You are a law-abiding citizen and a lover of art. You happen to be in a bar in Rome one night in 1506, where you witness a drunken, brawling Caravaggio kill an adversary. The day before, you had visited Caravaggio’s studio. You knew of two of his completed masterpieces, which you admire greatly. And in […]
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Part I of “From Modern to Postmodern Art and Beyond” focused on Modernism’s brutalism, reductionism, and conceptualism — and philosophy’s contributions from Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. “By the beginning of the twentieth century, the nineteenth-century intellectual world’s sense of disquiet had become a full-blown anxiety. The artists responded, exploring in their works the implications of
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This lecture was given in New York at the Foundation for the Advancement of Art’s conference. ‘For a long time critics of modern and postmodern art have relied on the “Isn’t that disgusting” strategy. By that I mean the strategy of pointing out that given works of art are ugly, trivial, or in bad taste,
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From the left environmentalists, we get the voluntary human extinction movement. From the religious right, we get the involuntarily human death movement. Left: Right: The two are superficial enemies culturally, yet both are anti-humanist philosophically. For human beings, life is the standard of value; and for healthy humans, life is good. True lovers of humanity
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On November 17, K. Mikey M and I will be presenting an open-to-the-public seminar: “Courage, perseverance, and embracing risk are key to innovation and entrepreneurial success. But where do those traits come from? We’re all works in progress, and this session focuses on how we cultivate the entrepreneurial mind-set and action-set in ourselves.” Hosted by the
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Today I’ll be recording a three-way conversation with Engineering Politics and Return to Reason on this topic: Fear, Paternalism, and Rousseau’s Return: A Conversation with Dr. Stephen Hicks The conversation will be recorded and posted soon on CEE Video Channel at YouTube and other platforms.
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Pleased with this result: The audiobook of Nietzsche and the Nazis crossed the two million mark. Nietzsche and the Nazis started as a documentary project that was picked up by Netflix for a few years. I then turned the script into a book, which was first published in English followed by several foreign-language translations and
Very cool: My first 2-million-views video at YouTube Read More »
From a private correspondence: Quite frankly the “elite schools” are producing a raft of useless employees. These graduates come from an environment where dissent and opposing views are not only crushed, the person who expresses them becomes a pariah. I serve on the board of directors of an executive recruiting firm with a 40-year history.
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