Posthumanism: Sloterdijk and the problem of political synthesis
☛ La Maison Française, New York University: Robert Silvers, New York City, early 1980s, from the exhibition “Dominique Nabokov: The World of the New York Review of Books”, Friday, November 1st – Friday, December 6th, 2013. Catalogue: PDF. Press release: PDF. For more details about the photo, see the end of this post. • • […]
Francis Bacon: “If they were not my friends, I could not do such violence to them.” (1966)
☛ “Three Studies For Portrait of Lucian Freud” by Francis Bacon, oil on canvas in three part, each 14″ x 11 7/8″, 1964 (dated on the reverse). Information retrieved from Sotheby’s Lot Notes. Hi-res reproduction retrieved from Antique and Art Ireland. On February 10, 2011, this painting was sold for £23 million ($37 million): Eight […]
“Likers” by Christopher David Ryan (March 2012)
☛ Christopher David Ryan: “Likers” March 8, 2012. © 2012 Christopher David Ryan The work of graphic artist Christopher David Ryan was featured here a little less than a year ago: “The Daily Fix” by Christopher David Ryan (May, 2011)
Milan Kundera on friendship and political convictions (Encounter, 2009)
In our time people have learned to subordinate friendship to what’s called “convictions.” And even with a prideful tone of moral correctness. It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be […]
