canon law with … Continue reading →
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Tagged Baruch Spinoza, Desiderius Erasmus, Hans Holbein the younger, Luther and Zwingli, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Martin Luther, Peter F. Wiener, Ray Caesar, Ray Caesar art, Robert P. Erickson, Voltaire The Enlightenment, William L. Shirer
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guns or butter
If we eat iron it will make us strong. Political satire of the most biting. But satire by nature accepts and is somewhat complicit in the forces that brought what is being critiqued to the fore. The Dadaism of which … Continue reading →
hilltops to the sea
The government implies the settlers relationship to the land exists only in a nominal sense, a legal and technical sense grounded in international law, and the larger sense of the international community and its administrative apparatus. A nominal sense for … Continue reading →
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Tagged Amona expulsion, aryeh eldad, Baruch Spinoza, Daniella Weiss, Illegal settlers Judea and Samaria, John Stuart Mill, John Stuart Mill On Liberty, Judea and Samaria Jews, Louise Bourgeois, Migron expulsion, prime minister olmert, Robert Mapplethorpe, Voltaire
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just before the dross
The Golden for gthe Dutch turned to dross. Jan de Witt and his brother met an inglorious end: Cornelius was thrown down the stairs of his prsion room and beaten with clubs and stabbed with pikes. Jan was beaten and … Continue reading →
tattoo you: the girl from Oonalaska
A kind of proximity to nature, the spirit world, the absence of boundaries where the human and the animal engaged one another in various guises of transference and inhabiting the physical body. Combinations of profound science fiction with ancient pagan … Continue reading →
relating to the THIRD
Relating to the other. It sounds like a great idea. We are depersonalized and the concept of the face to face as opposed to human relationships seen through attempts to conceptualize the totality of being has a certain intuitive appeal … Continue reading →
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Tagged August Sander, Baruch Spinoza, Carolee Schneemann, Christopher Hitchens, emmanuel levinas, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Harold Bloom, irina ionesco, joel-peter witkin, Nicolas Poussin, schelling, william gedney, zizek
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hitchens guide to the galaxy
To many, he might not be missed, but he left few indifferent. A collision of atheism out of the academy and into the real world. He might have done for atheism what Marcel Duchamp did for art, except in reverse: … Continue reading →
two faced value
Threatening complacency and self-satisfaction. Wallowing in the glory of inertia. Taking a pass on disturbing entrenched assumptions. By extension, not resisting to conformity means a negation of what is regarded as the uncannily human, meaning one ventures onto the slippery … Continue reading →
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Tagged Baruch Spinoza, Camille Pissarro, Charles Baudelaire, Clement Greenberg, Dwight MacDonald, Eduard Hanslick, Gustave Courbet, hanslick, henri Bergson, Ilya Repin, Pablo Picasso, Roland Barthes, Umberto Eco, Walter Benjamin
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and the hunchback gets the girl
This symbol of the lower realm of thought. The central quality, deformity, forcing and unremitting gaze on the earth, on nature, on material, on what we mainly regard as the malevolent and dangerous. The wild, untamed. The deformity of the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Baruch Spinoza, carroll beckwith, Carson McCullers, cornelis pietersz, Franz Kafka, henry william bunbury, michael dunn, Slavoj Zizek, stanley sheridan knowles, Tod Browning Freaks 1932, Victor Hugo, Walter Benjamin
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