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evil’s event horizon
I. To Hell With It Coming from a religious background largely influenced by Buddhism in recent years, the concept of an eternal hell has been, for me, one of the most difficult to swallow during my recent return to my childhood Christian faith (albeit via the Eastern Orthodox Church, rather than the Catholic Church I... »
the desultory results of theavantguardian logo competition\/\/the candidates
We have results! For the logo competition we’ve been blathering about for the last month or so. Please admire. What follows is a list IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER of the logos we received. We would like you to admire them, comment on them, hold them, love them, and decide amongst yourselves. We will be... »
compassion for animals \/\/ ?
Vladimir Mayakovsky is perhaps best known nowadays in the U.S. for two things: First, he “taught” Frank O’Hara to speak to the sun. The conceit of O’Hara’s great poem “A True Account of Talking to the Sun on Fire Island” is borrowed from Mayakovsky’s “An Extraordinary Adventure Which Befell Vladimir Mayakovsky in a Summer... »
commodity fetishism gone right \/\/ banzai!!!!! | brooklyn
These days, Brooklyn is the destination where art comes to be born and to die. After all, this is still New York City, the global center for commercial art distribution. But beyond that, Brooklyn is home to the overwhelming majority of studios, ateliers, and actual artists in New York City. Soho and Chelsea obviously... »
commodity fetishism gone right \/\/ alexander mcqueen, meatpacking district
February 11, 2010: Beneath the flurries of the worst blizzard to hit the northeastern United States in over a decade, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week kicks off in New York City. The crowds flock to the tents of Bryant Park to witness some of the most prominent designers in the world unveil their Fall-Winter... »
color theory \/\/ and bad writing
Poets care a great deal about color. They’re artists in black and white, but they refer to color. The words for color, the associations they call up in the reader’s mind and their music, have fascinated poets for centuries. Goethe went so far as to write a scientifically-ridiculed theory of color, completely ignoring its... »
the first tale from fishmammal state \/\/ be a hater in action
Hello readers, it’s been a while. I’ve mentioned that I’m a student, a professional book nerd. Well, for this piece I want to be more specific (well, kinda). I’m a student and employee (because I’m a TA) at Fishmammal State University (which is NOT FSU, it’s a northern US coastal school). So, because it’s a university, by... »
what comes out of oneself defiles oneself
The Tower of Babel, we are told, was a monument to mankind's hubris in thinking Heaven could be taken by an act of architecture. In a mythical age devoid of scientific philosophy, the Tower of Babel was what passed in that time for the Ontological Argument, a formal proof attempting to locate God at... »
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