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March 2024- The Place of Aesthetics in Personal Biography
As of late in these posts I have been discussing my personal relationship with all sorts of art objects that happen to occupy a greater...
Mitch Hampton
Mar 1, 20247 min read
On Likes, Loves and Style
You can imagine my joy at seeing the particular quote that Bradley Cooper chose to open his biopic on Leonard Bernstein. In it he...
Mitch Hampton
Feb 1, 20244 min read
January: "A Most Personal Post"
With the turning of one year into another on this partly artificial, partly natural social calendar, I find myself moved to focus yet...
Mitch Hampton
Jan 1, 20249 min read
December post: On The Quotidian In Art
QUOTIDIAN, adjective: of or occurring every day; daily ordinary or everyday, especially when mundane “One of the things that always...
lauriesstorygarden
Dec 1, 20239 min read
Of Things Great and Small, Outer and Inner
What is the relationship between grand exterior events and the discrete, interior things I or we can call art? Or, rather, to be fair to...
lauriesstorygarden
Nov 1, 20239 min read
October Post: Demy, Varda and Our Reception of Styles
I don’t like labels that classify you and file you away as a little ‘romantic.’ Perhaps Lola was romantic, but Les Parapluies de...
Mitch Hampton
Oct 2, 20239 min read
Diversity, Beliefs, Democracy and Art
"I should make my own position as a philosopher clear. I'm not a relativist and I'm not an absolutist in the senses I have been talking...
Mitch Hampton
Jul 1, 202310 min read
June post: Cinephelia and Summer
"There is nothing quite like that moment when the lights go down and all our hopes are concentrated on the screen." Pauline Kael Readers...
Mitch Hampton
Jun 1, 20237 min read
May Post: Philosophy and Daily Life
In April I wrote at far greater length than I perhaps should have about Immanuel Kant. It immediately reminded me of Tim Scanlon's joke...
Mitch Hampton
May 1, 20237 min read
On Being An Archivist of One's Own Life
Last month I went into a little detail about my return visit to my former home of Boston. Embedded inside is my little theory about the...
Mitch Hampton
Apr 1, 20236 min read
March Post: The Reception of Art and Personal Experience
We like March. His Shoes are Purple — He is new and high — Makes he Mud for Dog and Peddler. Makes he Forests dry. Knows the Adder Tongue...
Mitch Hampton
Mar 1, 20236 min read
February: An Aesthete Travels in Middle Age
Many of our common social dictums, however hoary they may in fact be, contain at least partial truth as much as they do falsity. One...
Mitch Hampton
Feb 1, 20239 min read
On the Aesthetics of our Snapshots as History Turns
The month of January of course makes me think about the passage of time - both within single eras and from one era to the discontinuous...
Mitch Hampton
Jan 1, 20237 min read
Snapshots In Season
One of the results of having the immensely good fortune to be able to host this podcast has been the development of my “snapshot” idea or...
Mitch Hampton
Dec 1, 20225 min read
The End of The Phone
For what I now realize was quite a long period of time, from 1987/88 when first I lived on my own to about 2007 or so, the phone occupied...
Mitch Hampton
Nov 1, 20227 min read
"Acting in Character"
"Usually there is a protagonist who the audience watches the movie THROUGH. But then you need that OTHER guy in the story." (Ned Beatty,...
Mitch Hampton
Oct 1, 20229 min read
Styles of Back to School Prose
With September comes thoughts of endeavors that get categorized in our culture as intellectual pursuits. Part of this is of course the...
Mitch Hampton
Sep 1, 20225 min read
On Concepts, Categories and Lived Experience
"The time to make up your mind about people is never." Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story (Donald Ogden Stewart/Philip Barry/George...
Mitch Hampton
Jul 1, 20225 min read
The Presence of the Past
If I recall correctly, my last June post was in part a celebration and analysis of musicals, in particular my endless fascination with...
Mitch Hampton
Jun 1, 20226 min read
Why I am a Cinephile
What follows is an incomplete list/prose/poem: I am a cinephile because I actually believe what Robert Bresson believed about the camera...
Mitch Hampton
May 2, 20226 min read
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