from Poetry:
…in “The Origin of the Work of Art,” he issues a particular invitation to poets, arguing that poetry is in some way the model for all other art forms, and the exemplary activity of human beings. The poet, he writes, “uses the word—not, however, like ordinary speakers and writers who have to use them [...]

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Let the commoners tell you, while I shall eat cake…

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I don’t think aesthetics and ethics can be decoupled in any meaningful way. It isn’t about parasitism, nor is it about using one to “cover” for the other… it isn’t really even about dependence (the term I used earlier) because that implies the possibility of the decoupling I believe impossible. Dependence in this context is [...]

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I have real trouble with the assertion of a separation between ethics and aesthetics that doesn’t recognize their essential co-dependence. The nature of the relationship can (and should) change… I see it as a pair of opposing forces that swing in vast, strange shapes like an imbalanced pair of planets whose mass changes as one [...]

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