Collective mens rea? Or a lack of musical supply…

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Intellectual Property | 1 Comment »

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. ...

On Friedrich and Britney, part III

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 Posted in Communications, Humanities | No Comments »

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 answer ...

On Friedrich and Britney, part II

Monday, December 31st, 2007 Posted in Communications, Humanities | 2 Comments »

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 ...

On Friedrich and Britney, Part I

Thursday, December 27th, 2007 Posted in Communications, Humanities | No Comments »

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, and ...