Tag Archives: St. Augustine

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 →

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Transduction and Individuation

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

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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Teenage Wasteland

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

Today I’m listening to Augustine on Librivox, with the music below, by Stuart Dempster and Pauline Oliveros, coming out of the same set of speakers. It’s actually quite a powerful experience. If you haven’t yet purchased the book, or even … Continue reading →

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The Mouth before The Voice: Food, Fantasies, The Mother

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

Here’s a book review I wrote just this morning. Tangential though it may seem to our concerns, I hope it will help at least a few of you in your reading of Augustine. * * * It is wearisome to … Continue reading →

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YOB at Club Vegas – July 4th, 2011

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

“my father moved through dooms of love” –e. e. cummings YOB Father ~ Celebrating Independence at Club Vegas Most artists who have nothing to prove, be they painters, writers or musicians, will have achieved this privilege of supreme indifference after … Continue reading →

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