‘What is a man?’ asks Shakespeare’s Hamlet ‘if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more’.
Compare to Tennysson’s Ulysses who ‘mete[s] and dole[s] unqeual laws unto a savage race, that hoard, and sleep, and feed, and no not [him]’. Obviously not a coincidence and discussed […]

Whether something is art or can be defined as ‘art’ or has artistic value is questionable and supposedly relative. It seems to me that the question of ‘artistic value’ is an economic and historical one. We could call this the historoeconomic theory of art (or the capitalist’s valuation of art).
An artwork always has an economic […]

Using our eyes and brains and senses we see a skewed and highly individualized version of the world. As of this moment there are roughly 6.65 billion realities (based on the human population and not taking into account animals, our imagination, dreams and dissociative identities). 6.65 billion versions of today, of our time, of this […]

An interesting linguistic phenomenon has been occurring at schools in Baltimore: the development of a gender-neutral third-person pronoun. The neologism is the pronoun Yo. It can apparently be used to describe both a he and a she. For example I could use the sentence ‘Yo reads my blog‘ to mean, ‘She reads my blog’, but […]

The literature of stage directions is an interesting, and mostly disregarded, subject. Brecht, the German playwright, was perhaps the only person to make his actors say his stage directions out loud, in many ways to distance (or ‘alienate’) the performers from the play and setting. In all other circumstances, stage directions are a soft or […]

Blog frequency is a thought going through many heads consciously and unconsciously. How often should one blog, and how much should one blog. Intrinsically it seems that frequent blogging on a daily basis is good and blogging sporadically is bad.
Too much blogging is not good either. If I blogged every minute my life would suddenly […]