4; Scoop by Evelyn Waugh.February 24, 2015Today I feel already a little more confident than two days ago when I was agonizing over the fact that after one month and a half into the new year I only managed to clear two titles from my list. This time I managed to check one off the … Continue reading Reading the Canon of the World Literature Feb 24 till feb 25
Reading the Canon of the World Literature Feb 22 till Feb 23
February 22ndI’ve finished only two titles of my list. This book is listed number fifteen and I started to consider if, for the time being, when picking a book, I shouldn’t stay below number twenty. After all, on number three figures Ana Karina by Tolstoy, and that’s also a giant of 864 pages of difficult … Continue reading Reading the Canon of the World Literature Feb 22 till Feb 23
Reading the Canon of the World Literature Jan 15 till Feb 22.
2. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.The original title of this series of books was “A la Recherche du Temps Perdu” and contains the following volumes;1 Volume One: Swann's Way, 2 Volume Two: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower3 Volume Three: The Guermantes Way4 Volume Four: Sodom and Gomorrah5 Volume Five: … Continue reading Reading the Canon of the World Literature Jan 15 till Feb 22.
Reading the Canon of the World Literature – day 1 to 15.
I made nine years ago a new year's resolution to read the Top 100 Works in World Literature by the Norwegian Book Clubs with the Norwegian Nobel Institute. The club polled a panel of 100 authors from 54 countries on what they considered the “best and most central works in world literature.”I was setting out … Continue reading Reading the Canon of the World Literature – day 1 to 15.
Searching for Meaning in a Digitalized World
This post is about my ongoing quest to find purpose and significance in life, particularly within the context of an increasingly digital society where interactions, information access, and even social connections are largely mediated through technology, presenting both opportunities and challenges in the pursuit of meaning. The internet, social media, and digital devices have become … Continue reading Searching for Meaning in a Digitalized World
Housing Crisis and economical growth
Lately I was looking upon a table provided by the UN and saw that about 30 years ago the world population stood at 4 Billion people. Today we stand at 8 Billion and the prognosis is that by 2050 we will reach the 10 Billion, mostly spurred by the African continent. More people equals more … Continue reading Housing Crisis and economical growth
An Emporium of Order and Chaos.
The title and image of this post refer to an artistically diary in which I’m resuming and catalogizing my artistic and literary creations, larded with thoughts, philosophies, and observations that induced them.The chronological order in which the works were produced has been abandoned in favor of a systematic approach were the subjects are brought together … Continue reading An Emporium of Order and Chaos.
Stupid is as Stupid Does.
Since a couple of days I'm back in Asia, and as far as it stands now, it hasn't provided me with the right vibes to pick up the fourth part of my series "The Maharajagar 4". Thailand is a wonderful country, but all those sexagenarians hanging out with those teenagers who barely reached the age … Continue reading Stupid is as Stupid Does.
Kindle Launch of Here Comes Everybody’s Karma
Here Comes Everybody's Karma is a translation of Finnegans Wake from Joycean Gibberish into Vulgar English. It took me some time, but I've finally put in the effort to convert the print version into a Kindle book. Hereby I invite everyone who has been putting Joyce's masterpiece aside as an unreadable Moloch, to have a … Continue reading Kindle Launch of Here Comes Everybody’s Karma
Inventory Time
It's that time of the year were all society's gears slow down a little bit to re-focus on their different familial nuclei and take stock of what has been done while looking forward to what has to be done. Blogging- wise this hasn't been such a productive year for me since there have been months … Continue reading Inventory Time
I finally did it.
Already since ages I was contemplating how to resist this artificial hype around Halloween. Well, it's simple. I just eliminated all those lit-bloggers who enforce it. There are luckily enough of them left who still have something interesting to say that goes beyond "Spooktober" and don't turn a day when we remember our deceased into … Continue reading I finally did it.
Creative Urbanism, Installation, mixed techniques on wood W 400 x H240 cm x D50 cm
This installation critiques urbanism for potentially perpetuating a systemic gentrify-cation, emphasizing that the ideal of creating cultural-historical homogenic modern real estate overlooks the economic realities faced by many inhabitants of poorer neighborhoods, which often cannot sustain such developments. The European subsides for such projects are too often getting into the pockets of real estate project … Continue reading Creative Urbanism, Installation, mixed techniques on wood W 400 x H240 cm x D50 cm
Will “Cat Lady” become the next taboo word?
The urban dictionary defines a cat lady as "A woman, usually middle-aged or older, who lives alone with no husband or boyfriend, and fills the empty lonely void in her life with as many cats as she can collect in one place". It looks that because some aspiring vice-president gave the word some new meaning, … Continue reading Will “Cat Lady” become the next taboo word?
my great-grandfather.
If you could bring back one dinosaur, which one would it be?
Phases of Wisdom, digital collage of previous works, triptych on canvas 140 x 60 by Shaharee Vyaas.
This triptych represents three components of wisdom: 1) general knowledge of life, 2) acknowledgement of uncertainty and despair, 3) sense of humor.
About Transcribing Finnegans Wake in plain English.
The primary transcription goal of Finnegans Wake into Here Comes Everybody’s Karma (isbn 9781737783299) was to open Joyce’s Opus Magnum for a wider reading public by replacing the foreign language idiosyncrasies with an English equivalent and by streamlining Joyce’s sibylline prose.This required me to engage with the prose of Finnegans Wake that goes beyond that … Continue reading About Transcribing Finnegans Wake in plain English.
Being Water, digital collage of previous works, canvas 80 x 80 cm, 2024.
The background of this work is based upon the concept of dynamics that challenges our perception of fixed borders and boundaries. The seven oceans are an example to illustrate how the arbitrary lines imposed by humans can limit our understanding of the interconnected systems of the world. Dynamics blurs the distinctions between land and sea, … Continue reading Being Water, digital collage of previous works, canvas 80 x 80 cm, 2024.
The Infinite Universe of Pi.
Although I have at this instance a very busy schedule, it seems that I can't keep going without distracting myself every now and then with some artistic project. The idea for this work occurred to me during the night and I couldn't focus on anything else till I had it worked out. It's a digital … Continue reading The Infinite Universe of Pi.
Literary Criticism and the Systems Theory
Although I'm not really thinking that someone missed my weekly ramblings about all the innuendo that occasionally flutters from my brain through my finger tops into my blog, I still want to acknowledge towards those who do that I'm still alive and rambling. I'm still one of those old fashioned guys who believe that the … Continue reading Literary Criticism and the Systems Theory
About The Hole in the Wall.
On page 69 of Finnegans Wake we read: "Now by memory inspired, turn wheel again to the whole of the wall. Where Gyant Blyant fronts Peannlueamoore There was once upon a wall and a hooghoog wall a was and such a wall- hole did exist.", transcribed in HCEK p. 85 as: “Once, inspired by memory, … Continue reading About The Hole in the Wall.
The Maharajagar 