That’s the ideal, right? How come so many artists do the same thing over and over, though, and are praised for it? Bodies of work like On Kawara’s really frustrate me. I’d like to see an artist reinvent their own *need to make art in their medium* with every work. I don’t know if it’s possible.

I mean, case in point re: the frustration, right here

Not that it’s not laudable to take a stand against AI art, but…

On the other hand, Bishop Berkeley did apparently say, about hell, “A man who believes in no future state would act a foolish part in being honest. For what reason is there why such a one would postpone his own private interest or pleasure to the doing his duty?” Is that so far from Musk?

I guess this is where things like snark have to come in and prove their value. That and taking advantage of the idea that if a portion of the right even nominally still follows Christian beliefs, they may retain the ability to be morally horrified by actually vastly immoral things. Maybe.

ALMANAC of MANCALA
HEPTAGON shaped PATHOGEN
COMPILE your POLEMIC…

It’s also not compartmentalization, which is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at *different* times. What Fitzgerald wants, I think, is to cure a compulsion I at least suffer from a lot: to fit everything into one system. He wants contradictions to stop being emotionally unbearable.

Descartes at least had the decency to admit that what rationalism ultimately led him to was God

If you’re a rationalist and racial equality (among other things) isn’t among your *axioms*, then you need to seriously rethink your axioms. If you can’t do that, then you need to seriously rethink *having axioms* in the first place.

In 2010, Newsom released “Go Long”, a song that utterly, and justifiably, mocks the patriarchy (as well as, almost incidentally, the Bob Dylan of “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands”).

Grimes “kind of like[s] the patriarchy.”

Please make this make sense!

(The 80-year gap between Mallarmé and Babitz being emblematic of the long, long commandeering of decadence by dudes, I suppose)

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Reminds me of Mallarmé: “A pale sky, above the world that is ending through decrepitude, going perhaps to pass away with the clouds; shreds of worn-out purple of the sunsets wash off their colour in a river sleeping on the horizon, submerged with rays and water.”

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“I was impatient with ordinary sunsets…” Wow, @rachellllyon.bsky.social!

I thought at first that this was talking about Warren Ellis from Nick Cave’s band and that I could use it for the salubrious effect of further invalidating Cave’s choices

(No shade on Nick Cave the visual artist intended)