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Monday, June 27, 2011

Rand & Aesthetics 18

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Rand on rock music. While Rand was well known for being outspoken to the point of palpable rudeness, she could become, when she wanted to, ...
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Friday, June 24, 2011

Friday Night Whim-Worshipping 2.

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Seeing commenter A was in the mood for something a little denser, we are happy to oblige. Update: Seemed a bit glitchy, so here's the s...
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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Friday Night Whim-Worshipping

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Rand & Aesthetics 17

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Rand on "modern music." Ayn Rand's most extended published take on "modern music" appears in her "Art and Cogn...
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Friday, June 17, 2011

Notes On Cultism in The Logical Leap: Why Anonymous Objectivists Can't Read.

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In reply to this post , an Anon Rand fan writes : I see that Daniel Barnes is still doing his dishonest blathering. He writes: “On p26, Harr...
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Thursday, June 16, 2011

Rand & Aesthetics 16

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Rand's aesthetic judgments about music. We get the full sense of the subjective and arbitrary character of Rand's aesthetics when w...
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Monday, June 13, 2011

Rand & Aesthetics 15

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Rand's theory of music. Rand's views on music reveal far more about her basic modus operandi than they do about music. Her theory ...
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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Notes On Cultism In the Logical Leap 3: The Stupid, It Burns!

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I was expecting The Logical Leap: Induction In Physics to be really, really terrible, and I have not been disappointed. Just to get a good ...
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011

The Gift That Keeps On Giving

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Yes, it's Atlas Shrugged Pt 2 . Estimated budget of Pt 1: $20m Current domestic gross of Pt 1: $4.6m ( via Boxofficemojo.com )
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Tuesday, June 07, 2011

A "Necessary Connection"?

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At bottom, Objectivist epistemology is based on a fundamental fallacy which leads at first to verbalism and then to an authoritarian turn. T...
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Monday, June 06, 2011

Rand & Aesthetics 14

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Style and "psycho-epistemology." With her over-emphasis on selectivity, her sense of life construct, and her invidious distinctio...
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Wednesday, June 01, 2011

Rand & Aesthetics 13

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Style in literature. Rand's remarks on literary style begin rather innocuous and vague, but quickly take on more sinister connotations ...
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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Rand & Aesthetics 12

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Plot-theme. Rand introduces yet another poorly thought out aesthetic construct. She explains "plot-theme" as follows: A cardinal ...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Do They Just Make This Stuff Up?

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We here at the ARCHNblog have long said that Rand's arguments are so intensely confused even her devotees are unable to extract coherent...
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Monday, May 23, 2011

Ayn Rand & Aesthetics 11

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Plot and character. When asked to name the three most important elements in fiction, Rand replied, "Plot, plot, plot." For Rand, ...
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Saturday, May 21, 2011

Saving The Appearances 2: Notes on Cultism in "The Logical Leap"

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If "The Logical Leap" is a Rand-cult book, we should expect it to conform strictly to the Prime Directive of cultism: that the Ay...
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Friday, May 20, 2011

Saving the Appearances: Notes on Cultism In "The Logical Leap"

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Before we look at the highly cultic nature of "The Logical Leap", I'd better explain some of the mechanisms a typical cult use...
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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Inside The Cultist Mind: 2

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So anyway, I finally got around to getting a copy of David Harriman's "The Logical Leap: Induction In Physics" . I've been...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Rand and Aesthetics 10

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Naturalistic Romanticism. Rand introduces one other category of hybrid Romanticism in addition to Byronism, as explained in the following p...
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Monday, May 16, 2011

What I Learned From Parodying "Atlas Shrugged"

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Ellis Weiner, author of the excellent parody Atlas Slugged: AGAIN neatly skewers the novel's, and the movement's, epic pretensions ...
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