9 04, 2018

A Quick Word on How Social Media is Rewiring the Democratic Ganglion

By |2019-03-29T00:40:58+00:00April 9th, 2018|Arts & Letters, Practice, Theory|0 Comments

All major political epochs have their corresponding media epochs: the reformation and the printing press, the nation state and the broadsheet newspaper, nationalism and the pamphlet. We now find ourselves at such an epoch, somewhere between the global village and the filter bubble.

9 02, 2018

“To Art Its Freedom”: Right-Wing Arts Policy in the New Austria

By |2019-03-29T06:04:43+00:00February 9th, 2018|Arts & Letters, Practice, Theory|0 Comments

Art can be a challenge to power, or be power’s instrument. Sometimes it can even end up being both. This last is what happened recently in Austria, where a new, right-wing government has adopted the motto of an art movement that formed in Vienna in 1897, precisely in opposition to conservative leadership.

12 01, 2018

Performing a Seduction: Performance Art Houston’s “Political Seducer’s Diary”

By |2019-03-29T17:15:56+00:00January 12th, 2018|Arts & Letters|0 Comments

Inspired by Kierkegaard’s “The Seducer’s Diary,” @PerformanceArtHouston asks how the question “what is beautiful” might determine “what is just” and ultimately affect politics.

21 12, 2017

The Grand Trumpeter

By |2019-03-29T20:24:22+00:00December 21st, 2017|Arts & Letters, Practice|1 Comment

He came to the United States of America at a time quite different than that of the Catholic Crisis which Dostoevsky had observed in Spain. The prevailing perversion of many Americans was, making use of their democracy as a godly tool, purporting to protect their way of life they viewed as threatened by forces both from without and within by demonizing and pre-judging those forces. The forces being Bad Hombres who immigrate illegally to the country bringing with them crime and drug addiction (not to mention infidels from Muslim nations that want to kill all Americans), and loose laws by tolerant administrations that allowed for morally degenerate groups like homosexuals, transsexuals, and others to claim better or near equal footing in business and government relations.

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