Monthly Archives: April 2023

On the aesthetic relation of art to reality

Posted on by under Aesthetics, Art and Ideology, Art and social life, astronomy, Creativity, Objective reality

NGC 1333: Stellar Nursery in Perseus

‘Let art be content with its lofty, splendid mission of being a substitute for reality in case of its absence, and of being a textbook of life for man. Reality stands higher than dreams, and essential purpose stands higher than fantastic claims.’

N.G. Chernyshevsky, ‘The Aesthetic Relation of Art to Reality’, MA thesis, 1855, in Selected Philosophical Essays, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1953, 379

Australia’s masters speak their ‘truth’

Posted on by under Capitalism, United States capitalist class, Western supremacism, White supremacism

‘Neither the United States of America nor the world community of nations can tolerate deliberate deception and offensive threats on the part of any nation, large or small.’ (Bush [supposedly] quoting Kennedy)

With thanks to Desultory Heroics: https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/16905958/posts/4659794241