It’s not true until
it’s on screen: veritas in
cathode ray: don’t say
“I’ll CU-IRL”—there’s
no more dancer, just dance.
Despite Plato’s admonitions, we’re not a people keen on self-examination. We’re much more interested in the self-as-commodity: selling our high-concept idealizations of who we think we are to others and becoming frustrated when those we deal with don’t live up to the high-concept idealizations of who they think they are we’ve bought. So we should [...]
“Idealism is a hypothesis to account for nature by other principles than those of carpentry and chemistry”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
My father knows how to hold a wrench. Or rather, it knows how to hold him—or rather, the wrench knows, through him how to act, it’s motion back and forth about the nut becomes an analogy of [...]
The usher said, “Your music fell down, so you might want to check your place.”
My music fell down. My Napster fell down. My iTunes, my collection of old and musty vinyl. What of those songs taken to heart, symphonies poked over in digital bitstream mapping, re-productions of the rhythms of those loved pop songs infused [...]
Modernism is truly dead.
All that remains are a few doddering old men worrying about their prostates and voting for Democrats because no viable Socialist candidates exist.
The Modernists have all been replaced with advertising. I’d call this postmodern because “po-mo” is too easy, but it’s also really just 3rd or 4th generation Modernism—the Modernism that eats [...]