‘Impressionistic Fuss’ The rejection of Impressionism, which the Italian painters were keen to emphasise, held little weight for Lewis: he maintained that Futurism, with its naïve enthusiasm for machinery and the 'modern', merely parodied Wilde and Gissing, being a “sensational and sentimental mixture of the aesthete of 1890 and the realist of 1870”. Giacomo …
Spencer’s A System of Synthetic Philosophy was the primary concentration of his writing efforts starting in the 1850s. In 1858, drawing on the idea of the ‘New Reformation’ inspired by his time as an editor at the Leader, he began laying out its plan. “At the beginning of 1858, Spencer drew up a scheme for A System …
Religious Engineering and the Process Church As discussed in Part I, William Sims Bainbridge picked up the term religious engineering from the Process Church of the Final Judgment, a “Satanic cult,” as he describes it, which he studied up close between 1970 and 1976, doing fieldwork toward his eventual PhD in Sociology from Harvard. In …
Part 2: A Dialogue on Order and Justice between Aristotle and Huntington Contrasting Huntington's Political Order to Aristotle’s on regimes. Samuel P. Huntington and Aristotle provide two distinct yet insightful frameworks for understanding political systems. While Huntington’s Political Order in Changing Societies focuses on institutional strength as a determinant of political stability, Aristotle’s Politics introduces …
Part 2: Cultural-Linguistic Analysis, Modern Frameworks, and Conclusion Cultural-Linguistic Analysis The interpretive challenge posed by ancient Greek tragedy extends far beyond the mere translation of words and phrases. As we encounter terms like hybris, hamartia, and katharsis, we confront not just linguistic but deeply conceptual barriers rooted in a philosophical and cultural framework fundamentally foreign …
Part 1: Huntington’s Framework for Political Order Samuel P. Huntington’s contributions to political science remain foundational in understanding the development and stability of political systems. His book Political Order in Changing Societies challenges the assumption that economic modernization automatically leads to stable democracies. Instead, Huntington argues that modernization can cause instability, disorder, and even political …
In one of the more memorable anecdotes from Wyndham Lewis’s first autobiography, Blasting and Bombardiering, the Vorticist recounts meeting his Futurist counterpart, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, in a lavatory (Marinetti had gone to wash after a particularly energetic lecture during which had "drenched himself in sweat"). With characteristically thrasonic gusto, the Italian declares that Lewis is …
Introduction The Current State of Greek Tragedy Interpretation: Navigating Cross-Cultural and Cross-Temporal Challenges Much contemporary scholarship on ancient Greek tragedy has grappled with the challenges of cross-cultural and cross-temporal interpretation (Meineck, 2012). As a legacy of Western academic traditions, the prevailing view has long been that concepts and philosophical ideas can be easily translated and …
1. Introduction to Transhumanism and its Goals Transhumanism is a movement—popular with and sponsored by tech elites and others in the global superclass—that advocates the technological “enhancement” of human beings, largely through biotechnology and AI. The stated goal of the movement is to engineer the posthuman, a super-enhanced organism or species that can no longer …
This is part two in a two-part series. Homo Bulla and The Philosophies of Magic Sit tibi terra levis – May the ground be light on you "Man is a bubble (Homo Bulla), they say;" writes Varro, the greatest scholar of ancient Rome, in his book on 'On farming', “in which case the …
