When I was a young rebellious man (as opposed to now being an old rebellious man) I thought it crafty to take two opposing ideas and juxtapose them by melding them into one phrase that on the surface appeared to be a contradiction, an oxymoron. Examples might be
Contemporary antiquities
Elevated valley
Stupid genius
Utopian nihilist
That last one is [...]
Jean Baudrillard, a French philosopher, wrote Simulations and Simulacra in the early 1980s. In this book, Baudrillard takes on two major themes of a postmodern society that lead to an interesting problem: the loss of the Real.
For this entry, I will focus just on the simulacra of Simulations and Simulacra in the context of the [...]
When I started writing poetry back in the 1980s you almost never saw rhyme in contemporary poetry. In fact, there was such a prejudice against it that the mere mention of rhyme would send most “serious” poets to file 13 to unload their lunch. God forbid a Postmodern poet should rhyme.
But that has changed since [...]
Meet the Dead Philosopher’s Society.
I’ve always been enamored of philosophy. I think my fascination with it began early when I realized I was more intelligent than 75% of the adults in my world. I was about 10 years old. I began to take an interest in chess as entertainment and logic problems as solitaire thinking [...]