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Tag Archives: Jean-Francois Lyotard
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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Transduction and Individuation
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. –Augustine of Hippo Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending Staircase No. 2 (1912) It is the ultimate task of … Continue reading
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“What is at stake in artistic language today is experimentation. And to experiment means, in a way, to be alone, to be celibate. But, on the other hand, it also means that if the artifact produced is really strong, it … Continue reading
Nonsense
How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect by Benedict Carey The New York Times October 5, 2009 In addition to assorted bad breaks and pleasant surprises, opportunities and insults, life serves up the occasional pink unicorn. The three-dollar bill; the nun with … Continue reading
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Tagged Jean-Francois Lyotard, Sigmund Freud, Soren Kierkegaard
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Taking Us Beyond our Threshold of Comfort and Zone of Familiar Experience
Leo Steinberg does a superlative job of addressing the feeling of discomfort associated with the experience of the new – in particular with relation to the new in artistic creations. Now, I’m fully aware that not everyone in the class … Continue reading
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Tagged Enlightenment, Jasper Johns, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Leo Steinberg, Picasso
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