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TRAC panel on Odd Nerdrum’s Kitsch and Roger Scruton’s Beauty

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At the The Representational Art Conference in Ventura, California, I’ll be participating in a panel discussion on The Aesthetics of 21st Century Representational Art – (Odd Nerdrum’s Kitsch and Roger Scruton’s Beauty): Moderator: Peter Trippi, Editor, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine. Panelists: Julio Reyes, Stephen Hicks, Alan Lawson, Jan-Ove Tuv. Earlier in the conference, I’ll also […]

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Zero-sum economics? J. K. Rowling edition

7 Comments / Economics, Literature / Stephen Hicks

Here is a clear example of zero-sum thinking, this time in literature. Author Lynn Shepherd laments J. K. Rowling’s publishing another book, on the grounds that the successful writer crowds out the less successful. In Shepherd’s words: “It wasn’t just that the hype was drearily excessive, or that (by all accounts) the novel was no

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Heidegger’s “Black Notebooks” to be published in Germany

1 Comment / History of Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

And they will no doubt ignite another round of debate about Martin Heidegger’s anti-Semitism and Nazism. History professor Robert Zaretsky summarizes the evolution of the debate to date. My thoughts here.

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Upcoming California talk on “Postmodernism and Its Discontents”

2 Comments / News, Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

On March 5, I’ll be speaking at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks on “Postmodernism and Its Discontents.”

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Upcoming talk on philosophy and representational art

Kaizen 29: The Zol Cendes interview

1 Comment / Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship, News / Stephen Hicks

Entrepreneurial Software The latest issue of Kaizen [pdf] features my interview with Zoltan Cendes. We met in Naples, Florida, to discuss Mr. Cendes’s experience founding Ansoft, a $900 million software company that revolutionized engineering modeling. My favorite images from this issue show the uses of Ansoft’s software in improving the air and fluid dynamics for

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Shooting Shakespeare–novelist William Burroughs

3 Comments / Literature / Stephen Hicks

I have only two questions: 1. Would Shakespeare feel the need to shoot a portrait of Burroughs? 2. Would he find it amusing? Defacing others’ work is a recurring theme in modern and postmodern art: “Picasso took one of Matisse’s portraits of his daughter—and used it as a dartboard, encouraging his friends to do the

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Wellesley sculpture protests are not feminist

2 Comments / Education, Sculpture / Stephen Hicks

Tony Martelli’s The Sleepwalker has generated a large number of protests about its patriarchal nature. Journalists at Slate and The Wall Street Journal have more coverage. Students at Wellesley College have complained about how the statue triggers in them fears of sexual assault, white privilege, male privilege, oppression, and other very bad things. Feminism should

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