This year, I worked more, Edgar posted a bit more often, and we have difficulty sorting out the popularity of newer pieces. It’s a bit of a difficult task, sorting the old from the new. So consider this a bit of a longer-term retrospective.
Read MoreThere’s something there – something in the use of representational art works and artists in a genre virtually defined by the unrepresentable quality of its subjects – but where are we?
Read Morethere are many films out there about the power of cinema, the magic of the movies. It’s a cliché, and one that people in the film industry repeat often enough to make it sound as if they are trying to convince us. Nope is not that kind of film, despite what it might seem
Read MoreIf the Animal condition is to be in concert with one’s environment and for one’s needs to self-annihilate upon contact with it due to their fulfillment, the snob adopts the position of denying the environment and striving purposelessly against it.
Read MoreThis led to a great deal of discussion, in that uniquely useless way you find on social media, about political strategy. As usual, the discussion shrank from attacking the right to punching left – specifically, the anti-electoral left. The thought was that the right wing got here through voting, so surely the problem was that there were people on the left who thought that voting was a bad idea. This, of course, betrays almost as bad a grasp of history as the court did when they argued that abortion had no roots in the traditions of the United States.
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