NO VACANCY

“Dragons of the prime, / That tare each other in their slime” —Alfred Tennyson This is an overview of the world of USA socio-economic politics. It’s an overt statement of the way things… Continue reading →

ALIENATED ABDUCTION!

“Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of the established reality principle” —Controversial 20th-century philosopher Herbert… Continue reading →

THRICE VICED

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap. —poet Juvenal Rising above a storm-tossed sea of hands and symbolic ephemerals are three columns, one each of the three Greek… Continue reading →

HIDDEN MIDDEN

“Why then you’re as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust ‘reality’ and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.” ―… Continue reading →

I WAS FRAMED!

“Enframing means the gathering together of that setting-upon which sets upon man, i.e., challenges him forth, to reveal the real, in the mode of ordering, as standing-reserve. Enframing means that way of revealing… Continue reading →

ANTHROPOCENE COLLAPSE

“Look, it’s his show. If he wants to be hard to kill, let him.” —Cartoon character Boris Badenov The star of this snapshot of a cinematic set piece is, of course, a Trumpasuraurus… Continue reading →

DIGITAL GRAFFITI

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” —Oscar Wilde Commuters/consumers are dazzled by a sea of billboards above them in an… Continue reading →

HAVE OR HAVE NOT

“The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.” ― Saki/Hector Hugh Munro This one is not about the classic movie or the class struggle.… Continue reading →

DIVIDED BY PIE

“If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.” — Simone de Beauvoir  This one is about work, love, and friendship rather than my oft-expressed concern for “art,… Continue reading →

IDEA NOT FIXED

“…Thy body permanent, / The body lurking there within thy body, / The only purport of the form thou art, the real I myself, / An image, an eidólon…” —Walt Whitman A stereotypical… Continue reading →