Posted: March 19th, 2009 | Author: waterdish | Filed under: Fact | Tags: anti-dialectical, justice, looting, proto global | No Comments »
'Speed Limit 15 miles per hour'. circa. 1920
This is the fourth year there have been forty
buses touring China with the purpose of executing capital convictions. Chatter of dipping
bodies in wax for exhibition and
organ-harvesting must quiet people as the ‘death bus’ arrives in the city. It appears so
innocuous one could board accidentally, expecting a smooth journey to (family)
ancestors, but it might properly be matte-black and sport a chimney with a whistling-cap. As is, it would raise no eyebrows on Wall St.
In the meantime, China says ‘tersely’ that it will
“never adopt … an independent judiciary”
This is a ’sad’ then; because these remarks may be viewed as a declaration of choice for ‘warlordism’, or a personal statism like some in the archaic Middle Kingdom. Anachronistic and against a ‘modern’, it seems to mirror several contemporary neighbors: Burma, Russia, Iran, Korea.
Posted: February 26th, 2009 | Author: waterdish | Filed under: Fact, Myth | Tags: anti-dialectical, looting, thought object | 1 Comment »
Ad Reinhardt, 1963. Galerie Iris Clert, Paris. photo: André Morain
… 1963 the President who would go to the moon was murdered. At the 1964 GOP Convention, trolls smashed Nelson Rock., and the ideology of Goldwater to match Reagan’s “A Time for Choosing” rhetoric. In 1965, new shoots of a ‘great society’ were trampled by flat-soles turned against ‘the northeast educated liberal elites’. MLK in 1967 through Kent State in 1970 saw the destruction of ‘promise’ complete.
Critics and art history postulate the ‘end of the Modern’ around 1968-72: bones over the monolith in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001″; Frank Stella; Robert Smithson’s ‘Partially Buried Woodshed’.
War with enemies like the late Paul Newman, Rumsfeld badgered Ford at the 1976 GOP Con. to drop the hapless Rock. for hopeless Dole. Creating August 1980 surprises, the post-modern re-entrenches with the investiture of the apostate actor; with hubris and nemesis together like a dowry in a ‘utopian phantasm’ and ‘charades’ for a ‘new world order’, conceits at ‘the end of history’.
Philip Guston was painting pointy-hooded men smoking in bed, Michael Grave’s “New Portland Building” and the new mannerist aesthetic of broken plates, people just fragments of tortured memory; all expressions before 1980.
President by precedent in 2001, by now the empty, useless fools curdle what they touch. Long shifting meaning to suit, necessarily disdainful of education for several generations, the GOP may not understand the gripe on the wall, remaining antinomians with intent to destroy ‘Modernism’ completely. Vulgar, still shrill from the hollow in the brush, they must grasp now (’delenda est’) from the empty space off a cliff…
In the meantime, the polity they sought by all means to destroy, for so long, keep Hope to the new ‘truth and freedom that surpasses everything’. Please may the period 1963-2008, the 45 years of the post modern troll be viewed as object lesson in how not to proceed.
Posted: February 25th, 2009 | Author: waterdish | Filed under: Myth, transormification | Tags: aestheticism, economy, little unifying theory, thought object | No Comments »
“Irish Snowball”, painted in the spring of 1988 was as desire, a wish on hope for a change. Very simple. The green is really greener in life since I had in mind the sorry difficulties, violent goings on in northern part of the emerald island. The disunited dark ‘flakes’ here each have little ‘hooks’ to help meld to the larger body.
Transport and sort an updated expression with the ‘flakes’ become bankers, and ‘hooks’ bits of vault shipping to the moon and hard landings.
Posted: February 14th, 2009 | Author: waterdish | Filed under: Fact, Myth | Tags: anti-dialectical, economy, education, looting, politics | 6 Comments »
Chaim Soutine - Side Of Beef
It was so slight, and late, to introduce an ideology for conditions which the world is still reeling to right, but after the middle of September last year, in the final iota of a fool’s presidency, man-in-a-suit-too-tight bleats ‘democratic capitalism‘ ahead of the usual tormenting of language.
Language is not really the word, ‘weirdness’ might be better, but a couple of days later ‘democratic capitalism‘ spills again as if it was sugar-plum pit, force choked-out with a strike to the back. The two lay silent on the floor.
Voting for the cost of a cup of coffee seemed too creative by far; but courage to Google and Wiki reveal ugly, and unmentionables very quickly: a large ‘vanitas’ of Jesuit militarist trolls bantering about the thinking of the Founding Fathers.
