‘The Dictator’ (2012) by Sacha Baron-Cohen plays on the fact that kitsch is used by dictators and fundamentalists to redefine our world. Zennie Abraham/Flickr, CC BY-ND What is the predominant aesthetic of the twenty-first century? According to sociology professors Ruth Holliday and Tracey Potts, “we are on the point of drowning in kitsch. A casual ...
Clamdigger 1935 by Edward Hopper. Courtesy Sharon Mollerus/Flickr via Aeon Magazine In 1840, Edgar Allan Poe described the ‘mad energy’ of an ageing man who roved the streets of London from dusk till dawn. His excruciating despair could be temporarily relieved only by immersing himself in a tumultuous throng of city-dwellers. ‘He refuses to be alone,’ Poe wrote. ...
Patricia & Howard Farber Collection, New York ©Archive Raúl Martínez “Rosas y Estrellas” (“Roses and Stars”) by Raúl Martínez depicts 19th-century Cuban revolutionary José Martí (center) flanked by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, with Latin American freedom fighters including Simón Bolívar behind them. Those last few turbulent years, it's as if we don't have feelings ...
The Thinking Loop A Courtesy of IBM Design The irresistible urge to reflect - to systemically wail, to voice out the uneasily unutterable, to extemporize one's unbearable existential trite - basically emanates from one's frustration. One's frustration apropos of the burden of an imposed living, an inexplicably ubiquitous phenomenon of being tasked with a mission - ...
Solitude by Voloshenko on deviantArt Our society rewards social behavior while ignoring the positive effects of time spent alone. On April 14, 1934, Richard Byrd went out for his daily walk. The air was the usual temperature: minus 57 degrees Fahrenheit. He stepped steadily through the drifts of snow, making his rounds. And then he paused to listen. Nothing. He attended, ...
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