Ken Smith’s 1994 (TCJ #174) appreciation of Frazetta examines the artist in the larger context of fantasy illustrators and his heritage.
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THE CAVE OF FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS VI of IX
Posted by Ken Smith on April 17th, 2010 at 9:00 AM
Moderns are unaccountably surprised by the generally submerged or masked forms of vicious hostility that underlie even the most innocuous, trivial or mundane issues; but the problem is not the irremediable differences of perspective but rather the entirely misconceived or suppositious impression of congeniality.
The Cave Of False Consciousness, V of IX
Posted by Ken Smith on April 15th, 2010 at 10:00 AM
For Nietzsche it took a “madman” to declare the most blatant of modern actualities, “the death of God.” For archetypal truths demand anomalous heralds, most of all they demand original minds bearing the least burden of institutionally conferred respectability and authority. Count on it that moderns as moderns could never comprehend what “God” ever actually signified in human consciences or cultures…
The Cave Of False Consciousness IV of IX
Posted by Ken Smith on April 13th, 2010 at 1:00 PM
Neither the world nor human existence operate for the sake of entertaining our shallow self-diversionary egos.
The Cave of False Consciousness III
Posted by Ken Smith on February 18th, 2010 at 9:08 AMWhen bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
—Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
Our…
The Cave of False Consciousness II
Posted by Ken Smith on February 16th, 2010 at 9:01 AM. . . We are necessarily strangers to ourselves, we do not comprehend ourselves, we have to misunderstand ourselves, for us the law “Each is furthest from himself” applies to all eternity.
—Nietzsche, On…
Kenneth Smith on The Cave of False Consciousness
Posted by Ken Smith on February 13th, 2010 at 9:40 AMOpinion is the castle, or rather the temple of human nature; and, if it be polluted, there is no longer any thing sacred or venerable in sublunary existence.
—William Godwin, An Inquiry Concerning Political Justice, vol. 2,…
A Couple of Films About the Mystical Cult of Chance: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s Intacto and Gela Babluani’s 13 Tzameti
Posted by Ken Smith on December 10th, 2009 at 9:45 AMHow poor a bargain is the life of man, and in how mean a market are we sold.
—Oscar Wilde
The Spanish film Intacto (2002) explores the cult and charisma of “good luck” or nearly divine favoritism…
“Science” and “Rationality” as the Mystical Cult of Chance
Posted by Ken Smith on December 10th, 2009 at 9:00 AM
He nourished a conviction that there must be some logic
lurking somewhere in the results of chance.
—Joseph Conrad, “The End of the Tether”
I…
A COUPLE OF FILMS DEFYING MODERN ISOLATIONISM: Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Double Life of Veronique and Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Eclisse
Posted by Ken Smith on December 9th, 2009 at 3:01 PMTwo unnervingly and sublimely beautiful films can be mustered to illustrate the provincial metaphysical limitations of all that “bourgeois individualism” has ever taken for granted as normal, natural and ultimate: in The Double Life of Veronique (1991) a young woman’s…
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