From: "Johnson Watts" <morpho-AT-pclv.com>
Subject: Re: nietzsche and some questions
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:25:54 -0700


I've been mulling over the possibilities of a thinly veiled attempt to troll
the web for answers to some mediocre, question-begging, essay assignments..

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From: "- Isabella -" <boduvagod-AT-hotmail.com>
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Subject: nietzsche and some questions


> I've been mulling over the possibilities of nietzschean utopia and have
been
> reading on the subject.  I have some questions and would like to know your
> opinions and thoughts...
>
> Sir Thomas Moore is routinely called a "humanist."  What, exactly, is
> "humanistic" in his Utopia?
>
> Many humanists think of themselves as defending humanistic values against
> materialistic science and technology.  So are pop films like The Matrix
> Reloaded and Terminator III profoundly humanistic because of their stern
> warnings against the rise of the machines?
> When did fear of technology become the dominant theme in Pop Culture?
>
> Art historians and literary scholars examine the cultural and intellectual
> contexts in which artworks are created.  What are differences in the
> cultural and intellectual contexts that led to Huxley's Brave New World
and
> Orwell's 1984?  And in turn, how does the time context of Orwell's 1984 -- 
> the Spanish Civil War, Hitlerism, and Stalinism for starters -- differ
from
> that of Gibson's Neuromancer (1984)?  How does the context of Charlotte
> Perkins Gilman's Utopian novel Herland (1915) differ from the context of
> Atwood's dystopian feminist novel The Handmaid's Tale?
>
> The impact of Darwinism on Religion is one of the main topics of
academians
> but was Darwinism any less devastating for old-fashioned Humanism?
> If "Humanism" were being created today, hwo would it differ from the old
> Euro Humanism of the Renaissance?
>
> When did Utopianism become socialistic or was it always so?
> Is Disney World Utopian?
>
> Shouldn't the Humanities today focus more on things that really affect
> people's lives, like TV sitcoms, ads, infomercials, grocery-store
magazines,
> comic books and billboards?
>
> Whatever happened to the nude in art?  Did it disappear because of
academic
> political righteousness and because artists are noew very sensitive about
> treating the body as a sexual object?  Probably not.  So where did all the
> nudes go when they left art?
>
> Speaking of High Seriousness and High Pomposity, can Low Media like Comic
> books and animated films deal effectively with profound themes like
> Hiroshima or the Holocaust?  Can you think of any examples?
>
> How do things passover from Low Art to High Art?
>
> Whatever happened to Primitivism -- the attempt to liberate the human
> instincts and all that -- one of the HUGE themes in Modernism and of
course
> in Ancient Greek philosophy.  How and why did Primitivism or instinctivism
> become the mainstay of American "Education?"  What are its main forms and
> politically correct names in visual art in 2003?  If you were to turn to
the
> yellow pages to find info on visual primitivism that you can buy in the
Bay
> area, what categories would you search?
>
> Whatever happened to Postmodernism?
>
> Why did the ideas of the French constructivists and deconstructivists
> dominate American English and Art departments in the recent past?
>
> --Isabella
>
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