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Can you tell us a bit about how you got started with Museums Press, who or what inspired the publishing endeavour?
Museums Press started in 2009. It began as an ambitious publishing endeavor with MUSEUMS ONE which grew from what was meant to be a simple photocopied group zine, to become a box-set with a book, a tape, posters, a comic and screen-printed packaging, which was handmade in it's entirety. MUSEUMS TWO had a similar ethic, but was far more simple to put together, 25 individual photocopied fanzines, one of us still thinks of it as their proudest moment. MUSEUMS THREE took another year to come to fruition and in amongst it's chaos MUSEUMS SMALL PRESS was founded to maintain a steadier, more simple stream of releases. Really, the inspiration comes with each project. Its about putting out releases with as much enthusiasm and care as possible.
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'He stabbed a drug-filled syringe straight through his shirt': Jo Wood reveals the moment she met rocker Keith Richards
Jo Wood's revelations continue in her tell-all memoir of her time with the Rolling Stones.
The rocker's wife, whose marriage to Ronnie Wood ended in 2009, has revealed the first time she met Keith Richards he stuck a drug filled syringe straight through his shirt before introducing himself.
Her book, It's Only Rock 'N' Roll: 30 Years Married To A Rolling Stone, describes a wild weekend in 1977 in Paris where Jo describes taking drugs with the two rockers.
Interesting first meeting! Keith Richards stuck a drug filled syringe through his shirt when he first met Jo in 1977 in Paris
Back in the day: Jo Wood with Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood in 1985
She remembers: 'Keith reached into his bag and took out a silver spoon, a bottle of pills and a lighter.
'In a matter of seconds, he'd crushed some of the pills with a bit of water, cooked them up, then filled a syringe and stabbed it straight through his shirt. A moment's pause — then he looked up at me with a radiant smile. 'Hello, my dear. I've heard so much about you!'"
She continues: 'The three of us spent the next three days cooped up in my broom-cupboard of a hotel room, drinking and taking drugs, only occasionally venturing out in Keith's Bentley to get a fix or a bite to eat. Food was not a priority: you don't have much of an appetite on coke.'
Party animals: Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood and wife Jo at the opening of new club Home in Leicester Square, in 1999
But she adds that Keith consumed drugs so regularly it led to some shocking behaviour.
Radaronline reports Jo details a disasterous roast dinner where Keith produced a bag of cocaine 'for dessert' infront of her mother.
Keith has now turned sober, giving up heroin in 1978 after being caught by police five times.
It almost three dacades later when he stopped taking cocaine in 2006 because he fell out of a tree and needed surgery.
Jo's book is out on May 21 and may contain just a hint of bitterness after Ronnie left his wife of three decades for a girl who is younger than his children.
Rocking the truth: Ronnie Wood's wife of 30 years, Jo Wood, releasing a tell all book
Releasing an early excerpt of her book, It's Only Rock 'N' Roll: 30 Years Married To A Rolling Stone, to Radaronline, the former model claims she and Ronnie had to smuggle 'smack' laced cigarettes into Nassau in 1978.
According to the 58-year-old the trouble started when the Rolling Stone agreed to join forces with Beatle Ringo Star to help a new musician record his album.
New author: Releasing an early excerpt of her book, the former model claims she and Ronnie had to smuggle 'smack' laced cigarettes into Nassau
Problem was Victor was not just the musician he was also a 'Colombian drug lord', according to the book.
'Victor was acting like a mad man as he was smoking ''dirty cigarettes'' or DCs - little roll-ups containing smack - which he was intending to take in to the Bahamas,' Jo wrote.
'I didn't touch them, as they had the most revolting smell - if I think about it even now I gag - but Ronnie went into the bathroom for a sneaky puff.
'Shortly after he stumbled back to his seat, a flight attendant came over and crouched next to me.
'''Excuse me,'' she said to Ronnie, ''but I think your friend has left this in the toilet.''
'She was holding out the bag of DCs. Ronnie must have got so stoned he'd left it in there.'
As the plane began its descent 'sharp-suited' Victor 'dumped the bag' of drugs in Jo's lap.
'As he was a drugs trafficker, I assumed that Victor would already have a plan in place to smuggle his stash through Customs, but as we started our descent he suddenly dumped the bag in my lap. It turned out that I was the plan.'
Although she protested, 'Ronnie thought it would be wiser to humour our host, so in the end we got a carton of duty-free cigarettes, removed all the cigarettes from the middle packet, stuffed Victor's stash in there, then carefully packed it up again to look like new.'
'Of course, when we got to Customs they immediately zeroed in on me; I must have been giving off guilty vibes.
'Then the inspector held up the duty-free bag containing the carton of cigarettes. ''Is this yours?'' he asked me.
Rock Brady Bunch: Jo and Ronnie, pictured here in 1980, were married for 30 years and have two children together, and a child each from a former relationship
'No, I said, pointing at Victor. ''They're his!'' I was damned if I was going to risk life in prison for him.
'As Victor scowled at me, the inspector took out one packet and carefully checked inside, but to everyone's immense relief it wasn't the doctored one and we were finally waved through.'
The MailOnline has sought comment from a representative for Ronnie on his ex wife's claims.
Released May 21, Ronnie who is currently on tour, may be getting a little worried about the book's content.
Jo and Ronnie were married for 30 years and have two children together but the pair split after the rocker left her for a 21-year-old he had met in a club in 2008.
Ronnie went into rehab that same year and in 2009 Jo divorced him. In December Ronnie married his girlfriend of eight months, 34-year-old Sally Humphreys.
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Sproul notes that if we do not get God's love right, we will fail to have a sound understanding of Him. Scripture tells us, "God is love." All genuine love proceeds from God and is rooted in Him. In people, this love is found only in the regenerated.
Sproul is quick to acknowledge that anything we say about God will be said anthropomorphically. Whatever God's love is, it transcends our best efforts to describe it.
Sproul writes about what it means that God's love is holy. He investigates God's love as seen in the Old Testament and as shown through His Son. He explains the loyal love of God, God's faithful love, God's hatred, and God's unconditional love (not universalism).
He explains the relationship of God's love to His electing grace, as well as God's sovereignty. (He critiques the prescient view.) He discusses the order of salvation, and the Augustinian and semi-Pelagian views of election. He covers the threefold love of God: benevolence, beneficence, complacency.
He lastly discusses agape as is it to be shown by the believer, concentrating on 1 Corinthians 13.
This is pure R. C. Sproul. He writes with theological clarity and conviction. It is also pure Calvinism.
There is lots of theology in this book that some might find a little difficult. Nonetheless, this is a great explanation of God's love and how it relates to election. With Calvinism on the rise, this a good book for a new generation of believers.
I received a complimentary egalley of this book from the publisher for the purpose of this review.
R.C. has such a gift for taking deep theological truths and explaining them to the average layperson. This book is no exception.
"God's Love" is just that, a book about the love of God. He delves into some fascinating questions.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Candidates for all eight Board of Elementary and Secondary Education seats are on Saturday's ballot in Louisiana. A look at how the races shape up:
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — When it comes to the future of public school policy in Louisiana, the political math gets complicated and party lines blur.
A St. Mary Parish Law Enforcement Center jailer was arrested after he admitted he brought contraband into the jail, St. Mary Parish Sheriff Mark Hebert said in a news release.
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Franklin received an "unmodified," or clean opinion on last year's financial audit.
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Tread a paper path along the folds of a pop-up book and become wrapped up in a captivating world of secrets in Tengami, a unique point-and-click adventure for Nintendo eShop on Wii U.
Tengami inks its way through a mysterious story, set in a world of Japanese fairy tales. Filled with texture and colour, there are shrines, forests and mountains to explore, each an intricate construction in its own right, and a digital reflection of the real-world origami technique it?s created with.
Opening under the boughs of a once-mighty cherry tree, you must seek an answer to the lone tree?s blight. Collect cherry blossoms as you go, and traverse environments, as puzzles unfurl and obstacles reveal themselves. Each can be solved or surmounted by using the Wii U GamePad and stylus to flip, fold, slide and pull parts of the world ? tap to move to a spot, and watch for glowing areas to indicate the way forward. To start, it could be something as simple as pulling down folds to create a path. But later on, you?ll have to look deeper and uncover clues buried within the layers, cuts and creases of the book ? within the very folds of the world ? as the puzzles become more lateral. The picture is completed by a soothing soundtrack from composer David Wise, enhancing the experience with a deft touch.
The antithesis of all-out action, Tengami weaves a serene thread of relaxation and harmony. It?s a perfect partner for night-time puzzle-solving, as relaxing as green tea. You won?t need any other reason to lose yourself in an atmosphere of tranquil mystery and such striking visual style ? and thanks to a familiar world of pop-up books, you?ve known how to play it since your childhood.
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Once more, alas, I find myself unable to follow the best Liberal thought. What the World's contention amounts to, at bottom, is simply the doctrine that a man engaged in combat with superstition should be very polite to superstition. This, I fear, is nonsense. The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.
True enough, even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights. He has a right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities as long as he pleases, provided only he does not try to inflict them upon other men by force. He has a right to argue for them as eloquently as he can, in season and out of season. He has a right to teach them to his children. But certainly he has no right to be protected against the free criticism of those who do not hold them. … They are free to shoot back. But they can't disarm their enemy.
The meaning of religious freedom, I fear, is sometimes greatly misapprehended. It is taken to be a sort of immunity, not merely from governmental control but also from public opinion. A dunderhead gets himself a long-tailed coat, rises behind the sacred desk, and emits such bilge as would gag a Hottentot. Is it to pass unchallenged? If so, then what we have is not religious freedom at all, but the most intolerable and outrageous variety of religious despotism. Any fool, once he is admitted to holy orders, becomes infallible. Any half-wit, by the simple device of ascribing his delusions to revelation, takes on an authority that is denied to all the rest of us. … What should be a civilized man's attitude toward such superstitions? It seems to me that the only attitude possible to him is one of contempt. If he admits that they have any intellectual dignity whatever, he admits that he himself has none. If he pretends to a respect for those who believe in them, he pretends falsely, and sinks almost to their level. When he is challenged he must answer honestly, regardless of tender feelings.
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July 19, 2016
QotD: The battle against superstition
June 22, 2016
Kathy Shaidle wonders if the Pope is even Catholic
Her latest column for Taki's Magazine discusses her own journey away from the Catholic church and the current Pope's own journey in a similar direction:
Such are the epochal times we're living in that even timeworn truisms are at risk of obsolescence.
Take "Is the Pope Catholic?" Those of a certain age may prefer Steve Martin's absurdist gloss — "Does the Pope shit in the woods?" — but the original has been every wise guy's idea of a witticism for as long as I've been alive, and presumably longer.
But I'm not the first to wonder if the election of Pope Francis has rendered the phrase extinct. Great news for anyone whose taste in conversation veers away from the Runyonesque, but obviously not so great news for, you know, the Church.
Years ago, I would have cared more.
I spent much of my career as a semiprofessional Catholic. Besides working in Catholic publishing, such as it is, I'd called my first blog Relapsed Catholic. That was in 2000. When the American priestly sex-abuse scandals exploded shortly thereafter, I was in a uniquely helpful position: Canada had undergone an identical crisis the previous decade, and my blog posts about both found an eager readership. I encouraged others to start their own sites, and eventually an informal network grew up — run by priests, nuns, canon lawyers, laity — which I nicknamed "St. Blog's Parish."
I was then, as I am now, the resident brat. When, in 2002, America's clueless cardinals called for a Day of Reparations — during which the laity would perform penance for what were undeniably clerical sins — I blogged that collective guilt was exactly one of the "trendy modern notions" (like the New Age "therapy" sporadically employed to "treat" pervert priests, and the diocesan deference to secular lawyers' morally dubious advice) that had exacerbated the corruption. Jesus, I noted, had been bracingly clear on the topic of child abuse: "It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck."
"Implicitly," I blogged, "someone has to stay dry. And do the tying. I'm delighted to volunteer."
May 26, 2016
Terry Teachout on silent movies
Ten years ago, Terry Teachout finally got around to watching D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, and found (to his relief) that it was just as offensively racist as everyone had always said. He also discovered that silent movies are becoming terra incognita even to those who love old movies:
None of this, however, interested me half so much as the fact that The Birth of a Nation progresses with the slow-motion solemnity of a funeral march. Even the title cards stay on the screen for three times as long as it takes to read them. Five minutes after the film started, I was squirming with impatience, and after another five minutes passed, I decided out of desperation to try an experiment: I cranked the film up to four times its normal playing speed and watched it that way. It was overly brisk in two or three spots, most notably the re-enactment of Lincoln's assassination (which turned out to be quite effective – it's the best scene in the whole film). For the most part, though, I found nearly all of The Birth of a Nation to be perfectly intelligible at the faster speed.
Putting aside for a moment the insurmountable problem of its content, it was the agonizingly slow pace of The Birth of a Nation that proved to be the biggest obstacle to my experiencing it as an objet d'art. Even after I sped it up, my mind continued to wander, and one of the things to which it wandered was my similar inability to extract aesthetic pleasure out of medieval art. With a few exceptions, medieval and early Renaissance art and music don't speak to me. The gap of sensibility is too wide for me to cross. I have a feeling that silent film – not just just The Birth of a Nation, but all of it – is no more accessible to most modern sensibilities. (The only silent movies I can watch with more than merely antiquarian interest are the comedies of Buster Keaton.) Nor do I think the problem is solely, or even primarily, that it's silent: I have no problem with plotless dance, for instance. It's that silent film "speaks" to me in an alien tongue, one I can only master in an intellectual way. That's not good enough for me when it comes to art, whose immediate appeal is not intellectual but visceral (though the intellect naturally enters into it).
As for The Birth of a Nation, I'm glad I saw it once. My card is now officially punched. On the other hand, I can't imagine voluntarily seeing it again, any more than I'd attend the premiere of an opera by Philip Glass other than at gunpoint. It is the quintessential example of a work of art that has fulfilled its historical purpose and can now be put aside permanently – and I don't give a damn about history, at least not in my capacity as an aesthete. I care only for the validity of the immediate experience.
[…] Thrill me and all is forgiven. Bore me and you've lost me. That's why I think it's now safe to file and forget The Birth of a Nation. Yes, it's still historically significant, and yes, it tells us something important about the way we once were. But it's boring — and thank God for that.
May 19, 2016
QotD: A contrarian view of "Britain in decline"
… it is not a bad time to remind ourselves how lucky we are to live on this damp little island.
I don't mean this in a jingoistic way, and certainly when you look closely there is little to recommend Henry V's brutal French raid. What there is to celebrate, of course, is Shakespeare's poetic rendering of the campaign. It is our literary, scientific, technological, economic, political and philosophical achievements, rather than just our military milestones that we should occasionally pause to remember, amid our usual self-criticism.
All my life I have been told that Britain is in decline. But stand back and take a long, hard look. Even by relative standards, it just is not true. We have recently overtaken France (again) as the fifth largest economy in the world and are closing on Germany. We have the fourth largest defence budget in the world, devoted largely to peace-keeping. We disproportionately contribute to the world's literature, art, music, technology and science.
We have won some 123 Nobel prizes, more than any other country bar America (and more per capita than America), and we continue to win them, with 18 in this century so far. In the field of genetics, which I know best, we discovered the structure of DNA, invented DNA fingerprinting, pioneered cloning and contributed 40 per cent of the first sequencing of the human genome.
On absolute measures, we are in even better shape. Income per capita has more than doubled since 1965 — in real terms. In those days, three million households lacked or shared an inside lavatory, most houses did not have central heating and twice as many people as today had no access to a car. When they did it was expensive, unreliable and leaked fumes.
In the 1960s even though there were fewer people in Britain, rivers were more polluted, the air was dirtier, and there were fewer trees, otters and buzzards. Budget airlines, mobile phones, search engines and social media were as unimaginable as unicorns. Sure, there was less obesity and fewer traffic jams, but there were more strikes, racism and nylon clothing. People spent twice as much of their income on food. There may be political angst about immigrants, but Britain is far more at ease with its multicultural self today than we might have dared to hope in the 1960s.
Matt Ridley, "Britain's Best Years", MattRidley.com, 2015-01-01.
May 16, 2016
QotD: The value of criticism
Critical note — Of a piece with the absurd pedagogical demand for so-called constructive criticism is the doctrine that an iconoclast is a hollow and evil fellow unless he can prove his case. Why, indeed, should he prove it? Is he judge, jury, prosecuting officer, hangman? He proves enough, indeed, when he proves by his blasphemy that this or that idol is defectively convincing — that at least one visitor to the shrine is left full of doubts. The fact is enormously significant; it indicates that instinct has somehow risen superior to the shallowness of logic, the refuge of fools. The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians — and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse. The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe — that the god in the sanctuary was finite in his power and hence a fraud. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
H.L. Mencken, "Clinical Notes", The American Mercury, 1924-01.
April 17, 2016
QotD: "Thought collectives" in science
In a 2015 paper titled Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?, a team of scholars at the National Bureau of Economic Research sought an empirical basis for a remark made by the physicist Max Planck: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
The researchers identified more than 12,000 "elite" scientists from different fields. The criteria for elite status included funding, number of publications, and whether they were members of the National Academies of Science or the Institute of Medicine. Searching obituaries, the team found 452 who had died before retirement. They then looked to see what happened to the fields from which these celebrated scientists had unexpectedly departed, by analysing publishing patterns.
What they found confirmed the truth of Planck's maxim. Junior researchers who had worked closely with the elite scientists, authoring papers with them, published less. At the same time, there was a marked increase in papers by newcomers to the field, who were less likely to cite the work of the deceased eminence. The articles by these newcomers were substantive and influential, attracting a high number of citations. They moved the whole field along.
A scientist is part of what the Polish philosopher of science Ludwik Fleck called a "thought collective": a group of people exchanging ideas in a mutually comprehensible idiom. The group, suggested Fleck, inevitably develops a mind of its own, as the individuals in it converge on a way of communicating, thinking and feeling.
This makes scientific inquiry prone to the eternal rules of human social life: deference to the charismatic, herding towards majority opinion, punishment for deviance, and intense discomfort with admitting to error. Of course, such tendencies are precisely what the scientific method was invented to correct for, and over the long run, it does a good job of it. In the long run, however, we're all dead, quite possibly sooner than we would be if we hadn't been following a diet based on poor advice.
Ian Leslie, "The sugar conspiracy", Guardian, 2016-04-07.
April 7, 2016
February 29, 2016
QotD: Kerouac's On the Road as an unintentionally feminist novel
There's a story about a TV guide that summarized The Wizard of Oz as "Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets, then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again."
It's funny because it mistakes a tale of wonder and adventure for a crime spree. Jack Kerouac's On the Road is the opposite; a crime spree that gets mistaken for a tale of wonder and adventure.
On The Road is a terrible book about terrible people. Kerouac and his terrible friends drive across the US about seven zillion times for no particular reason, getting in car accidents and stealing stuff and screwing women whom they promise to marry and then don't.
But it's okay, because they are visionaries. Their vision is to use the words "holy", "ecstatic", and "angelic" at least three times to describe every object between Toledo and Bakersfield. They don't pass a barn, they pass a holy vision of a barn, a barn such as there must have been when the world was young, a barn whose angelic red and beatific white send them into mad ecstasies. They don't almost hit a cow, they almost hit a holy primordial cow, the cow of all the earth, the cow whose dreamlike ecstatic mooing brings them to the brink of a rebirth such as no one has ever known.
Even more interesting than their ease of transportation to me was their ease at getting jobs. This is so obvious to them it is left unspoken. Whenever their money runs out, be they in Truckee or Texas or Toledo, they just hop over to the nearest farm or factory or whatever, say "Job, please!" and are earning back their depleted savings in no time. This is really the crux of their way of life. They don't feel bound to any one place, because traveling isn't really a risk. Be it for a week or six months, there's always going to be work waiting for them when they need it. It doesn't matter that Dean has no college degree, or a criminal history a mile long, or is only going to be in town a couple of weeks. This just seems to be a background assumption. It is most obvious when it is violated; the times it takes an entire week to find a job, and they are complaining bitterly. Or the time the only jobs available are backbreaking farm labor, and so Jack moves on (of course abandoning the girl he is with at the time) to greener pastures that he knows are waiting.
Even more interesting than their ease of employment is their ease with women. This is unintentionally a feminist novel, in that once you read it (at least from a modern perspective) you end up realizing the vast cultural shift that had to (has to?) take place in order to protect women from people like the authors. Poor Galatea Dunkel seems to have been more of the rule than the exception – go find a pretty girl, tell her you love her, deflower her, then steal a car and drive off to do it to someone else, leaving her unmarriageable and maybe with a kid to support. Then the next time you're back in town, look her up, give her a fake apology in order to calm her down enough for her to be willing to have sex with you again, and repeat the entire process.
Scott Alexander, "Book Review: On The Road", Slate Star Codex, 2014-12-02.
February 27, 2016
QotD: "I am starting to think I was previously a little too charitable toward Marx"
I figured that Marx had just fallen into a similar trap. He'd probably made a few vague plans, like "Oh, decisions will be made by a committee of workers," and "Property will be held in common and consensus democracy will choose who gets what," and felt like the rest was just details. That's the sort of error I could at least sympathize with, despite its horrendous consequences.
But in fact Marx was philosophically opposed, as a matter of principle, to any planning about the structure of communist governments or economies. He would come out and say "It is irresponsible to talk about how communist governments and economies will work." He believed it was a scientific law, analogous to the laws of physics, that once capitalism was removed, a perfect communist government would form of its own accord. There might be some very light planning, a couple of discussions, but these would just be epiphenomena of the governing historical laws working themselves out. Just as, a dam having been removed, a river will eventually reach the sea somehow, so capitalism having been removed society will eventually reach a perfect state of freedom and cooperation.
Singer blames Hegel. Hegel viewed all human history as the World-Spirit trying to recognize and incarnate itself. As it overcomes its various confusions and false dichotomies, it advances into forms that more completely incarnate the World-Spirit and then moves onto the next problem. Finally, it ends with the World-Spirit completely incarnated – possibly in the form of early 19th century Prussia – and everything is great forever.
Marx famously exports Hegel's mysticism into a materialistic version where the World-Spirit operates upon class relations rather than the interconnectedness of all things, and where you don't come out and call it the World-Spirit – but he basically keeps the system intact. So once the World-Spirit resolves the dichotomy between Capitalist and Proletariat, then it can more completely incarnate itself and move on to the next problem. Except that this is the final problem (the proof of this is trivial and is left as exercise for the reader) so the World-Spirit becomes fully incarnate and everything is great forever. And you want to plan for how that should happen? Are you saying you know better than the World-Spirit, Comrade?
I am starting to think I was previously a little too charitable toward Marx. My objections were of the sort "You didn't really consider the idea of welfare capitalism with a social safety net" or "communist society is very difficult to implement in principle," whereas they should have looked more like "You are basically just telling us to destroy all of the institutions that sustain human civilization and trust that what is baaaasically a giant planet-sized ghost will make sure everything works out."
Scott Alexander, "Book Review: Singer on Marx", Slate Star Codex, 2014-09-13.
February 19, 2016
QotD: Art, taste, and judgment
All of us, if we are not merely children or possessed of childlike tastes, recall works that we had to work to learn to love, such as obtuse poems which has to be explained before they were beautiful, words of archaic or foreign cant, or novels referring to experiences in life we were too young, on first reading, to recognize or know. Even science fiction and fantasy has some introductory learning that needs be done, a certain grasp of the scientific world view or the conventions of fantastic genre that must be gained, before the work is loveable. The only art I know that has no introductory effort at all is comic books, but even they, in recent years, now require introduction, since no one unaware of the decades of continuity can simply pick up a comic book and read it with pleasure: they are written for adults, these days, not kids, and adults expect and are expected to try harder to get into the work before getting something out of it.
The reason why modern art can pass for art is that the Tailors of the Emperor's New Clothes can claim, and the claim cannot be dismissed unexamined, that modern art merely is has a steeper learning curve than real art. Once you get all the in-jokes and palindromes and Irish and Classical references in James Joyce (so the Tailors say) you can read ULYSSES with the same pleasure that a student, once he learns Latin, reads Virgil. And as long as you are in sympathy with the effort at destruction and deconstruction, this modern art has the same fascination as watching a wrecking crew tear down a fair and delicate antique fane with fretted colonnades and an architrave of flowing figures recalling forgotten wars between giants and gods. What child will not cheer when he sees a wrecking ball crash through the marble and stained glass of old and unwanted beauty? How he will clap when the dynamite goes off, and squeal, and hold his ears! I am not being sarcastic: there is something impressive in such acts.
Let us add a second observation: great novels and great paintings, symphonies, even great comic books, are ones that reward a second rereading or heeding or viewing. A book is something you read once and enjoy and throw away. A good book is one you read twice, and get something out of it a second time. A great book is one that has the power to make you fall in love, and each time you reread it, it is as new and fresh as Springtime, and you see some new nuance in it, the same way you see more beauty each time you see your wife of many years, and will forever, no matter how many years you see her face. (Those of you who are not in love, or not happily married, or who have never read a truly great book, will not know whereof I speak. Alas, I cannot describe the colors of a sunrise to a man born blind.)
Let us assume that there is no beauty in art, no objective rules. If that were so, how do we explain the two observations noted above, first, that some art must be learned before it is loved, and second, that some art rewards additional scrutiny indefinitely, a fountainhead that never runs dry. The explanation that the learning is not learning but merely acclamation, an Eskimo learning to tolerate the tropics, a Bushman growing to enjoy the snow, would make sense if and only if any art or rubbish would reward equal study with equal pleasure.
If the pleasure I get out of a work of art I had to grow and learn to like was merely due to me and my tastes, and the learning was not learning at all, but merely an adjustment of taste from one arbitrary genre convention to another, then the outcome or result could not differ from artwork to artwork, as long as I were the same.
If I can see more rich detail each time I reread Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, and if indeed there are beauties that pierce like swords, and if this were due to me and only to me, and not due to something in the work, I should be able to study a pile of rocks besmirched with stains of oil and offal in a rubble heap, and with the same passage of time and effort, force myself to see equal beauty within.
But I cannot, nor can any man. Therefore the sublime is not just in me the observer; logically, it must be in the thing observed. There must be something really there.
If this argument satisfies, it tells us, with the clarity of a Deist argument, that there is an objective beauty in the world, but not what it is.
As in theological argument, in aesthetics we can only know more of the beauty of the universe if it comes to us in the artistic equivalent of revelation. We have to look at beauty in nature and see what is there, and what its rules are, before we look at beauty in human handiwork.
John C. Wright, "Supermanity and Dehumanity (Complete)", John C. Wright's Journal, 2014-12-13.
December 23, 2015
Really That Good: A CHRISTMAS STORY
Published on 22 Dec 2015
Welcome to a NEW kind of film-criticism series, built around the radical premise that just because "everyone knows" a movie is a classic doesn't mean it stops being worth a deeper look.
At first, A CHRISTMAS STORY was a small 1983 movie that not a lot of people saw. But within a few years, regular Seasonal TV replays had turned it into a counter-culture staple – an All-American Christmas Movie that was *just* sly and jaded enough to be the "cool" alternative to more saccharine Holiday fare. Today, it's celebrated as an unironic generational classic on par with CHARLIE BROWN, THE GRINCH or IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE.
But does it deserve to be? The word "overrated" may as well have been invented to describe seasonal family-favorites we feel duty-bound to revisit on a yearly basis. That doesn't necessarily mean that the story of Ralphie and his Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle BB gun with a compass in the stock and a thing which tells time isn't a good movie… but does it belong among the *great* movies?
This Christmas, thousands of people will watch Ralphie, Randy, Mom and The Old Man's adventures – many as part of the now-ubiquitous 24-hour marathon. But before you do, maybe pull up a chair and listen as we explore whether or not A CHRISTMAS STORY is… REALLY THAT GOOD.
H/T to Victor for the link.
QotD: The gamekeeper
Although written many years ago, Lady Chatterley's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press, and this pictorial account of the day-to-day life of an English gamekeeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor minded readers, as it contains many passages on pheasant-raising, the apprehending of poachers, ways to control vermin, and other chores and duties of the professional gamekeeper.
Unfortunately, one is obliged to wade through many pages of extraneous material in order to discover and savour those sidelights on the management of a midland shooting estate, and in this reviewer's opinion the book cannot take the place of J. R. Miller's Practical Gamekeeping.
Ed Zern, Field and Stream, 1959-11. (via BookTryst)
December 19, 2015
Comparing Starship Troopers to Starship Troopers
Jason Fuesting compares Robert Heinlein's novel with Paul Verhoeven's movie "adaptation" (scare quotes here because Verhoeven never read more than the first two chapters of the book). I've never seen the movie, but the book is one of my favourites.
Taken in a vacuum, the film itself is passable for its time. Despite being released in November, the film clearly fits the summer action film niche and summer action films are not frequently known for in-depth intellectual dialog or for exceptional acting. Verhoeven's work does not disappoint that expectation in the least. What effort is evident in the film remains focused primarily on either the fight scenes, particularly in special effects and explosions, or in finding ways to justify having the actresses expose some amount of skin in some form or fashion as frequently as possible. As such, Verhoeven's film comes off not too dissimilarly from what one might expect of a Michael Bay film, except less subtle in every way.
Cinematography, editing, and score were not exceptional, but quite passable. The film remained fast paced and for multiple scenes camera placement complimented the special effects and other elements quite well. The effects themselves were as I remembered, great for the time period. As far as the individual components of the film in terms of film making are concerned, outside of the acting, the film is quite well done. As for the acting, what I remembered as campy and otherwise forgettable as a teen turned out to be far worse than I remembered.
When one steps back out of the vacuum, the film ultimately falls apart entirely on writing. Many would likely ponder how a summer action movie that has managed to succeed on the other points could ultimately be deemed a failure based solely off a feature movies of its kind almost universally ignore. For Heinlein fans, the film is unequivocally a thumb in the eye. From that perspective, the director took the author's creation, fed just enough of it through a sausage grinder to get the flavor out, mixed in his own recipe of inanity, and laid out the resulting abomination in precisely the exact opposite direction. For those not particularly attached to Heinlein's novel but still fans of decent writing, a multitude of plot holes and grave inconsistency errors abound, all of which were introduced by the writers meddling in Heinlein's construct like children run amok.
Amok is sadly an understatement. The film and the book are two wholly different entities. A Joking comment along the lines of the script used by Verhoeven being the result of the soulless Hollywood machine itself parodied in Robert Altman's 1992 film The Player might be closer to the truth. Simply put, Verhoeven's script shares names with the book.
Ultimately, the book's message is one that stresses responsibility, personal, to one's family, and to one's nation. Heinlein repeatedly highlights how military service is not easy, that life is a lot harder than we think it is when we're young, how war is not the cool thing most children believe. Verhoeven steadfastly ignores every bit of that and takes every point Heinlein made and twisting it to its opposite: war is great, service is so easy any idiot can do it, the military is filled with unthinking robotic idiots and evil right-wing fascists, and the only people who are held responsible are the ones who get caught without an excuse. Instead of a story that is more or less a post-hoc biography of a soldier, complete with his regrets, Verhoeven's adaptation is little more than modern actors in remade Nazi uniforms acting out nonsense between scenes further adapted from Nazi propaganda films. Verhoeven is so over-the-top in his use of Nazi imagery and defacing the concept of patriotism that his attempted smear against the right-wing gets lost in the noise.
