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    The latex scene and monasticism seem like polar opposites. Are they?

    The latex scene and monasticism seem like polar opposites. Are they?

    This and other questions answered in my interview with Executive Editor of Tricycle Magazine for This Buddhist Life in their Winter 2017 issue. Online link (you can liberate the full article if you're a Tricycle subscriber) or digital file (only via this blogsite!)
     
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    As the activity of the mystic must end in the via negative, a theology of God’s absence, a craving for the cloud of unknowingness beyond knowledge and for the silence beyond speech, so art must tend towards anti-art, the elimination of the “subject”  (the “object”, the “image”), the substitution of chance for intention,

    and the pursuit of silence.

    […] Therefore, art becomes estimated as something to be overthrown. A new element enters the art-work and becomes  constitute of it:

    the appeal (tacit or overt) for its own abolition

    – and, ultimately, for the abolition of art itself. 

     

    Susan Sontag,  from ‘The Aesthetics of Silence’, 1966.

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