Nothing like the self-bruiting entitlements of massive and
insupportable generalisations...
Wasn't it Nietzsche who proposed that everything was surface? And
weren't Cocteau and Wilde brilliant practitioners of the profound
surface? Were they post-modernists? Or Marxists?
And which art is that which is "easy"? I know lots of artists, and
none of them have it easy.
But why am I grumbling on about this like a curmudgeon? I have work to do -
xA
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Catherine Daly <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> you can incorporate in Delaware for US$99.
>
> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> After a thorough skimming, the word "hogwash" come to mind.
>>
>> Hal Serving the tri-state area.
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>> Halvard Johnson
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>> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
>> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
>> <http://www.hamiltonstone.org>
>> <http://www.hamiltonstone.org>*The Perfection of Mozart's Third Eye and
>> Other Sonnets*
>>
>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/27039868/Halvard-Johnson-THE-PERFECTION-OF-MOZART-S-THIRD-EYE-Other-Sonnets
>>
>> *Tango Bouquet*
>> <
>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/27039868/Halvard-Johnson-THE-PERFECTION-OF-MOZART-S-THIRD-EYE-Other-Sonnets
>> >
>> https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATDp6rzKkBkhZGZwand2cHdfOWc1Mnh3Zw&hl=en
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>> <
>> https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATDp6rzKkBkhZGZwand2cHdfOWc1Mnh3Zw&hl=en
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>> *Theory of Harmony*
>> *
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>> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall04/theory1.pdf
>> *
>> *Rapsodie espagnole*
>> *
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>> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/rapsodi.pdf
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>> *<
>> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/rapsodi.pdf
>> >The
>> Sonnet Project*
>> *
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>> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/hsonnet.pdf
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>> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/hsonnet.pdf
>> >
>> G(e)nome*
>> *http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall03/genome.pdf
>> *
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>> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Jeffrey Side <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> > “Entitlements: Post-Modernity, Capitalism, and the Threat to Poetry's
>> > History” by Adam Filed at The Argotist Online:
>> > http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Fieled%20essay%204.htm
>> > Excerpt:
>> > The flimsy history created by post-modernity contrives to impose an
>> > intimidating veneer; but a lack of real engagement with history creates a
>> > sense of the ephemeral which, if not embraced, (and post-modernists do
>> > express consonance with the “ephemeral” as such) must be rejected
>> > absolutely. Many post-modern equations are simple: “incorporate or
>> perish”
>> > is one. What, beyond creating an imposing veneer, constitutes post-modern
>> > “incorporation”? Nothing. Post-modernists, for what’s often an obvious
>> > reason, feel entitled to stop at the surface; the reason is that a
>> > persistent sense of entitlement inhibits and destroys human depth.
>> > Deprivation often engenders depth— if you have never been deprived, it is
>> > difficult to imagine a need for depth. And if you espouse and embrace
>> > Marxist levels of material engagement, but fail to connect them to your
>> own
>> > existence and begin to take some personal responsibility for it, you
>> become
>> > a kind of sham factory owner. Anyone in the arts who has not inherited
>> funds
>> > the way that you have becomes an underling. Underlings can be brushed
>> aside;
>> > what begins as warped Marxism becomes straightforward Darwinian obduracy.
>> > Simply put, the arts aren’t fair, and they never have been. What
>> > post-modernity imposes is a context in which there is not only no justice
>> in
>> > who “gets in,” there is no justice in what they feel they are entitled to
>> do
>> > when/if they do get in. What do they feel entitled to do, more often than
>> > not?
>> >
>>
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> Catherine Daly
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