2005.09.30 11:22
Dark Ages
The notion of it being OK to explain the "Dark Ages" (i.e., several centuries of just European history) in just one sentence, and then to think that that sentence explains it all is a big problem itself. Who all is really in the dark?
Personally, and as far as the U.S. constitution is concerned, I believe the separation of church and state to the extreme is what the law here should really be about. Get rid of that swearing on the Bible for a start. The fact is that swearing on the Bible has never stopped anyone from lying.
2005.09.30 11:34
Dark Ages
Serious question:
Does anyone in the U.S. ever take an oath of office or swear to tell the truth with one hand raised and the other hand on the U.S. Constitution?
2005.09.30 17:16
Dark Ages
How about separation of 'higher being' and state?
As far as the U.S. is concerned, the 'intelligent design' that should be taught is the U.S. Constitution, as in the origin/creation of the nation.
2005.10.01 12:29
HATE
Modern art always "projects itself into a twilight zone where no values are fixed, he [Leo Steinberg] said. "It is always born in anxiety." Not only that, he said, it is the function of really valuable new Modern art to "transmit this anxiety to the spectator," so that when he looks at it, he is thrown into "a genuine existential predicament." This is basically Greenberg's line, of course--"all profoundly original art looks ugly at first"--but Steinberg made the feeling seem deeper (and a bit more refined). The clincher was Steinberg's own confession of how he had first disliked [Jasper] Johns's work. He had resisted it. He had fought to cling to his old values--and then realized he was wrong. This filtered down as a kind of Trubulence Theorem. If a work of art or a new style disturbed you, it was probably good work. If you hated it--it was probably great.
Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word
2005.10.01 15:41
Dark Ages
Could it be said that science via testing continually tries to figure out or at least interpret the design of things?
Does intelligent design ever suggest that "the design" itself is the higher intelligence?
2005.10.03 15:41
Re: Jean-Pierre Gauthier Unbekannt
Did anyone do anything special yesterday the 37th anniversary of Marcel Duchamp's death? You think anyone will bid on the sheet of Duchamp news clippings souvenir from the 1973 Duchamp exhibition that will be up for auction at eBay soon? And how about Rimanelli in "Hate Speech" "Coming upon a quondam friend of colleague..." Does Rimanelli have experience himself when it comes to coming upon a quondam friend or colleague? I'd hate to think not. Anyone know what 2005 book is partially dedicated '4. my quondam friends'? Hint: what do QBVS and VSBA have in common? So the question so the answer maybe?
Modern art always "projects itself into a twilight zone where no values are fixed," he [Leo Steinberg] said. "It is always born in anxiety." Not only that, he said, it is the function of really valuable new Modern art to "transmit this anxiety to the spectator," so that when he looks at it, he is thrown into "a genuine existential predicament." This is basically Greenberg's line, of course—"all profoundly original art looks ugly at first"—but Steinberg made the feeling seem deeper (and a bit more refined). The clincher was Steinberg's own confession of how he had first disliked [Jasper] Johns's work. He had resisted it. He had fought to cling to his old values—and then realized he was wrong. This filtered down as a kind of Turbulence Theorem. If a work of art or a new style disturbed you, it was probably good work. If you hated it—it was probably great.
—Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word
I reread all of The Painted Word in the wee hours of 1 October 2005. Does Duchamp rest in peace flat on his back?
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