Phil Witte’s Cartoon | Issue 164 | Philosophy Now

there is no doubt that there are things which we can learn, or unlearn, from it and apply in our own way. It has the special merit of a mode of expressing itself which is as intelligible–or perhaps as baffling–to the intellectual as to the illiterate, offering possibilities of communication which we have not explored. It has a directness, verve, an

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And this is why I put “ayy lmao” in my meme about the heart of philosophy. Laughter is the divine thing that transmutes stupid bullshit into something real. It cracks up the edifice of polite fictions and tedious prattle and gets to the heart of things. And fun, I think, always has a spirit of laughter about it, even if you’re doing it quietly with... See more

I took a course on the philosophical novel, taught by Maria Němcová Banerjee, an expert on Milan Kundera’s work, and began to think about how novels engage intellectual traditions, how they can make use of and even serve as a form of philosophy.

“there is also something flat-out funny about Wilke’s sculptural work, an attitude shared with a number of works made by Hesse, Bourgeois, and others, although it is an aspect of their work that tends to get overlooked—too awkward, a bit embarrassing to an artworld for whom “funny” is often a dirty word”

Wilke - Acquavella Galleries - Hesse / Wilke

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