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Showing posts with label idealism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label idealism. Show all posts
16 Apr 2022

Chrysopoeia 2: Volpone (He's the Fox - the Fox with the Golden Brush)

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Aubrey Beardsley:   Volpone Adoring His Treasures (1898)   Good morning to the day; and next, my gold:  Open the shrine, that I may see my ...
28 Mar 2021

I Would Like to Know the Stars Again: Reflections on Astronomy and Astrology in the Work of D. H. Lawrence

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"I would like to know the stars again ... I would like to be able to put my ego into the sun,  and my personality into the moon, and my...
24 Mar 2021

Nietzsche Contra Olaf Stapledon on the Death of Man

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The nihilist and the transcendental idealist     Recently, I started exploring the speculative writings of British philosopher and sci-fi au...
27 Mar 2019

He That Aches With Amorous Love: Lawrence's Critique of Walt Whitman's Idealism

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Lawrence's essay on Whitman in his Studies in Classic American Literature  (1923) is more piss-take than critical analysis. Lawr...
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14 Nov 2018

Lawrentian Reflections on the Birth of Baby Mia

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Baby Mia (born 12 Nov 2018) Following my Nietzschean Reflections on the Birth of Baby Mia , I was informed by a concerned correspo...
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1 Sept 2018

Reflections on the Georgia Guidestones

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Georgia Guidestones   Photo by Gina Eric (2014) I. The Georgia Guidestones  is, arguably, the world's ugliest monument. ...
7 Aug 2018

Lose This Skin: Thoughts on Theodore Roethke's Epidermal Macabre

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Juan de Valverde de Hamusco:  La anatomia del corpo humano (1556) According to D. H. Lawrence, Whitman was the great Amer...
29 Apr 2018

On the Politics of the Female Nipple

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Bella Hadid shows how to free the nipple in style Photo: Getty Images for Dior (2017) I. It's true that both men and wome...
17 Apr 2018

On the Romantic Conception of Childhood

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Suffer little children and forbid them not -  for theirs is the  Kingdom of Heaven I. If there's one child in modern phil...
20 Nov 2017

Becoming-Other (Part 1): The Case of Boglarka Balogh

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Seven types of digital blackface produced by Boglarka Balogh  (with the assistance of graphic artist Csaba Szábó) boredpanda.com ...
25 Mar 2017

Sailing to Byzantium (Notes on Yeats and the Singularity)

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William Butler Yeats by Tricia Danby deviantart.com Written in 1926, when Yeats was 61 and starting to feel his age, the poem ...
6 Nov 2016

On Ecosexuality

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Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle Here Come the Ecosexuals For those of you who don't know, Elizabeth Stephens is an inte...