Comments on: Back to God with Camille Paglia http://www.radioopensource.org/back-to-god-with-camille-paglia/ Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:09:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Link Hoppers Contextual Ad System. | 7Wins.eu http://www.radioopensource.org/back-to-god-with-camille-paglia/#comment-87170 Link Hoppers Contextual Ad System. | 7Wins.eu Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:43:15 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/back-to-god-with-camille-paglia/#comment-87170 [...] ernal, nofollow"> Climate Audit - by Steve McIntyre » The Minnesota Dam Nation Open Source » Blog Archive » Back to God with Camille Pag [...] [...] ernal, nofollow”>
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]]> By: The Boar’s Head Tavern » http://www.radioopensource.org/back-to-god-with-camille-paglia/#comment-87169 The Boar’s Head Tavern » Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:53:36 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/back-to-god-with-camille-paglia/#comment-87169 [...] nation, or heroin, which has come back with a vengeance. She said that in 1995. Check out this interview last year. But Bill’s and Michael’s points are right o [...] [...] nation, or heroin, which has come back with a vengeance. She said that in 1995. Check out this interview last year. But Bill’s and Michael’s points are right o [...]

]]> By: Potter http://www.radioopensource.org/back-to-god-with-camille-paglia/#comment-87168 Potter Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:08:20 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/back-to-god-with-camille-paglia/#comment-87168 Finally we agree RC21. Finally we agree RC21.

]]> By: rc21 http://www.radioopensource.org/back-to-god-with-camille-paglia/#comment-87167 rc21 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:54:21 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/back-to-god-with-camille-paglia/#comment-87167 Camille must be pretty cool if she is drawing criticism from both the right and the left. I say rock on Camille. Camille must be pretty cool if she is drawing criticism from both the right and the left. I say rock on Camille.

]]> By: Nick http://www.radioopensource.org/back-to-god-with-camille-paglia/#comment-87166 Nick Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:06:16 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/back-to-god-with-camille-paglia/#comment-87166 I just moments ago listened to a half-hour dialogue on BBC radio between an 'interviewer' (if that isn't an utterly preposterous term for him) and an articulate defender of monotheistic religion (Judaism, in this instance). Not <i>one</i> of the interviewee's replies weren't variants on the 'God works in mysterious ways' evasion. <b>Not one.</b> No matter how beautufully phrased and disguised. When the hell are we going to call this eternally predictable ruse what it is -- a <i>sham</i> -- instead of thanking the interviewees for their time??? I just moments ago listened to a half-hour dialogue on BBC radio between an ‘interviewer’ (if that isn’t an utterly preposterous term for him) and an articulate defender of monotheistic religion (Judaism, in this instance).

Not one of the interviewee’s replies weren’t variants on the ‘God works in mysterious ways’ evasion. Not one. No matter how beautufully phrased and disguised.

When the hell are we going to call this eternally predictable ruse what it is — a sham — instead of thanking the interviewees for their time???

]]> By: pmalkus http://www.radioopensource.org/back-to-god-with-camille-paglia/#comment-87165 pmalkus Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:58:12 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/back-to-god-with-camille-paglia/#comment-87165 This was the worst show I've heard on Open Source! Many of the contributors above have expressed the nature of my disappointment: unsupported arguments, incoherent rationales, trivializing of opposing views, and grotesque self-aggrandizing. Some interesting ideas were brought up, but none were discussed in the depth or with the intellectual honesty I've come to expect from Open Source. This was the worst show I’ve heard on Open Source! Many of the contributors above have expressed the nature of my disappointment: unsupported arguments, incoherent rationales, trivializing of opposing views, and grotesque self-aggrandizing. Some interesting ideas were brought up, but none were discussed in the depth or with the intellectual honesty I’ve come to expect from Open Source.

]]> By: lptrixiemale http://www.radioopensource.org/back-to-god-with-camille-paglia/#comment-87164 lptrixiemale Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:15:08 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/back-to-god-with-camille-paglia/#comment-87164 So the web is like a glacier flattening the traditional process of making art? unavoidable perhaps. Is the lament because CP may be dead before she can enjoy whatever good result may come of it? Perhaps she should retire to upstate New York and enjoy the beauty created in the midst of the Caveman's suffering? Credit to Ibertaux for giving a more concrete comment than I am able to. So the web is like a glacier flattening the traditional process of making art? unavoidable perhaps. Is the lament because CP may be dead before she can enjoy whatever good result may come of it? Perhaps she should retire to upstate New York and enjoy the beauty created in the midst of the Caveman’s suffering?

