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Tag Archives: Descartes
Before and After Science
Descartes: Here are clips from the film I had wanted to show on Tuesday, a cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, directed in the style of the great Venetian colorist painters. The book in the age of Galileo, a last … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Eno, Descartes, Galileo, Italo Calvino, Peter Greenaway, Shakespeare
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Cultural Memory in The Present – Augustine and Trauma
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
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Tagged Caroline Walker Bynum, Descartes, Freud, Husserl, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Marcel Proust, St. Augustine
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/Cloud/ – Conceptualizing Accumulation
Descartes argues that we know that our bodies exist because something must be causing our impressions of them–i.e., we aren’t simply dreaming but perceived reality is actually real. Spinoza, however, disagrees. He argues instead that bodies do not affect the … Continue reading
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Tagged Accumulation, Catastrophe, Cloud, Deleuze, Descartes, Dreaming, Spinoza
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Western Highway – Anti-Art and The Mundane
In “Art and Objecthood” (1967), Michael Fried argues that if we stick to the old high standard of Art which has prevailed since the early Renaissance and the rise of Humanism, then Minimalism does not even qualify as Art. Rather, … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Caro, Carl Andre, Descartes, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Noland, Matthias Grunewald, Michael Fried, Minimalism, Robert Morris, Rubens, Steve Reich, Tony Smith
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