??!! The Sublime vs. The Merely Beautiful
posted by June 8 at 8:35 AM
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Photo of Fnarf (c) 2007 John E. Hollingsworth.
The concept of “beauty” as imagined by the Platonic philosophers is inadequate to describe all of the fearful and irregular forms of nature. The conventional beauty of the Northwest (expressed in mountains, evergreen trees, blue skies, blue water) fails to full range of feelings aroused by this gold man. These feelings can be called “the sublime.”
While Plato believed that the beautiful and the sublime were harmonious, later thinkers such as Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant recognized that there was a depth of experience, characterized by awe and an awareness of the “dark, uncertain, and confused”, that simple beauty, however pleasurable, could never encompass. The gold man in nature brings to us what Schopenhauer called “the fullest feeling of sublime”—the immensity of the universe’s extent, and pleasure from one’s oneness with nature.
This picture, however, is merely beautiful.
Photo of Ash Grove Cement, Seattle, (c) 2007 by Fnarf.
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oh. burn.
do adrian next!!
Nice Charles Mudede impersonation!
BURN!!! BURN!!! BUUUURRRNNN!!!!1!
It's not a burn, it's a tribute.
THIS HUMOR MAKES ME WANNA HURL
Charles Mudede is black.
O RLY!
Kicking a cripple...
Fnarf's package is pretty intense.
Are you wearing a cup?
hmmm... looks like a friend of andre.
Nabokov had a similar concept he called "aesthetic bliss". And, this is perfect. Keep it coming.
When dudes wear cups, it's either to hide their small package, or hide their small package from feet.
Damn, Fnarf looks hung.
I always thought the cement factory looked like the worlds most bitchen ride. Had I been a braver man I would have broken in and ridden those cool conveyor things.
I'm betting on codpiece.
First!
@16, wouldn't he have to be wearing it on the outside then?
"Nice Charles Mudede impersonation!"
please, that is nowhere near me. and besides, my aesthetics are drawn from marcuse and other marxist readings.
It's splendid Satire. And yes, Charles, it's quite close enough for Freaky Friday. :-)
Thanks for my first good laugh of the day.
Charles, what did you think of their comments on the SIFF podcast (i just thought of codpiece typing podcast)? Zizek is kind of a disgusting looking bear, no? He's no Fnarf.
It's a boxing cup. That suit is, uh, rather form-fitting. Fnarf has no limits but other people do.
This could be a great day.
Exellent post, Fnarf.
@19
Oh come on.
Close enough for rock and roll Charles.
clap, clap, clap.
Despite Charles' protestation, this is well done.
Nice one, Fnarf.
Not exactly the same as Charles, but parody never is.
I believe Schopenhauer would have recognized the gold man for what he is - the first place trophy in an amateur bowling tournament.
(Sean, imitating himself replying to one of Charle's posts.)
Bwaaahahahaha!
That was fucking awesome.
I'm waiting for the ECB parody. Should be easy, but I have high hopes that whoever does it will reach a little and really surprise is.
Fnarf, are you a lycra perv? That is soooooooooooo good to know.
I used to work at the site of that photo, sweeping up concrete dust in the vast hold of a ship. Five minutes after you'd swept up a spot and moved on, the fine dust would resettle where you'd been--all you'd accomplished was turning your hair to concrete (removable by washing with vinegar). But the place is even more beautiful from deep inside a ship, viewed through wafting, shifting clouds of concrete dust. Ash Grove Cement is the most beautiful sculpture in Seattle.
Fnarf in a gold unitard! I'm blind! I'm blind!
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