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Tag Archives: pop culture
Collective mens rea? Or a lack of musical supply…
Ben Jones of TorrentFreak published an article a couple of weeks ago discussing the 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey in the U.K., in which it was revealed not only that so-called “piracy” is rampant, even among the generally non-criminal element. What’s … Continue reading
Posted in Business Law, Intellectual Property
Tagged copyfight, entertainment survey, licensing, mp3, music, pop culture, RIAA
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On Friedrich and Britney, part III
When we left off with “On Friedrich and Britney, part II”, we asked a question about the connection between Nietzsche’s statement, “Without art we would be nothing but foreground,” and Shelley’s, “poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration”. The … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Humanities
Tagged art, nietzsche, pop culture, shelley, truth
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On Friedrich and Britney, part II
How does the art of which Nietzsche writes reveal the existence of something beyond foreground, the existence of texture? For that we must leave Freddy N for a moment and read a Briton who was somewhere on the continent some … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Humanities
Tagged art, defense of poesy, nietzsche, pop culture, shelley
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On Friedrich and Britney, Part I
Let’s leave law for a few days… “Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, … Continue reading
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