Thanks to all of you that have extended your hearts beyond the core PEL group that you know and love to listen to some of my spin-off shows. I'm well aware that being into songwriting techniques and musicians' personalities as exhibited on Nakedly Examined Music is not at all the same thing as being into philosophy, and that it's mostly just coincidence if a PEL fan might also Continue Reading …
Kitsch and Camp in the Age of Trump
In this strange era, in which the dominant intellectual pastime has become analyzing the moods and behaviors of the American President (not so different, one imagines, from life at Versailles in the mid-eighteenth century) an interesting question about Donald Trump seems, to me at least, to be whether his style is more Kitsch or Camp? I realize this concern puts me in Continue Reading …