Blow the sorrow away...

Serious art has been withheld from those for whom the hardship and oppression of life make a mockery of seriousness, and who must be glad if they can use time not spent at the production line just to keep going. Light art has been the shadow of autonomous art. It is the social bad conscience of serious art. The truth which the latter necessarily lacked because of its social premises gives the other the semblance of legitimacy. The division itself is the truth: it does at least express the negativity of the culture which the different spheres constitute. Least of all can the antithesis be reconciled by absorbing light into serious art, or vice versa. But that is what the culture industry attempts.

--Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer (1944), Dialectic of Enlightenment

Be serious !

serious ANTI-GRAPHICS- Belgrade 2007

SERIOUS PHILOSOPHER

Chomsky: had all of his mail checked for explosives. He states that he frequently receives undercover police protection.
Russell: aristocrat interested in sex, religion and mathematics (suicidal).
Wittgenstein: born as jew, turn into protestant died as catholic.
Hume: self guided thought experiments in Jesuit seminary in France.
Deleuze: lung cancer, committed suicide, throwing himself from the window of his apartment.
Nietzsche: exhibited symptoms of a serious mental illness, living out his remaining years in the care of his mother and sister until his death.
Kant: spent his silent decade in isolation away from people.
Hegel: was a sickly child and almost died of smallpox before he was six. Died of cholera at age of 61.
Descartes's: had tendency to work in a large bread oven where he spent much time meditating.
Leibniz: On several occasions, he backdated and altered personal manuscripts.
Sartre: a lifelong companion od Simone de Beauvoir , though they were both polygamists.
Marx: there is a disputed rumour that Marx was the father of Frederick Demuth, the son of Marx's housekeeper.
Freud: had numerous psychosomatic disorders as well as exaggerated fears of dying and other phobias.
Jung: is believed to have had extramarital affairs with patients and friends.

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