Category: Philosophy
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Context Is Everything
There was a news story making the rounds last week concerning some “pranksters” who “fooled” some people at a food-industry exposition in Houten, Netherlands by offering them fare from a local McDonald’s presented as though it were haute cuisine. That the “victims” of this stunt did not recognize they were being served regular fast food…
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A Prolegomenon to Any Future Aesthetics
The title is a variation on a famous work by 18th century German philosopher Immanuel Kant and the painting, Twilight in The Wilderness, is by the 19th century American artist, Frederic Edwin Church and can be found in the Cleveland Museum of Art. In the upcoming weeks and months, I will begin addressing questions concerning…
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Bucky
While I’ve long associated R. “Bucky” Buckminster Fuller with the geodesic dome and had some vague awareness of his status as something of a visionary, I’d not really paid a great deal of attention to his actual work. Recently, several of his quotes have been making the rounds on Facebook and have piqued my interest…