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Kubrick and Welles both artists of post-WWII "contingency".
Have to push The Trial (Welles version)
sincere irony. The discord mentioned Ricky Jay but Penn and Teller might be better ref points for postmodernish stage magic.
Also MNM, "the skilled revelation of skilled concealment"
Horror hosts. I would guess that the EC comics ones preceded the TV ones?
PF: the film is fun, but it's not all light-hearted ha-ha nothing means anything. There's a serious core, something about the sacral nature of art. We wouldn't be so obsessed with fakes and authenticity if the art object didn't play this sacred role.
And realize that for a secular like myself, I still prostrate myself before Art, or try to.
Interesting take on Sokal hoax – that in faking a hermeneutical interpretation of quantum physics, he had to actually put himself in that mindset and he doesn't get the final interpretation on what it means (if anything). Idea of founding a religion on it is amusing.
Art markets as a kind of parody of commodities. Art objects are unique and singular in their nature, they aren't commodities, their nature and value lies in their resistance to commodification.
JFM: every postmodern essay (or creative act of any kind) has an element of fakery, a sort of aspirational kind. Every edit (in a documentary) is a tiny lie. Deception in order to get to the truth.
JFM: every creative act is an acausal leap, a cheat (cheating causality). Committing a crime. In a deterministic cosmos, but all good things (art) comes from those crimes.
I can't say how much I hate this particular trope (is it a trope? it seems deeper than that. A dualistic move). Not even sure why. The split into natural and supernatural, with all the good stuff on the supernatural side.
Hm. I don't think he's any kind of naive dualist. Still something going. on that I am just opposed to. That mind is an intrusion on the material and causal, a force from outside rather than an eruption from within.
The truth of Stage magic, because the experience is real (oh man I want to fight with this).