Category Archives: Prose

Philosophy Is…

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Malcolm Farley

Philosophy is science without fact, art without feeling.

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From Sontag’s Regarding The Pain of Others

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Malcolm Farley

What to do with such knowledge as photographs bring of faraway suffering? People are often unable to take in the sufferings of those close to them.  […]   For all the voyeuristic lure—and the possible satisfaction of knowing, This is … Continue reading →

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Gardener’s Diary

Posted on August 2, 2010 by Malcolm Farley

It’s been a very dry hot summer here. Fortunately, early August has suddenly gotten about 10 degrees cooler. Our garden looks green only because we’ve been watering the hell out of it (literally) every day for nearly 2 months.  (It’s felt … Continue reading →

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From Sontag’s Regarding The Pain of Others

Posted on July 31, 2010 by Malcolm Farley

To speak of reality becoming a spectacle is a breathtaking provincialism.  It universalizes the viewing habits of a small, educated population living in the rich part of the world, where news has been converted into entertainment—that mature style of viewing … Continue reading →

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From Sontag’s Regarding The Pain of Others

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Malcolm Farley

Photographs that everyone recognizes are now a constituent part of what a society chooses to think about, or delcares that it has chosen to think about.   It calls these ideas “memories,” and that is, over the long run , … Continue reading →

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