GENIUS FORUMS

Marcel Duchamp

Genius or Joker?

Probably both, but then he is an artist, which doesn't bode well. Artists tend to get emotionally aroused by the freedom of interpretation of imagery, leading them to distrust logic, not realising that logic has led them to that realisation. So then they become rather boring. They don't have enough conceptual clarity to make the grand leap into emptiness, but perch on a ledge of teenage defiance, trying to hold onto altered states of consciousness with psycho-intellectual games and calling them mystical or transcendant.

I hadn't heard of Stirner's "Ego and its own" and it sounds interesting as an existential analysis of ego (that is, undialectical expression of it).

Bob Dylan's one and only novel Tarantula is a funny work, if you're into surrealism.


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