Vivian Darkbloom

Vivian Darkbloom (Marianne Stone) holding the shoulder of Clair Quilty (Peter Sellers). Dolores "Lolita" Haze (Sue Lyon) is on the right. Vivian Darkbloom is Clair Quilty’s partner in writing--and crime. After Quilty’s death, Vivian writes Quilty’s biography. “Vivian Darkbloom” is an anagram for “Vladimir Nabokov” (is it?).

 

A character named Vivian Darkbloom makes an appearance in my short story contribution to Wave IX : "The Nanopoetic Quest in Theory and Practice".   Please click HERE for further remarks.

Curb appeal?

Italia 1958, a futuristic car with Sputnik knockoff used by the Italian Communist Party during General Elections

Emanations 12 news forthcoming

by David Delruelle

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Thenceforth, I Entered a Jasmin-Scented Dream of the Future

Peter Hacker - Wittgenstein and his impact upon Anglophone philosophy ("The declining influence of his work today will be explained and the concomitant losses to philosophy will be rehearsed.")

 

Description: 

In this talk, the salient achievements of Wittgenstein’s two masterpieces, the Tractatus and the Investigations will be surveyed and their influences on Anglophone and European philosophy recounted. Wittgenstein dominated fifty years of 20th century philosophy, from the 1920s to the 1970s. The declining influence of his work today will be explained and the concomitant losses to philosophy will be rehearsed. 

Peter Hacker was Fellow in Philosophy at St John's College, Oxford from 1966 to 2006, where he is now an Emeritus Fellow. He was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kent at Canterbury from 2013 to 2016. He was appointed to an Honorary Professorship at the UCL Institute of Neurology from 2019-2024. He is an Honorary Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford. He is author or co-author of 25 books, editor or co-editor of four books, and author of 175 papers. His main contributions to philosophy lie in his work on Wittgenstein, his writings (together with the great Australian neuroscientist Maxwell Bennett) on philosophy and neuroscience, and his tetralogy on human nature. His most recent book is Solving, Resolving, and Dissolving Philosophy Problems: Essays in Connective, Contrastive, and Contextual Analysis (2025). 

Who?

Geopolitics (the chess game begins at 4:08)

Impression and Abstraction

Paul Cezanne - Five Bathers, 1885-1887

Sorel Etrog - Study after Cezanne's Five Bathers, 1968

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Not "What can it mean?" Rather, "How does it mean?"

Yves Tanguy - Indefined Divisibility

Not "What does it mean?" Rather, "What can it mean?"

Ilaan Vogt, "Texts for nothing" - woven from Samuel Beckett

 

Prior to description or definition, can the word "irrational" be used to indicate features of aesthetic experience? If so, then is "irrational" a philosophical term? If not, is "irrational" an irrational utterance?

Paul Klee - Dancer, 1932. Oil/canvas, 66×56 cm

John Constable - "Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Garden"

 

One of three paintings of the same scene by Constable.  I believe the above is hanging in the Frick. Others are at the V&A and the São Paulo Museum of Art.   

See Tally-Ho, Cornelius! for commentary (p 107-8). The version that is the subject of my remarks (portrayed as a dialogue between the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Cornelius the Postmodern Divine and his little friend Cappy) is the full-scale study at the MET.

Seeking inspiration: a photographic meditation upon the Highbrow Halloween Pumpkin, 2025... Arbitrary, clever, and a touch wayward in the best sense of the word

Carved with an electric drill

If Saturn was at the same distance as the moon (238,855 miles)

Diameter of Earth: 7,926 miles

Diameter of Saturn: 74,898 miles

Diameter of Saturn's rings: 170,000 miles

Radius of Saturn's rings: 85,000 miles

Choose Wisely

“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.” 

                                                           ― Aeschylus

What is the nature of the mystery? How is this mystery characterized in our descriptions? In criticism? In utterance? In the painting? In (or is it through) our emotions? How are emotions in this case like (and unlike) a response?

René Magritte - Mysterious Barricades, 1961 Oil on canvas, 80.6 x 128 cm

Form is easily abstracted and represented, but is motion?

Oskar Nerlinger (German, 1893-1969) Motorcycle in the Race, 1925 gelatin silver print 8 11/16 × 6 7/8" MoMA

"Contact!" by Serge Gainsbourg, 1968

Une météorite m'a transpercé le cœur

Vous, sur la terre, vous avez des docteurs

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Il me faut une transfusion de mercure

J'en ai tant perdu par cette blessure

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Ôtez-moi ma combinaison spatiale

Retirez-moi cette poussière sidérale

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Comprenez-moi il me faut à tout prix

Rejoindre mon amour dans la galaxie

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In English:

A meteorite pierced my heart

You on Earth have doctors

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I need a mercury transfusion

I have lost so much from this wound

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Take off my spacesuit

Get this stardust off of me

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Understand me, I must at all costs

Join my love in the galaxy

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Crass sensationalism, but is it transgressive?