tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426830455075676436.post6992527108394455528..comments2023-08-10T14:16:15.338-04:00Comments on The Archives of The Diogenes Club: Truth And PornographySteve Polinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06095291939072131815noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426830455075676436.post-69730781057650309192012-03-11T15:13:34.374-04:002012-03-11T15:13:34.374-04:00I was thinking about photography and writing, but ...I was thinking about photography and writing, but you raise a good point about painting.<br /><br />According to German philosophers, the portraitist seeks the "fruitful moment" that distills the essence of the subject. Yet this distillation, what we'd call inner truth, is only a first-order approximation. It omits the exceptions and exceptions to exceptions. It is easier to swallow and the naive modernist would mistake this first-order approximation for truth. In many contexts the successive approximations converge so quickly that we can ignore these higher-order terms.<br /><br />In other contexts, the successive approximations do not converge so quickly and significant information remains in the higher-order terms. The propagandist, shill, and/or pornographer will not only ignores, but suppresses these higher-order terms.Steve Polinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06095291939072131815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426830455075676436.post-70725010658854579382012-03-09T17:44:49.198-05:002012-03-09T17:44:49.198-05:00Yet, does a painter's brush reflect the inner ...Yet, does a painter's brush reflect the inner truth on the canvas or does the child of shadow twist the truth into something more digestible for us to swallow.Mike Sawyerhttp://www.candlelightwriting.netnoreply@blogger.com