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Human Nature vs. Human Institutions: Camille Paglia on Sex and Rape on Campus
Since abandoning her monthly Salon gig a few years back, Camille Paglia hasn’t had much of an Internet presence, but when, beyond her book writing, she does surface, she writes thought provoking things. Here’s a bit of what Paglia recently … Continue reading
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Camille Paglia Eats Taylor Swift
Our cultural hatred for aging and growing up (20-somethings still rehearsing teenage personas; 60-somethings botoxing) has Camille Paglia (aged 65) seriously annoyed, and in a recent article for the Hollywood Reporter, one of her targets for criticism is Taylor Swift, … Continue reading
Camille Paglia on the New Atheism and Contemporary Humanism
In an interview posted at Salon today, Camille Paglia lets loose on godless chic, arguing that it has poisoned contemporary film and art: People in the humanities have sunk into this shallow, snobby, liberal style of stereotyping religious believers as … Continue reading
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Tagged art, atheism, atheist, books, Buddha, Camille Paglia, Christopher Hitchens, humanism, Jesus, religion, Richard Dawkins, samsara
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Sweeping the Prudes into the Dust Bin of History: Camille Paglia on Elizabeth Taylor
Camille Paglia has been working on a book and, consequently, her Internet presence has been near to zip for more than a year. But Salon recently interviewed her on the death of Elizabeth Taylor, and here’s part of what she had to … Continue reading
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Tagged Camille Paglia, elizabeth taylor, feminism, film, Ishtar, madonna, paganism, queen of heaven, sex, Sexual Personae, the whore of babylon, Virgin Mary
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20 Years after Sexual Personae: Has Camille Paglia Become a Big Wash Out?
At Pajama’s Media, Bruce Bawer takes after Camille Paglia, most especially for her failure to extensively critique Islam, which is, he says, among “the most serious issues of our time”: [O]n Canadian TV earlier this year, the once feisty, vivacious Paglia … Continue reading
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Mental Health Break: A History of Western Art (Since The Renaissance)
What would Camille Paglia say?
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A clever ad worth seeing
This ad demonstrates the ways in which people at once reveal and conceal their physical traits and personas to others online: Who are you, really?
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Apollonian Nefertiti Kitty Cats and Dionysian Band Boys
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Tagged 1960s, Apollo, apologies, art, Camille Paglia, Dionysus, Egypt, life, music, Nefertiti, smoldering
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Camille Paglia has a Book on the Visual Arts in the Works
And according to what Camille Paglia says at Salon today, she should be done with it by the Fall of 2010: I have gone on hiatus from Salon to focus on my current project for Pantheon Books — a study of the … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Camille Paglia, criticism, life, literature, photography, poetry, Sexual Personae, vision
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Laura Miller Reviews Rebecca Goldstein’s anti-Harold Bloom Novel “36 Arguments for the Existence of God”
In Rebecca Goldstein’s recently released novel, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, Yale’s famous literary behemoth, Harold Bloom, apparently takes some bruising hits. Here’s Laura Miller on this aspect of the novel: Obsessed with “genius” (and his own supreme authority in the … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Camille Paglia, cults, English, God, Harold Bloom, literature, philosophy, psychology, religion, science
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Camille Paglia on Richard Dawkins
Today in Salon, Camille Paglia, an atheist who obviously hasn’t been paying much serious attention to the post 9/11 New Atheist movement, stumbled upon Richard Dawkins talking about religion on NPR, and having never heard his voice before, she thought he sounded a … Continue reading
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Mental Health Break with British Zombies and Egyptian Queens
Oh, Camille Paglia would have something to say about this video perfectly blending the Apollonian and the Dionysian, wouldn’t she? The brilliance of the setting is the smoldering Dionysian energy of the male band contrasting with the Apollonian Egyptian cat-like statue-stillness … Continue reading
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Tagged apollo v. dionysus, Camille Paglia, Dionysus, egyptian, epistemology, illusion, mental health break, Nefertiti, philosophy, psychology, pyramids, zombies
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Weekend Hot Links
They’re everywhere. Andrew Sullivan and his husband find themselves walking in the background of a famous heterosexual couple’s photograph . . . more Slate deconstructs the conservative Republican War on Empathy . . . more Camille Paglia worries about the obsessive and … Continue reading
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Mental Health Break: Viva Viagra with Naughty Nudie Graces!
I think that Camille Paglia would like this Lucas Cranach painting—with its sheeny, armored Apollonian males and naughty nudie graces. These two males have paused, dangerously, in the pagan wilderness, and like Mars, are about to be relieved of their clothes … Continue reading
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Two Nations Squabble over the BUST of a WOMAN
According to Der Spiegel, Egypt is making a renewed attempt to get Germany to give the ancient bust of Nefertiti back: The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has possession of the bust and rejects any charge of cheating. The idea that … Continue reading
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Tagged Akhenaten, archeology, bust of Nefertiti, Camille Paglia, Egypt, Germany, history, Nefertiti
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The Female Breast—Defamiliarized
Early in the 20th century, the Russian formalist, Victor Schklovskii, coined the term “defamiliarization” for designating one of the things that literature does (that is, it makes what is familiar unfamiliar ). David Mikics, in his excellent reference, A New Handbook of Literary Terms … Continue reading
Camille Paglia on the Bible and Jesus
At Salon.com today, Camille Paglia is asked by one of her readers what she thinks of the Bible, and the prophecies in the Old Testament (the Hebrew Bible) that were supposedly “fulfilled” by Jesus in the New Testament. Here’s what she … Continue reading
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The Apollonian Armored vs. Tarty Nude Dionysian Graces: A Lucas Cranach Painting from 1530
I think that Camille Paglia would like this painting—with its sheeny, armored Apollonian males and naughty nudie graces. These two males have paused, dangerously, in the pagan wilderness, and like Mars, are about to be relieved of their clothes by these clearly … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo and Dionysus, art, Ayn Rand, Bakkhai, Camille Paglia, cranach, Dionysus, Euripides, literature, lucas cranach, poetry, Sexual Personae
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Prometheus Unbound 