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To assess the purpose and character of the Prince Works, I divide the analysis into two parts. First, I assess whether the Prince Works are transformative of Plaintiffs’ Works. Second, I assess whether the Prince Works are commercial in nature. I conclude that (1) the Prince Works are not transformative of the Plaintiffs’ Works, and (2) the Prince Works are commercial in nature. […]
This 1978 lecture, taken in combination with my Y2K prognostications regarding press photography and photojournalism, recently posted here, you have some means of gauging my capacity for futurecasting. […]
Can it be sheer coincidence that this standardization of thought and expression in both visual and verbal modes came out of the same environment? I think not. They emerged at almost exactly the same time, from within the same hothouse ― the international post-secondary art-education system. Their virtually simultaneous birth merely manifests that sheltered microcosm’s belated recognition of something the hardscrabble working class has known for millennia: bullshit makes effective and inexpensive fuel, and if everyone’s using it the smell soon goes unnoticed. […]
It’s conceivable that any given postmodernist text you happen upon in print came from The Postmodernism Generator, a website that generates endless postmodern essays via an algorithm. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, as Seinfeld would say, since postmodern theory hypothesizes that no original ideas exist, only recycled ones. A recycling machine for the standardized locutions of postmodernist theory comes as a logical extension of that philosophical position. […]
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Thought for the Day Ignorance is a condition; dumbness is a commitment.
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