Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Ruins of the Ziggurat of Dur-Kurigalzu - consider as a sculpture?








Title: "Untitled" (14th century BCE)
Genre: Modern Art
Well-tempered liben and stamped baked bricks with erosion effects

Sunday, November 17, 2024

Highbrow wisdom for the pure of heart












Tomorrow is another day, but today is today.

Saturday, November 9, 2024

Do aesthetic values have a place in the description of this image? Or should we instead emphasize aesthetic virtues?

Max Ernst – La mer et le soleil, 1926

Values are synthetic a priori dicta established by some arbitrary authority, while virtues rather reflect the subjective activity of enjoyment and appreciation. To each his own, though I should be remis were I not to point out that in ethics and moral philosophy the values vs. virtues distinction carries significant political implications.

Friday, November 8, 2024

Emanations 11 has been published!


























The latest volume of International Authors’ literary anthology series, Emanations 11 presents stunning art, illustrations and writing from around the world. Over five-hundred pages long, this new book sustains International Authors’ commitment to innovation and experimentation: challenging visual pieces, intriguing artists’ statements, idiosyncratic memoirs, candid academic reflections, astute poetic expressions and cutting-edge speculative fiction. The forty-three contributors represent Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Nepal, India, Oman, Spain, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States.


Click HERE (or the cover image) to order.

Thursday, November 7, 2024

A collection of new short stories inspired by J. G. Ballard: Wave IX is available for pre-order













From the Space Cowboy Books description:

A tribute to the fictitious magazine Wave IX from J.G. Ballard's 1961 short story "Studio 5, The Stars." In the fictitious version of the magazine Ballard predicts the rise of machine generated poetry; and in this real-world version of Wave IX the current debacle over machine generated works is satirized, battled against, and disregarded with human generated works, tributes to Ballard, works inspired by the story, and more. Wave IX features an multigenerational cast of writers and artists from all over the world.

Featuring stories, poetry, and art from: Eugen Bacon, F.J. Bergmann, Michael Butterworth, Jacques Garnier, Jean-Paul L. Garnier, Carter Kaplan, Jardine Libaire, Jonathan Nevair, Charles Platt, Aaron Sheppard, & Mark Soden Jr.

This anthology is published by Space Cowboy Books, an award-winning brick and mortar bookstore in Joshua Tree, California, an independent publishing house, producer of Simultaneous Times podcast, and event space.

Edited by Jean-Paul L. Garnier

Product Details
Price
$12.99  $12.08
Publisher
Space Cowboy Books
Publish Date
Pages
94
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.5 X 0.24 inches | 0.24 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9798989630820

Click HERE (or the cover image) to order.

Sunday, November 3, 2024

editing continues

Examining a proof copy.  Emanations 11 looks good.  More information soon.

Saturday, November 2, 2024

Andromeda Nebula

 

Andromeda Nebula: A Space-Age Tale is a science fiction novel by the Soviet writer and paleontologist IvanYefremov, written in 1955–1956 and published in 1957.

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Emanations 11 coming soon

I am now going over the proof copy.  Should be out in a few weeks. Stay tuned.