Monthly Archives: June 2012

Canon and Contingency

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

I do think that a great many of the supposed great men were indeed great, or that at least their books were. But I realize that their greatness was a function of a host of factors which recent scholarship has … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Dying To Know – “The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice.”

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

It’s worth considering that T. S. Eliot’s task, in “Tradition and The Individual Talent,” is nothing less than an attempt to transfer epistemology, the conditions of the possibility of objective (scientific) knowledge, as they were understood in the 19th century, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Against Textbooks – Science as Literature

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

one of the most influential works of literary criticism and cultural history of the last quarter century Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, arguably the most important book written in English in the nineteenth century, transformed the way we … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

From “Pasted-Paper Revolution” to “Collage”

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

The key to understanding Greenberg’s argument about cubism and collage is to center on one or two fundamental concepts – medium specificity and dialectical development. By medium specificity we mean that each artistic medium, the physical material out of which … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

“et tibi dabo claves regni caelorum”

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

~ “What use is a golden key if it cannot unlock what we desire, and what is wrong with a wooden key if it can?” –Peter Abelard, Sic et Non Peter Abelard “Planctus David”

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Cervical Cortex – Lara Candland

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

• oravit Iona ad Dominum Deum suum de utero piscis • The Stuttgart Psalter, an illuminated Carolingian manuscript Place of origin: Saint-Germain-des-Prés Date of manuscript : around 830 CE Signature : Cod. bibl. 23 • moby dick: chapter lxxv abridged• … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

The Irresistable Force

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

Ludwig van Beethoven “Piano Concerto #5 (The Emperor)” The glory mentioned in the Stephen Crane poem you posted is very much at the heart of Clausewitz‘s theory of war. This is something which, according to this mode of thought, can … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Cultural Memory in The Present – Augustine and Trauma

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

From Stanford University Press: This remarkable posthumous work by one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century engages Augustine’s Confessions, one of the major canonical works of world literature and the very paradigm of autobiography as a definable genre … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Roxane Gay, of [PANK]: Our Submissions Need Not Be Guided

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

A retweet from HTMLGIANT February 25th, 2010 UNSAID 4 has been discussed here before and I’m going to discuss it again. The magazine is fairly new to me and after reading all the glowing reviews of the fourth issue, in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Leave a comment

A Materialist Reading of High-Modernist Spirituality

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

A great deal of purism is the translation of an extreme solicitude, an anxiousness as to the fate of art, a concern for its identity. We must respect this. When the purist insists upon excluding “literature” and subject matter from … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment