Fickle Ears

Evidently this has been making the rounds: Rittenhouse When I look at this image, I see a concept made perfectly transparent and rendere...

( previously ) Whereas Jean makes much of the elements of craft, technique, proven methods which make the artist a worker in a working wo...

Christopher Lasch The Minimal Self (1984) Commodities are produced for immediate consumption. ... They wear out even if they are not use...

Jean Cassou "The Nostalgia for a Métier" in Art History: An Anthology of Modern Criticism (1963) ed. Wylie Sypher pp. 399-40...

Freud The Ego and the Id (orig. 1923) trans. Joan Riviere, ed. James Strachey I think we shall gain a great deal by following the sugg...

LeRoi Jones Blues People (1963) For a Westerner to say that the Wagnerian tenor's voice is "better" than the African singe...

Harry Partch Genesis of a Music (1974, orig. 1949) For the essentially vocal and verbal music of the individual—a Monophonic concept—the...

Richard Sennett The Conscience of the Eye (1990) I often saw this graffiti [of the New York subways] in my mind's eye when I listen...

E.O. Wilson Consilience (1998) The explanation for the rarity of great beauty may be (and I continue to speculate) the behavioral phenome...

William Stephenson The Play Theory of Mass Communication (1987 edition) (orig. 1967) 1. Play is distinguishable from work. Play is dis...

William Stephenson The Play Theory of Mass Communication (1987 edition) (orig. 1967) The child at play, Freud writes, is like a poet; b...

William Stephenson The Play Theory of Mass Communication (1987 edition) (orig. 1967) Parts of this book are veritably littered with sig...

William Stephenson The Play Theory of Mass Communication (1987 edition) (orig. 1967) from the introduction by Brian Sutton-Smith (1987)...

Ericsson and Pool Peak (2016) Francesca Happé and Pedro Vital, two researchers at King's College London, compared autistic children w...

Steven Mithen The Singing Neanderthals (2006) The most significant survival of 'Hmmmmm' [Neanderthal communication that was ...

Gerald Graff "The Myth of Postmodern Breakthrough" (orig. 1979) in Critical Essays on American Postmodernism (1994) ed. Stanle...

from A PSYCHOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE CONTENT OF MUSIC Roger J. Watt and Roisin L. Ash 4th European Conference on Philosophy and Psych...

When Yogi Berra plugged disability insurance, he could just as well have been talking about art: When you don't have it, that's whe...

A quick and bloggy addendum on looking for edification in all the wrong online places: As I continue to trawl/troll Blogspot for distant v...

Marshall McLuhan Understanding Media (1964) MIT Press edition (1994) In terms of the industrial age, it can be pointed out that the dif...

Marshall McLuhan "Woman in a Mirror" pp. 80-81 in The Mechanical Bride (2002 Gingko Press edition) [orig. 1951] This ad employ...

Marshall McLuhan "The Corpse as Still Life" pp. 104-106 in The Mechanical Bride (2002 Gingko Press edition) [orig. 1951] A gen...

The first time I heard or read the word "blog" was when I over-heard it on the radio while trying to work on something else. Some ...