the art world:          dogmatic slumber

                                                                                                                 contra le livre
notes on thinking and its parameters


from the philosopher's hut                                                                    texting

     contemporary art:  exhaustion of meaning, loss of meaning, narrowing of focus
normal art (Kuhn)


rote use of forms, inbred, pandering to the audience and market
pseudisms
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Beuys

thinking is form


Wittgenstein
                logic
only what you can say with certainty

Heideigger
         importance of not being totally intelligible

Kant critique of pure reason
Einstein relativity
Zizek reflexivity

Sartre
   laudanum
         expositionation  forced thought  extreme thought

Foucault  Deleuze  Barthes
    literature

                   they activated a free space for thinking less clad by rules

American backlash

Baudrillard
      alternative interpretation of reality  simulations

Newton
  absolute space

picture theory Wittgenstein
Deleuze monads, le pli

passive thinking
  accepting the limits of the commonly accepted parameters (normal science in Thomas Kuhn)

A.D.D.  creative thinking, roaming
normal science too attentive to the details

intentionality  Husserl

Daniel Dennett
        biologizing religion

French thought

tradition, national stature, fashion

American opposition
    New Criticism, R. Storr, Varnadoe
     Documenta, Manifesta

Stars  Zizek, Baudrillard, Foucault

to find out what art can be without the word art