The System Project and Why One Image
The System Project and Why Only One Image This is, by most accounts, a weird one. I have only painted the same image over and over for about […]
POPc as a Lab for the Creation of Thought
Sitting down and having a conversation. Slowly and thoroughly examining one’s view, responding to the Resident Philosopher’s prodding questions, raised eyebrows. What does it accomplish? It accomplishes the construction of […]
Artists, philosophers, and low-level gangsters
Artists, Philosophers & Low-Level Gangsters. Photo from NYPost Dec. 15, 2016 (photo by Gregory Mango) Members of he Genovese Organized Crime Family, including Salvatore DeMeo (far right). […]
Britney and The Donald
Do Women Want Sex? (as much as men) Britney Spears wants you to think that she thinks so, but her video isn’t actually saying that at all. […]
POPc Saves the World: The Art of the Conversation
POPc can save the world: The Art of the Conversation Philosophers’ Ontological Party club. Not really a club, in the way of membership dues and a meeting house. More of […]
Taking POPc to Vietnam
A great doc about #Vietnam though it's really just about a street in Saigon. Faces You Forget: Nights Out in Saigon https://t.co/3h91yUBbjL — talkPOPc (@talkPOPc) May 15, 2016 No […]
Interview with Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipur
3.2 Post 1979 Iran: Interview with Shahrnush Parsipur (Excerpt from my book Cover Up the Dirty Parts, 2010; interview in 2009) […]
Ai WeiWei and the Syrian Boy Reenactment: The Death of Meaning
There’s been a lot of mainstream, ogling coverage this last week of Ai WeiWei’s re-enactment photo of the little refugee boy drowned and washed up on the bank. It […]
My Father’s Death
Much has been written about death. A great deal of literature and art uses death as the crescendo, the fulcrum point of the story, the big event in the lives […]
Those Dumb Artists Can’t Talk about their Work
The following excerpt is from “Those Dumb Artists: Amnesiacs, Artists, and Other Idiots” by Dena Shottenkirk and Anjan Chatterjee, published in Structural Analysis (NY; Nova Science Publishers, 2009) Amnesiacs, […]
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