Wednesday, March 18, 2026

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

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Ilaan Vogt, "Texts for nothing" - woven from Samuel Beckett  
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

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?

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Paul Klee - Dancer, 1932. Oil/canvas, 66×56 cm
Monday, March 16, 2026

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

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  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...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

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

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Carved with an electric drill
Saturday, March 14, 2026

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

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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: ...
Friday, March 13, 2026

Choose Wisely

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“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”                                                             ― Aeschylus
Thursday, March 12, 2026

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?

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René Magritte - Mysterious Barricades, 1961 Oil on canvas, 80.6 x 128 cm
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Form is easily abstracted and represented, but is motion?

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Oskar Nerlinger (German, 1893-1969) Motorcycle in the Race, 1925 gelatin silver print 8 11/16 × 6 7/8" MoMA
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

"Contact!" by Serge Gainsbourg, 1968

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Une météorite m'a transpercé le cœur Vous, sur la terre, vous avez des docteurs Contact Contact Il me faut une transfusion de mercur...
Monday, March 9, 2026

Crass sensationalism, but is it transgressive?

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Sunday, March 8, 2026

L'Invention du monde (Michel Zimbacca & Jean-Louis Bédouin, 1953)

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Saturday, March 7, 2026

Circe turns Scylla into a sea monster

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John William Waterhouse - Circe Invidiosa,  1892                                     There was a cove, a little inlet shaped like a bent ...
Friday, March 6, 2026

Kostelantez and Grok

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Emanations contributor Richard Kostelantez has been investigating artificial intelligence and writers' biographies.  He asked grok to r...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Highbrow Returns: Emanations 12 progress report

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All Emanations 12 materials (except fiction illustrations) are now in the "master file".  I've prepared a fair draft of the T...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Highbrow Hiatus - Taking off to read manuscripts, back soon...

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Sky King : Kirby Grant and Gloria Winters with a Cessna 310B, N5384A, the Songbird. (Photograph by Hal McAlpin)
Monday, January 12, 2026

Brigitte Bardot & Sacha Distel - La Bise Aux Hippies (1967)

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Amusing satire.  "Free Love" indeed. Click HERE for lyrics.
Sunday, January 11, 2026

Reading submissions, communications forthcoming...

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Saturday, January 10, 2026

Satan Rock Star - Reading of Satanic Verses (from Terrance Lindall and Bienvenido Bones Bañez, Jr.)

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Just across my desk from Terrance Lindall.  Here, AI (I am assuming) reads from  Bienvenido Bones Bañez, Jr's   Satanic Verses .  While ...
Friday, January 9, 2026

Friday January 23, Joshua Tree, California

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  Space Cowboy Books 10 Year Anniversary Celebration Friday January 23 rd  4-6pm 61871 29 Palms Hwy. Joshua Tree, CA 92252 https://spacecowb...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

The Fantastic in Art and Fiction

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 A Wayback Machine archive of fantastic art and fiction created by the Cornell University Library Institute for Digital Collections. Click t...