Art is Dead (again); or, The coward within Art is momentarily resurrected, then dies one of its ten thousand deaths...
Art is Dead. Long live Art! Photo: Flickr/Peter Bihr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 . I believe that my work must be guided by a phi…
Essay Notes: "Is the Russian Revolution a Bourgeois Revolution? A Keen Analysis of the Situation in Soviet Russia" by Karl Radek
Members of the bourgeois in Petrograd in 1919 in the line to compulsory labour services (1919) via Wikimedia . Is the R…
Conquering the Universe One Peace at a Time, or: Pursuing the Cultured, Prosperous, Stoic Life
Peace and Prosperity , 1896. Mural by Elihu Vedder at Library of Congress. Photo by Carol Highsmith . In a recent post …
Defending the Enlightenment with the Knowledge Illusion: Or, Why our desire for parsimony ensures we know diddly
What do we know? Photo by Linda Tanner CC BY 2.0 There are many statements about new knowledge and how, if you cannot…
George Saunders On Writing: Author of New York Times best seller tells all
Lincoln Memorial. Photo by Jeff Kubina [ CC BY-SA 2.0 ] At the time of writing, George Saunders ' novel Lincoln in …
Derrida versus the rationalists, and why I might be more postmodern than I thought
Jackson Pollock's Autumn Rhythm (Number 30). Photograph by Matthew Mendoza / CC-BY-SA 2.0 When Jackson Pollock ad…
Bertrand Russell's "In Praise of Idleness": Amate dolce far niente? (Do you love doing nothing?), and why you find it hard to do
Dolce far Niente (The Sweetness of Doing Nothing) by John William Godward , 1904 ( Public Domain ) Essay Notes: "I…
Essay Notes: "Regulation and Time: Temporal patterns in regulatory development" by Joshua Newman and Michael Howlett
Photo: geralt / CC0 Newman, J. and Howlett, M. (2014). Regulation and time: temporal patterns in regulatory developm…