“I feel sure learned aesthetics is rubbish, and that it ought to be a matter of literature and taste rather than science.“ -Bertrand Russell, some of the very few lines he ever wrote on aesthetics In the past, I would have wholly agreed with the above Russell quote. I was more or less an avid [...]
All posts for the month April, 2009
Aesthetics II: The Revenge of Aesthetics (this time, it’s personal)
Posted by kaiserpingvin on 30 April 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/04/30/aesthetics-ii-the-revenge-of-aesthetics-this-time-its-personal/
What the hell is art? — I. Strange bedfellows
What is art? Yeah, I went there. Trepidatiously, maybe, but it’s not as if we haven’t talked about it before. Besides, it’s bound to be fun if we pull relevant examples from the reader communities to which we belong. So strap yourselves in, my magnificent comrades; you’re in for some unusual posts. Each post in [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 26 April 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/04/26/what-the-hell-is-art-i-strange-bedfellows/
What Umberto Eco is Saying to lelangir, Just Because I Want Him to
[Post by Ghostlightning] Inspired by the non-shitty shitstorm here at Superfani called ‘twitter philosophy’ [->], I’m spinning the discussion off from lelangir’s epigram: nihilism is knowledge/power; in most cases, it can only be realized/actualized within capitalist institutions, thus materialism is the means towards idealism, towards the construction of contingent truths, towards a philosophical happiness that [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 26 April 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/04/26/what-umberto-eco-is-saying-to-lelangir-just-because-i-want-him-to/
Grasping the true form of Giygas’s attack
What’s this? A post? By Pontifus!? Surely glee seeps from your every pore. Until you realize it’s a video game post about a cult classic that’s probably more cult than classic. But fuck it. Earthbound is amazing, and all the more so for its unusual final boss. Giygas, like the game, compels one to drag [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 15 April 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/04/15/grasping-the-true-form-of-giygass-attack/
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