(Today’s blog post is by a guest philosopher, Tim Hawken, who lives in Western Australia and is the author of two novels, ‘I Am Satan
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1. This looks to be pretty special:
… Read the restThe Tenant’s Association of the Chelsea Hotel presents a rare screening of Andy Warhol’s 1966 masterpiece, Chelsea Girls, introduced by poet and Warhol superstar Rene Ricard.
Rene Ricard is one of the few surviving members of the cast, and was a close friend
… Read the rest“On Sunday, April 27, 1913, in her Yonkers, New York, home, sixty-seven-year-old Jennie Hintz tried a new way of practicing her piety. She did not need the assistance of clergy, nor did she need to go to church, as she had given up her faith almost a half century earlier.
Three quotes I like, not necessarily related in any particular way:
… Read the restWhen Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and his solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But
Here are three books I’ve recently enjoyed. I’ll cover a couple more next week as well.
The Shadow of What We Were by Luis Sepulveda
Chilean novelist and activist Luis Sepulveda lived through his nation’s greatest political humiliation — the overthrow of its democratically-elected leader Salvador Allende by rightists (backed … Read the rest
The psychologist Carl Jung wrote of the collective unconscious, a source of deep common understanding and knowledge that every person seems to somehow draw from. I’ve always liked this concept, and I’ve often thought we could take this further and consider the concept of the collective self. While Jung’s collective … Read the rest
“Outside of society!” shouts Patti Smith in one of her best songs, Rock and Roll Nigger. The phrase expresses not a reality but rather only a dream for many of us. For a small few, it’s an actual choice.
I’ve never lived off the grid, but I’ve always been … Read the rest
Has anyone misplaced a renaissance? Say, a Germanic one, about two centuries old?
We all might have, according to cultural historian Peter Watson’s thick new book The German Genius: Europe’s Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century. It’s a big thesis, but the evidence is surprisingly … Read the rest
1. “Whatever you do, take care of your shoes” — Phish.
2. I don’t always finish his books, but I always get a kick out of Chuck Palahniuk. His signature novel Fight Club established him as a guy’s guy kind of writer, and he still carries an … Read the rest