http://www.artisticfailure.com/2009/06/17/cafa-qod-the-art-of-failure/ Where all creative intentions go to die. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:47:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://www.artisticfailure.com/2009/06/17/cafa-qod-the-art-of-failure/#comment-1758 Elizabeth Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:37:47 +0000 http://www.artisticfailure.com/2009/06/17/cafa-qod-the-art-of-failure/#comment-1758 If a person would have to be crazy to be a professional painter, then doesn' it follow that their behavior is normal for painters? The problem of faulty reasoning appears when we use our middle class working slave (i e. the expert white middle class male psychologist) definitions on a different breed of cat. If a person would have to be crazy to be a professional painter, then doesn’ it follow that their behavior is normal for painters? The problem of faulty reasoning appears when we use our middle class working slave (i e. the expert white middle class male psychologist) definitions on a different breed of cat.

]]> http://www.artisticfailure.com/2009/06/17/cafa-qod-the-art-of-failure/#comment-1741 SL Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:50:36 +0000 http://www.artisticfailure.com/2009/06/17/cafa-qod-the-art-of-failure/#comment-1741 sounds like a typical sulfur type to me... sounds like a typical sulfur type to me…

]]> http://www.artisticfailure.com/2009/06/17/cafa-qod-the-art-of-failure/#comment-1697 ann klefstad Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:46:57 +0000 http://www.artisticfailure.com/2009/06/17/cafa-qod-the-art-of-failure/#comment-1697 True that there are artists like this. Also true that sometimes they do wonderful work (certainly not always). The quality of the human doing the work is not an index of the quality of the work. Also, pathologizing oddity troubles me. I mean, in my life I have come to see consciousness itself as a kind of pathology, I suppose--and messy unpleasantness can seem less pathological to me than some other manifestations of the human. Human beings are ridden by all kinds of gods and demons, filled with force and mystery. Sometimes they are broken by it, or at least cracked. True that there are artists like this. Also true that sometimes they do wonderful work (certainly not always). The quality of the human doing the work is not an index of the quality of the work. Also, pathologizing oddity troubles me. I mean, in my life I have come to see consciousness itself as a kind of pathology, I suppose–and messy unpleasantness can seem less pathological to me than some other manifestations of the human. Human beings are ridden by all kinds of gods and demons, filled with force and mystery. Sometimes they are broken by it, or at least cracked.

]]> http://www.artisticfailure.com/2009/06/17/cafa-qod-the-art-of-failure/#comment-1662 Terence Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:18:21 +0000 http://www.artisticfailure.com/2009/06/17/cafa-qod-the-art-of-failure/#comment-1662 funny, you've basically outlined the DSM criteria for diagnosing narcissistic personality disorder... funny, you’ve basically outlined the DSM criteria for diagnosing narcissistic personality disorder…

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