Credit to Ibertaux for giving a more concrete comment than I am able to.

]]> By: plnelson http://www.radioopensource.org/back-to-god-with-camille-paglia/#comment-87163 plnelson Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:41:42 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/back-to-god-with-camille-paglia/#comment-87163 <i>I just don’t understand the animus that Paglia evokes, mostly from males I notice.</i> I haven't noticed this. Most of the complaints I've seen about her seem to come from feminists. For the record, I'm male and I'm a Paglia fan. One thing I like about her is that, just like her, I am spiritually aligned with liberals and progressives on most things but I also reserve most of my criticism for them. Like Paglia I'm an iconoclast. I also agree with her on religion - I'm not the least bit religious but as an artist I recognize the value it has in stimulating an artistic appreciation for the ineffable, a sense of awe and wonder. My major artistic influences are the late Renaissance and Baroque, EVEN when my subject happens to be a female nude with piercings. Another thing I like about her is that she recognizes and respects the power of the erotic and the sexual as the animating force that it <b>is</b> in art and culture. It's probably on that count that she has taken the most flack, especially from feminists and conservatives. I just don’t understand the animus that Paglia evokes, mostly from males I notice.

I haven’t noticed this. Most of the complaints I’ve seen about her seem to come from feminists.

For the record, I’m male and I’m a Paglia fan. One thing I like about her is that, just like her, I am spiritually aligned with liberals and progressives on most things but I also reserve most of my criticism for them. Like Paglia I’m an iconoclast.

I also agree with her on religion – I’m not the least bit religious but as an artist I recognize the value it has in stimulating an artistic appreciation for the ineffable, a sense of awe and wonder. My major artistic influences are the late Renaissance and Baroque, EVEN when my subject happens to be a female nude with piercings.

Another thing I like about her is that she recognizes and respects the power of the erotic and the sexual as the animating force that it is in art and culture. It’s probably on that count that she has taken the most flack, especially from feminists and conservatives.

]]> By: Potter http://www.radioopensource.org/back-to-god-with-camille-paglia/#comment-87162 Potter Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:12:03 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/back-to-god-with-camille-paglia/#comment-87162 Tbrucia- you make my point. It's all about her style, her delivery. The "I''s don't bother me. She does have a stuttery staccato delivery-not really stuttering..does not bother me either. The excessive labeling did catch my attention. BUT as Steven sort of points out she is equal-opportunity in her criticism-she is trying to negotiate -to bring opposing views closer. At the moment we are stuck in these categories- she accepts them and goes from there. The alternative is to deny they exist. Maybe Steven is right, this may be the wrong cultural moment for this "schtick" - OR maybe it is exactly the right one. There are almost 700 responses to her cirst column at Salon.com BTW! Tbrucia- you make my point. It’s all about her style, her delivery.

The “I”s don’t bother me. She does have a stuttery staccato delivery-not really stuttering..does not bother me either. The excessive labeling did catch my attention. BUT as Steven sort of points out she is equal-opportunity in her criticism-she is trying to negotiate -to bring opposing views closer. At the moment we are stuck in these categories- she accepts them and goes from there. The alternative is to deny they exist.

Maybe Steven is right, this may be the wrong cultural moment for this “schtick” – OR maybe it is exactly the right one.

There are almost 700 responses to her cirst column at Salon.com BTW!

]]> By: Steven Augustine http://www.radioopensource.org/back-to-god-with-camille-paglia/#comment-87161 Steven Augustine Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:47:08 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/back-to-god-with-camille-paglia/#comment-87161 "Flamboyant displays of “open mindedness” are not at the moment appreciated if being “open minded” means taking certain figures from the for-all-intents-and-purposes “evil” Right seriously..." Better clarify. By "taking [them]...seriously" I mean *giving their worldviews equal time or consideration*. Certainly, these figures from the Right have to be taken as seriously as one would take a loaded gun or a rabid pitbull. “Flamboyant displays of “open mindedness” are not at the moment appreciated if being “open minded” means taking certain figures from the for-all-intents-and-purposes “evil” Right seriously…”

Better clarify. By “taking [them]…seriously” I mean *giving their worldviews equal time or consideration*. Certainly, these figures from the Right have to be taken as seriously as one would take a loaded gun or a rabid pitbull.

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