SPHERE OF INEFFICACY

“Keep your eye on your inner world and keep away from ads, idiots and movie stars.” —Surrealist Dorothea Tanning This is a Disinformation Age take on the Flammarion Engraving, an illustration commissioned for… Continue reading →

MAN UNKIND

 “Man’s being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half… Continue reading →

THE LAST MANAGER

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” — Frank Herbert, Dune We… Continue reading →

SHAKEN OR STIRRED

“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the… Continue reading →

HEROICS AND VILLAINY

I was thinking a couple of days ago, writing as I thought, about why I don’t like to watch superhero movies or TV shows. They are entertaining spectacles that pass the time effortlessly.… Continue reading →

CAREERING

“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment … all one would have to do would be to make him do work… Continue reading →

INSTINCT AND ALGORITHM

“Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That… Continue reading →

SELF-ISH

(Or, yes we are that, but it’s not so simple)  SOMETIMES AN IDEA becomes visual from the verbal: an image emerges from hastily scribbled English in illegible cursive on the pages of my… Continue reading →

THE NOT OK CORRAL

THERE ARE SOME ODD SIDES TAKEN these hyper-partisan days. Look at the folk backing Hair Drumpf. It’s a logic defying alliance of “conservative” establishment elites who are getting what they want with him… Continue reading →

WHAT ART ISN’T, PART I

Yes, this is late in the game. I ignored “Comedian” (the banana/duct tape thing) as long as I could. First, its “creator” Maurizio Cattelan, IMO is a funny artist. Websearch him for yourself.… Continue reading →