Nietzsche and the Artist

Art and nothing but art! It is the great means of making life possible, the great seduction to life, the great stimulant of life.
The Will to Power by Nietzsche.

In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche gave a neat description of his view of man as the unification of the two poles of creature and creator (Nietzsche, 1973, p.155). This complemented the twin tendencies of his writings to emphasize, on the ...

 
continue... 20 January 2011 // Literature
 
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strenght!

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strenght!

1984 by George Orwell. Part Three excerpted from the book and clips from films

p.234

"Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It ...

 
continue... 07 January 2011 // Literature, Movies
 
Eternal Embrace

Eternal Embrace

In February 2007, archaeologists working at a site outside Mantua (Italy), 25 miles south of Verona, unearthed a pair of skeletons dating from the Neolithic period.

The ...

 
continue... 13 December 2010 // Photography
 
Perpetual Time

Perpetual Time

'You are the sun. The sun doesn't move, this is what it does. You are the Earth. The Earth is here for a start, and ...

 
continue... 08 November 2010 // Movies
 
The language of Madness

The language of Madness

...We exist within the context of a language that is our own invention but which controls us in so far as we have lost sight ...

 
continue... 04 November 2010 // Literature
 

 
continue... 10 September 2010 // Art
 

Lost Bliss

"The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die? In the rusk of events I kept thinking about this in the back of ...

 
continue... 05 September 2010 // Literature
 
 
continue... 03 September 2010 // Photography
 
 
 
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