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No. 26: Is Art merely an artifact?

Contemporary art criticism has captured the contemporary artist and convinced him that a capitalist system necessarily commodifies everything, including Art. In part this is because of the leftward drift of the intellectual elites, in part it is true, and in part this is the result of a legitimate discussion of the nature of art. Aristotle, […]

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No. 25: Man as object

Science presupposes an outer reality that is not totally random, and therefore worthy of empirical study and capable of manipulation to man’s advantage. Thus, science’s purpose is utilitarian, not the more philosophical pursuit of “abstract truth,” which are terms the true empiricist does not believe have any meaning because the only form of knowledge is […]

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No. 24: Owen Barfield and beta-thinking

I recently read Owen Barfield’s Saving the Appearances. Owen Barfield was C.S. Lewis’ professor and an expert in the history of meaning. Saving the Appearances argues that the evolution of human consciousness can be tracked and that it has had a profound, if largely unrecognized effect on human perception and culture. According to Owen Barfield, […]

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No. 23: Is our culture dying? (continued)

I’ve been reading an interesting book entitled, Grand Strategies, which posits that diplomacy is more like literature than science, true, but also that the states of the world, and their populations, have been cut from their moorings by globalization—a kind of mix-master of cultures. I reject post-modernism and its siblings routinely in this blog. I […]

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No. 22: Is our culture dying?

I fear that our culture is dying and that the lack of beauty is a symptom. I live at the gateway to the Texas Hill country, and I witness the sacrilegious paving over of knee-high grass and live oaks daily. I have nothing against growth, but we don’t even consider beauty as part of the […]

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No. 21: The Image

I create images. The first thing most people will ask me about my images is what are they photographs of? This is natural in the sense that the viewer wants to bring up his preconceived notions about what the subject is to judge what he or she sees—I intend to deny them this pleasure, at […]

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