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Monday, October 26, 2009
The Keys Enigma
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Thursday September 24, 2009
Who Knows
What Evil Lurks…
The brain-in-a-jar on the cover of the new Pearl Jam album "Backspacer" (previous two entries) is apparently there because of a song on the album, "Unthought Known"–
"All the thoughts you never see
You are always thinking
Brain is wide, the brain is deep
Oh, are you sinking?"
The song title is from a book, The Shadow of the Object (Columbia U. Press, 1987), by psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas.
The "unthought known" phrase has been quoted widely by second-rate psychologizers and by some not so second-rate. Their lucubrations suggest that sinking brain-worshippers should seek a…
The couch is from a 2002 exhibit
at London's White Cube gallery.
at London's White Cube gallery.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Wednesday September 23, 2009
Backspacing
Some background for the images in the previous entry's album cover:
See PearlJamEvolution.com, Aug. 3, 2009, and Aug. 6, 2009.
The brain image is apparently based on a photo at Flickr.
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Monday September 21, 2009
Keys
A Google search for "Das Scheinen," a very rough translation into Heidegger's German of "The Shining," leads to a song. A search for the English version of the song leads to a site with a sidebar advertising Pearl Jam's new (Sept. 20) album "Backspacer."
Packaging:
Happy birthday,
Stephen King.
Background:
Yesterday's entries
and the plot of
L'Engle's classic
A Wrinkle in Time.
(See this journal's entries
for March 2008.)
The Pearl Jam album cover art
is of particular interest in light
of King's story "Apt Pupil" and
of Katherine Neville's remark
"Nine is a very powerful
Nordic number."
Those who prefer more sophisticated
aesthetic theory may click on the
following keys:
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