David Given Schwarm

America is a land of masking jokers.

1. Art is not the sublime descent of the infinite into the finite abjection of the body and sexuality. It is the production of an infinite subjective series through the finite means of a material subtraction. 2. Art cannot merely be the expression of a particularity (be it ethnic or personal). Art is the impersonal…

You know there is something extremely fun about telling the future. And it is not just fun to try to guess the future, it is even better if you tell someone else what your prediction is – you let them on to your guess. Even if you are not correct, the anticipation created by telling…

I saw this at a matinee on January 19th @ 13:30. it was horrible – I actually think that it may have been worse then Catwoman. I have no idea why it is so hard for Hollywood to make a female superhero film. Ghost World is clearly the best chick comic film ever made –…

I like the utter sympliciyt of these drawings & the greek mythological themes. http://www.derekeller.com/Chrishammerlein.html very nice online exhibit as well.

1. There is no other way to get the information. 2. No one is put at risk, including the risk of social scorn. 3. The knowledge sought is important enough to justify deception. I am not sure that there is any case where deception will not undermine the research framework to such an extent that…

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.

Frazer’s presentation of the magical and religious views of men is unsatisfactory…it makes these views appear as errors

I venture to think, on the contrary, that men first acknowledged a single god, and that human weakness later adopted several.