“Democratic capitalism is an economic ideology based on a tripartite arrangement of a market-based economy based predominantly on economic incentives through free markets, a democratic polity and a liberal moral-cultural system which encourages pluralism.”
Jesus toppled as fave philosopher?
Each of the three supports to this fiction he had consistently undermined whenever the law, markets, or tolerance did not suit. Signed exceptions at the bottom of Orders: the procrustean was blind to the freak-truth borne of a trojan horse; a surreal world without basis, and thus no possible dialectic. Bending to sap his foundation he saw the ‘darkest corners of the earth’ are perhaps not only in a mind.
Posted: February 4th, 2009 | Author: waterdish | Filed under: Fact | Tags: aestheticism, economy, education, Iraq, little unifying theory, looting | No Comments »
Shoe For W
Planning had two and a half billion dollar set-aside for reconstruction in Iraq. That might have been sufficient, but the looting of the national museums bursting with ancient art also blew out parameters of behavior. Good style is something art teaches after all; it was gone.
I remember the top Iraqi criminal had one hundred and twenty thousand artists serving his conceits, and my thinking at the time how there could be a (new) museum to house some of this stuff, with the object of teaching about bad art no matter endless artful presentations. There might have been a gallery where one could throw loaded shoes at an exhibit.
Nearly six years later;
“We will not allow anyone to use the government facilities and buildings for political motives.”
The new freedom ought allow an admittedly large shoe made with help of the children from the orphanage where it was briefly shown.
Posted: February 4th, 2009 | Author: waterdish | Filed under: Fact | Tags: aesthetic, education, justice, little unifying theory, proto global, thought object | No Comments »
President Abraham Lincoln’s Postmaster General, Montgomery Blair is credited with founding the notion for what became the ‘Universal Postal Union‘, one of two international organization to survive both world wars of the following century. The other, ‘Telecommunications’, was largely sister to the UPU.
How is it that this brilliant idea, large and characteristic of the (postmaster) President is ascribed to a fairly uncooperative cabinet member who has not this authority?
The packet ship, ‘Trent‘, has left Havana - Cuba, for London, soon after Civil War hostilities begin. Union Navy captures it off the Carolinas. President Lincoln’s intelligence has it a foil and pretext for that government to join the conflict on the side of Secession; but Lincoln instructs for the ‘mail’ not to be molested. And then setting his Postmaster General to check-see if foreign governments too might create agreement so nations can pass mail (for payment) and not interfere with each others’ stuff so much.
The world might be happy to join U.S. representation ‘at this moment’; for the increase of justice in the 200th birthday Proclamations and Commemorations of the great man.
It is not necessary to speak further, but in my opinion, because President Obama’s family were denied use of Monty’s father’s ‘Francis Blair House’ recently, Blair’s part as hero in UPU historiography be scrubbed (palinpested) in favor of the true protagonist of an important union.
Posted: February 2nd, 2009 | Author: waterdish | Filed under: Fact | Tags: aestheticism, education, little unifying theory | No Comments »
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog - AKA Sky Cunt
‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder‘ : ‘it depends on whether I like it or not‘.
Considering any work of art; the faster a person explains judgment using this language, often the less will be known about the subject by this person.
Without context, bias can run wilder than the bunny in a meadow who has seen big bird aloft, and can hide too defying further rationalism or objectivity. Preference for a sunset on velvet than the real thing.
In this personal-centric view, Nature itself is subject to variable ‘likes and dislikes’, and beauty as near meaningless as a choice can be; a whim.
The conceited laying trashy garlands at the stoop of the house of art is one thing, but subjective attitude to ‘beauty’ has proved dangerous folly now looking at climate change.
Beauty is what we are, and in the relations of the constructions of the eye ‘of the beholder’, but it is what one is looking at always - organizing outside the eye.
Leonardo’s figure squared in a circle is all ‘golden mean’ you know and beauty exists in this same proportional relationship, dynamic and not-fleeting.
Remember it has gone nowhere, it must keep up with itself is all, like a transorma machine. Count on much practical benefit from a flip of this little switch.
A topical example: since there is a ‘minimum-bottom’ (wage), any intelligent design would need, by relation, a ‘maximum-top’. In nature, the top of the (snow) banks’ shape is scoured by howling aggregate as pressures sink, flattening the bottom; a crystal ceiling over earthen safety- net.