The film is offensive on multiple levels. First, as a veteran, the book is easily realistic science-fiction that carries multiple very pertinent messages and warnings, especially in today's society. Many of these were messages I needed to hear when I was younger, but I had neither the maturity nor the experience to truly understand at the time. Second, as an author, I am utterly horrified at the wholesale gutting the film makers and their writers gleefully engaged in and the complete mockery of their creation. The idea that one of my prospective works could receive similar treatment sickens me. Third, as a Conservative leaning libertarian, Verhoeven's film lampoons ideas central to the survival of any state, left leaning or right, and does so in such a poor fashion that it fails at being even amateur-level propaganda. Admittedly, hyperbole is a valid tool; however, when using hyperbole one must ensure both that one's point is valid and that the use of hyperbole does not destroy your message. Verhoeven fails on both accounts.
Update, 20 December: Just realized I hadn't included the original link to this review. My belated apologies to Jason Fuesting and Cedar Sanderson for the oversight.
December 18, 2015
Camille Paglia on "Feminist trouble"
In Spiked, Camille Paglia talks to Ella Whelan:
It's doubtful whether Camille Paglia – cultural critic, academic and the author of several acclaimed books including, most recently, Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars – has ever pulled a punch. Since she burst on to the cultural scene in the 1990s, following the publication of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson – as she put it, the 'most X-rated academic book ever written' – Paglia has been a trenchant, principled voice in the Culture Wars, attacking, with one hand, the anti-sex illiberalism of her feminist peers, while, with the other, laying waste to the trendy, pomo relativism infecting the academy.
Above all, Paglia, who some have called the anti-feminist feminist, has remained a staunch defender of individual freedom. She has argued against laws prohibiting pornography, drugs and abortion. And, when political correctness was cutting a swathe through a host of institutions during the 1990s, she stood firmly on the side of free speech. So, what does she make of the political and cultural state of feminism today? What does she think of the revival of anti-sex sentiment among young feminists, their obsession with policing language, and their wholehearted embrace of victimhood? As spiked's Ella Whelan discovered, Paglia's convictions burn as brightly as ever…
December 12, 2015
The cargo cult of modern art
Richard Bledsoe on the similarities between the cargo cults of Pacific Islanders during and after the Second World War and the modern art scene:
Much of establishment contemporary art has become an inverted cargo cult.
The phenomenon of the cargo cult originally was observed when the primitive tribal societies of the South Pacific encountered the advanced cultures of the West. It reached a pitch of religious fervor after World War II.
The industrial manufactured items of the newcomers amazed the remote villagers of islands like New Guinea and Tanna. The strangers from over the sea brought with them riches in the form of machines and goods — airplanes, tools, medicines, canned food, radios and the like — made from materials incomprehensible to what were practically Stone Age people. The tribes decided surely such wonderful items must be made by the gods.
As battles raged in the Pacific, the indigenous populations observed the soldiers at work: marching around in uniforms, clearing runways, talking on radios. In response the planes arrived, seemingly from heaven, bringing to the islands the massive quantities of materials needed for the war effort. To the natives who got to share some of the magical items, this treasure — the technological output of developed nations — came to be referred to collectively by the pidgin word cargo.
But when the war ended, the soldiers left. The flow of magic cargo ceased. The tribesmen had lost access to the gifts from the gods.
The abandoned natives developed a plan to get back into divine favor. Having no frame of reference for the ways of the modern world, they interpreted the activities of construction and communications the visitors performed as forms of ritual. The tribesmen would reenact the rites they had seen the foreigners perform, recreate their ceremonial objects. This would please the gods, who would start delivering the cargo again — but this time, to the natives.
The islanders designed outfits based on military uniforms. They drilled in cadence, carrying rifles of bamboo. They built wooden aerials, constructed mock radios, clearing landing strips in the jungle, placed decoy planes of straw on them. And waited.
To our rational minds this is preposterous. We understand the uselessness of evoking the facade of a machine without the necessary functionalities being incorporated into it. What matters is the inner workings, not the appearance.
And yet, a form of this magical thinking has infected contemporary art. The subservience of art to political issues derails the purpose of the artist. The prevalent dogma interferes with the discovery of a personal artistic vision. So contemporary artists attempt to imitate their way into a valid artistic experience.
In a stunning reversal, in our advanced technological society, artists uncomprehendingly recreate inferior approximations, parodying the objects and gestures of the past and the primitive, trying in vain to summon the sense of awe and wholeness present in the art of bygone ages. By mimicking and mocking the outer forms of the originators, the artists hope the gods will arrive bearing their eternal gifts — that these snotty knock offs will also rise to the level of art.


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