Nietzsche
has seen Nihilism as a necessity and not just a statement to endorse ‘Transvaluation
of all values’, he believed in Nihilism as a pure form of re-birth of
thought and its existence and relevance in the contemporary world. For me,
Nietzsche is ‘The Renaissance’, the thoughts, the aphorisms and
he didn't mince words to express them with alacrity…
Western
Civilization: Nietzsche questioned the Western Civilization, its validity
and perspective towards society. The conventional western thought process was
in danger, at least academically. The dogma set up by the western civilization
was critically exposed by Nietzsche. Nietzsche is one of the most earliest and
important figures who challenged the western civilization, who predicted the
future of society under western civilization, how Europe might
sulk and importantly as I comprehend – he predicted the desperate need for a
new civilization which departs from the dogma of western civilization and which
recognizes the spirit of a man.
Relevance: Nietzsche
is more relevant today than any other period in the history. When Liberalism
has prostituted itself to the left, when Marxism is being shown as an
alternative to the current failures of nations, when the western code of belief
takes higher moral ground and when righteousness gets escaped without any
questioning. It’s the Nietzschean thought which confronts the above theologies
which has the ability smother the individual with morality and dogmatic values.
“I
Am Not a Man, I Am Dynamite!” he said in his last work ‘Ecce Homo‘.
Yes, Nietzsche is dynamite, the dynamite which can destroy the values laid by
phonies, the dynamite which forces us to ask questions, which in turn demands
answers, the dynamite – whose aim is to destroy the sanctity of invalidated
ideas, to create a foe when ideologies shamelessly celebrate for having no
enemies. The self righteousness of this dynamite is the hope for future.
How
Capitalism Can Save Art Camille Paglia on why a new generation
has chosen iPhones and other glittering gadgets as its canvas October
5, 2012, 7:58 p.m. ET By CAMILLE
PAGLIA
Does
art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are
thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for
nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting
or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the
early 1970s. Yet work of bold originality and stunning beauty continues to be
done in architecture, a frankly commercial field…
Thus
we live in a strange and contradictory culture, where the most talented college
students are ideologically indoctrinated with contempt for the economic system
that made their freedom, comforts and privileges possible. In the realm of arts
and letters, religion is dismissed as reactionary and unhip. The spiritual language
even of major abstract artists like Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock and Mark
Rothko is ignored or suppressed. Thus young artists have been betrayed and
stunted by their elders before their careers have even begun. Is it any wonder
that our fine arts have become a wasteland?
New
Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies Rick
Dolphijn and Iris van der Tuin ii. cartographies > 6. pushing dualism to
an extreme
Feminist theory has
to push sexual difference as an ordinary dualism to an extreme precisely so as
to push sexual difference to the limit. A sexual difference according to which
women are worth-less-than men, to speak with Braidotti, has to be pushed to an
extreme so as to release sexual difference as that which is virtual. This is
precisely how we should read Simone de Beauvoir’s conclusion to The
Second Sex, which indeed thinks through the emancipation of humanity in its
most radical form. After a full description of the dialectic of sex (a dualism
structured by a negative relationality), she concludes that: “new carnal and
affective relations of which we cannot conceive will be born between the sexes”
(de Beauvoir [1949] 2010, 765). It is precisely by thinking through sexual
difference to its remotest aspirations, thus alluding to difference structured
by an affirmative relationality, that de Beauvoir came to produce the
revolution in thought that has made her famous (and infamous), for constituting
feminism as a rewriting of modernity—that is, feminism-as-differing. de Beauvoir
exemplifies a new materialist take on difference, since by traversing the
(sexual) dualism structuring modernist thought, modernity comes to be rewritten
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