Wishing all readers a super New Year. For some good New Year’s reading look up an excellent article on one of the high points of fashion which I discuss in V&R Chapters 4 and 5. The link itself won’t transfer but pop over to the lovely website Quill & Pad and look up their…
In the spirit of Christmas and V&R: “The Three Kings came to Bethlehem bringing gold and frankincense and myrrh. If they had only brought Truth and Purity and Love there would have been no Christian art and no Christian Civilization.” ~~~ G. K. Chesterton
This is the question posed here in a NYT article but Jacques Lacan is sure the answer is “no.” The piece offers useful background on the origins of high heels and the fact that men and kings used to wear them. Like so much fashion, they began with the calvary. The thesis of the…
I’ve nothing to add but it’s nice to know the Scots have named so obscure a place. On the map, Graham Land is the bit of Antartica closest to South America.
An impressive list of books to take on a business trip: https://www.cntraveler.com/story/designer-brunello-cucinelli-on-finding-cashmere-and-inspiration-in-mongolia
I’ll certainly give it a go: https://www.huntsmansavilerow.com/tweed/
Chapter 5 is the heart of V&R and makes the claim that Scheler’s idea of the estate is the most moral model for business. Examples there and in the blog show that a number of fashion houses are good approximations to the estate. Here, I want to contrast Scheler’s 1913 The Nature of Sympathy with…
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was involved in the founding of my undergraduate institution, the “Godless College,” University College London. Nonetheless, I have never been taken with his ethical thought. Benthamism or utilitarianism is, with Kantianism, one of the two most dominant ethical theories taught at colleges in the Anglosphere. I’m not sure it has the…
*This is the first in what I hope will be a series of thoughts about Lacan and clothes. Since the summer, my friend and sometime blogger here, Chris Wojtulewicz have been reading Lacan together. Each week via FaceTime we have done a seminar on Lacan’s Seminar 7: very meta. Lacan is a genius and has…