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January & February 2025: Change and Loss in Eras And Time
Author and reporter Gay Talese reads a newspaper in New York City, in 1982 “I think that virtues are real. I think there are good things...
Mitch Hampton
Feb 39 min read
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Understanding Backwards While Living Forwards
“At Bennington the self was a creation; the life was a kind of performance art.” Jonathan Lethem
Mitch Hampton
Oct 2, 20249 min read
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Values And Sensibility in Education
All of us have feelings like these over cultural products like books or movies, that I am categorizing as works of art.
Mitch Hampton
Sep 1, 20249 min read
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My Journey With Productions and Representations Past and Present
My Journey With Productions and Representations Past and Present
Mitch Hampton
Aug 1, 202412 min read
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Snapshots of Artistic Experiences
I have both written and spoken here and elsewhere about my concept of the snapshot. One of the predominant, perhaps incessant matters is...
Mitch Hampton
Apr 1, 20249 min read
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March 2024- The Place of Aesthetics in Personal Biography
As of late in these posts I have been discussing my personal relationship with all sorts of art objects that happen to occupy a greater...
Mitch Hampton
Mar 1, 20247 min read
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On Likes, Loves and Style
You can imagine my joy at seeing the particular quote that Bradley Cooper chose to open his biopic on Leonard Bernstein. In it he...
Mitch Hampton
Feb 1, 20244 min read
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January: "A Most Personal Post"
With the turning of one year into another on this partly artificial, partly natural social calendar, I find myself moved to focus yet...
Mitch Hampton
Jan 1, 20249 min read
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Of Things Great and Small, Outer and Inner
What is the relationship between grand exterior events and the discrete, interior things I or we can call art? Or, rather, to be fair to...
lauriesstorygarden
Nov 1, 20239 min read
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October Post: Demy, Varda and Our Reception of Styles
I don’t like labels that classify you and file you away as a little ‘romantic.’ Perhaps Lola was romantic, but Les Parapluies de...
Mitch Hampton
Oct 2, 20239 min read
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September Post: Art, Tech, and Time
"I think that our desire to make history about the present all the time actually kind of robs it of something. We miss the point of just...
Mitch Hampton
Sep 1, 20237 min read
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What I talk about when I talk about Aesthetics
"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer; ...
Mitch Hampton
Aug 1, 20237 min read
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Diversity, Beliefs, Democracy and Art
"I should make my own position as a philosopher clear. I'm not a relativist and I'm not an absolutist in the senses I have been talking...
Mitch Hampton
Jul 1, 202310 min read
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June post: Cinephelia and Summer
"There is nothing quite like that moment when the lights go down and all our hopes are concentrated on the screen." Pauline Kael Readers...
Mitch Hampton
Jun 1, 20237 min read
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May Post: Philosophy and Daily Life
In April I wrote at far greater length than I perhaps should have about Immanuel Kant. It immediately reminded me of Tim Scanlon's joke...
Mitch Hampton
May 1, 20237 min read
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March Post: The Reception of Art and Personal Experience
We like March. His Shoes are Purple — He is new and high — Makes he Mud for Dog and Peddler. Makes he Forests dry. Knows the Adder Tongue...
Mitch Hampton
Mar 1, 20236 min read
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On the Aesthetics of our Snapshots as History Turns
The month of January of course makes me think about the passage of time - both within single eras and from one era to the discontinuous...
Mitch Hampton
Jan 1, 20237 min read
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Styles of Back to School Prose
With September comes thoughts of endeavors that get categorized in our culture as intellectual pursuits. Part of this is of course the...
Mitch Hampton
Sep 1, 20225 min read
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