Tag Archives: David Hume

nihilism : brave new world

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Dave

Seduced. The abolition of logic and its replacement by spontaneity. The will to nothing. No permit requited. The strange guest, nihilism, at the door. Somehow the grain of the new, a weird perversion of creationism which combines the anxiety of … Continue reading →

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striving to please: the second tear

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Dave

It always strives to please. Pleasing and self-congatulating as a ready-made. Kitsch. The inevitable feature of an art in which too much money and desire is chasing too little taste and knowledge. If Kitsch is like the common cold, impossible … Continue reading →

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london calling : crumb’s boswell journal

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Dave

Adult sexual obsession. A madness that is disquietingly normal. The madness of the ordinary.The kind of torment that completes itself in sexual obsession. There is something uncanny in Robert Crumb’s caricatures of James Boswell, something that connects bad and bawdy … Continue reading →

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assisted art

Posted on November 19, 2011 by Dave

It’s definitely low-brow. It does conjure up images of super-heroes. Not surprisingly, such controversial figures like “Dr. Death” tend to generate a fetish excitement. Jack Kevorkian’s defense that “acts by sheer common sense are not crimes,” posited a view of … Continue reading →

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closing the sacredness gap

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Dave

There is a conjunction, a point of inflection between morality and emotion that translates itself into the political sphere in an almost predictable yet unsettling fashion. Its a zone where we can explain conservative electoral success while at the same … Continue reading →

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in search of vigor

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Dave

An illness of the nerves. It reveals an underlying stress about our fears about the body. A dissociation between body and soul as mutually antagonistic with only the faintest hope of reconciliation.Hypochondria is a very old name for a malady … Continue reading →

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HAGGIS & HIGHLANDERS: POETS and PLOWMEN

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Dave

…”Early on, James ( Boswell ) had served notice that he was not cut out to follow in his father’s strait-laced footsteps. Scots are well known for being torn between dour conformity and impetuous rebelliousness, a contradiction emphatically personified by … Continue reading →

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THE INVISIBLE HAND:Who is the Third Who Walks Always Beside You?

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Dave

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives … Continue reading →

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ADAM SMITH & PONZI NATION: WEALTH OF RATIONS

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Dave

Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776 – not as a textbook, but as a polemical cannon aimed at governments that were subsidizing and protecting their merchants, their farmers, their manufacturers, against “unfair” competition, at home or from … Continue reading →

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KARL POPPER & SEEING IS BELIEVING: INDUCTION,DEDUCTION and SEDUCTION

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Dave

” Well, I don’t think the bridge is all that immediate, but I do think you could develop a theory of art according to which art is a method of creating responses.( Karl ) Popper once said or wrote that … Continue reading →