“powerfully sublime manipulations of language” link to a review of Nick Tosches’s In the Hand of Dante – because I want more The dialectical mutations of each phase of the attacks and their aftermath came so rapidly that every successive generation lasted half as long as its predecessor. Mourning by the end of the day, dirty jokes by the end of the week. Newspaper headlines contracted from banner size before the end
Jaron Lanier & criticality, ii – more of the same We have economic fear combined with everybody joined together on these instant twitchy social networks which are designed to create mass action. – Jaron Lanier quoted here A pogrom is carried out by a “crowd,” the true horrific embodiment of the purported “wisdom of the crowd.” You could say it made
Jaron Lanier & criticality March 11 2007 I wrote a post critical of Jaron Lanier, here. It is then with some interest I note what some are calling his apostasy, there.
Year of the Snake “We are so absorbed by the lightness and vitality of Goya’s line that the beauty of the spectacle makes us forget to condemn the war it represents.” – Jean Genet, quoted in “The Dualist- Painting, Francis Bacon, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany,” David Cohen, Art in America, Jan., 1997. “I