Tag Archives: Galileo

Before and After Science

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

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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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 →

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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 →

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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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Spending One’s Life in The Pursuit of Spectacular Failure

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

Mocking monumental genius? Certainly. But why claim that Martin Kippernberger was specifically mocking Galileo? Why would anybody want to mock, amongst other geniuses, Galileo, or his huge tighty-whities? Is that alright to do? I mean, has anyone ever mocked Galileo … Continue reading →

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