Monthly Archives: June 2011

Science and Anarchy

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

Everywhere science is enriched by unscientific methods and unscientific results, … the separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to the advancement of knowledge. If we want to understand nature, if we want to master … Continue reading →

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Cosmology as Art ~ Galileo, Latour, Gesualdo, Monteverdi

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

GALILEO: I won’t compromise my esthetic. –Bertold Brecht “Nigra sum sed formosa. Dazzled by darkness.” Optical Distortions and Magnifications. Extremes of Contour, Modeling and Texture. Intense Internal Light Source. Hyperbolic Ascents and Sudden Plunges of Consciousness and Sensation. Mannerism Chiaroscuro … Continue reading →

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Two Different Orreries: The Tychonian vs. The Copernican Model of The Cosmos

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

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Writing about The Dead vs. Writing among The Dead – Modernity and The Waste Land

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

Y: I have to ask is it right to judge a previous century against the more recent in regards to technologies available? It’s like getting critical of cavemen for not using Adobe Photoshop CS5 to do a painting. But yes, … Continue reading →

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Classical Music goes Neo-Classical – Out of the 19th and into the 20th Century

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

The vast interval separating the “out” and “in” should be self-evident. Just one comparison worth noting is the way that Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto #1 sounds as if it were written as a deliberate parody of Tchaikovsky’s very famous piano concerto. … Continue reading →

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UNSAID was High Miles Five.

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

Why is the best workout music invariably songs about how awesome drugs are? Damn, that was a good run. Thanks, Suicycles! “Question Mark” “Smiling Like A Junkie” “God Like Me” (art by Sri Whipple)

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Unsaid is broken-hearted.

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

Nam June Paik (1962)

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Tradition and the Prehistoric Talent – Not Primitivism but Stoneage Classicism

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

[The artist] must be aware that the mind of Europe–the mind of his own country–a mind which he learns in time to be much greater than his own private mind–is a mind which changes, and that this change is a … Continue reading →

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The Rule of Futility

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

Oscar Wilde Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) ~ The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or … Continue reading →

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“The English Countenance”

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

The difference is not a simple difference of degree between poets. It is something which had happened to the mind of England between the time of Donne or Lord Herbert of Cherbury and the time of Tennyson and Browning; it … Continue reading →

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