Virginia Woolf on language
Posted under: *duration:normal, philosophical trenches
Tags: language, literature, meaning, Virginia Woolf, words, writing
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Beauty and consolation: Richard Rorty
Posted under: **SPOTLIGHT**, *duration:long, art surpasses reality once again, philosophical trenches
Tags: aesthetics, beauty, literature, morality, philosophy, Richard Rorty, Wim Kayzer
(parts in English, parts in Dutch)
Paper to computer…
Posted under: *duration:normal, art surpasses reality once again, tech tension
Tags: literature
R.I.P. David Foster Wallace
Posted under: *duration:long, art surpasses reality once again, heroes don't come cheap
Tags: David Foster Wallace, death, literature, necrology
(David Foster Wallace interview starts at 23:15)
I’ve been planning to make this post for the great American writer David Foster Wallace in my “heroes don’t come cheap” section for some time now, but today I heard David Foster Wallace has taken his life some days ago. A great and tragic life, he suffered severely from depression. I discovered David Foster Wallace one day I was bored stiff, and didn’t want to linger around my house all day, so I decided to get out and headed a direction and ended up at a second hand store. I was kindy woosy that day, wandering around instinctively. By pure luck a book (amongst thousands of books) caught my attention: “The system of the Broom” (Dutch edition) glimpsed in the corner of my eye. I was reading Wittgenstein at that time, and I immediately knew it probably referred to his language construction-models. I took the second-hand book, looked inside for the price. 4 euros is a bit of an amount for a second hand book I never heard of. However I never hesitated and bought it in an instant. Immediately after reading it I fell in love with Wallaces marvelous use of language and subtle proze about human language and interaction and communication. His sharp remarks on post-modern society, and lonesome critique on ‘Irony’ as something that really doesn’t do a lot of good in communication between people, made him an great inspiration for my art practice. I dare say that his work changed my life… for the better.
(this week this post will be up to commemorate DFW, also see previous posts of David Foster Wallace.
David Foster Wallace: Faillure
Posted under: art surpasses reality once again
Tags: author, David Foster Wallace, failure, literature
David Foster Wallace: consider the lobster
Posted under: **SPOTLIGHT**, art surpasses reality once again
Tags: author, David Foster Wallace, literature
