Zach's Strange Corner of Thought
You Made A Wrong Turn Awhile Back!
What does it mean to write “This is not Muhammad” across a bluntly literal and blasphemous picture of the founder of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad? This video on aesthetics follows a similar trajectory to the essay written by Michel Foucault “This is not a Pipe” about a painting by painter Rene Magritte
Citations:
Foucault, Michel. This Is Not a Pipe. Translated by James A. Harkness, University of California Press, 2008. Buy here!
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Painted by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes between 1819–1823. Check out how this beautiful painting relates to mythology, temporality, & ontology.
Also, check out Overly Sarcastic Productions (OSP). The sarcasm from this video inspired me when I made the Mythology section of the video.
Works Cited:
Deleuze, Gilles. Difference and Repetition. Translated by Paul Patton, Columbia University Press, 1994. Page 29.
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