Philosophiren, says Novalis, ist dephlegmatisiren vivificiren. The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit is to rouse, to startle it into sharp and eager observation. ...
The question of art is not a question of spontaneous feelings. It is not a question of emotionality, but of the knowledge of how to make things, how to realise something consciously. Everything functi...
I think I took Blog Action Day 2008 message really close to heart this year – for I decided, Los Cuadernos being an arts blog, to research the representation of poverty in art. The research, which was...
I wrote The Word in 2006, and then it took two years and a Dublin Heidegger student to write a review of it. Paul Ennis is writing a Ph.D. thesis on Heidegger, “mostly on topological concerns, b...
…O reader! As these lines are written by the dim light of a wall lamp, don’t wish the wrath of gods to befall the author thereof for her erratic notes, – but take it as a good indica...
The Thames nocturne of blue and gold Changed to a Harmony in grey: A barge with ochre-coloured hay Dropped from the wharf: and chill and cold The yellow fog came creeping down The bridges, till the ho...
“Time will say nothing, but I told you so/ Time only knows the price we have to pay“, soberly reflected Wystan Hugh Auden in his well-known poem. Diane Arbus, when working on a feature for...
We are surely used to the baby Jesus being painted as a healthy kid with big cheeks. He can be suckling on his mother’s breast, or playing with John the Baptist, or otherwise having good time on...
Judge Jeffereys’ Noose, originally uploaded by Still The Oldie. This is the site called “Judge Jeffereys’ Noose” by the old Thames tavern “The Prospect of Whitby”, ...
As if to once again ascertain the genius of Leonardo da Vinci, here is one of his Prophecies: Of the selling of Paradise: “A countless multitude will sell publicly and without hindrance things o...