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Gallery
We are publishing here a series of photographs taken over the last 18 years by the radical Irish artist Caoimhghin ó Croidheáin. Caoimhghin accompanies his pictures with quotations, and it is the interaction between image and word that creates a provocative impact. More can be found at his web site http://gaelart.net.
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The beauty of the democratic systems of thought control, as contrasted with their clumsy totalitarian counterparts, is that they operate by subtly establishing on a voluntary basis - aided by the force of nationalism and media control by substantial interests - presuppositions that set the limits of debate, rather than by imposing beliefs with a bludgeon. Noam Chomsky
Agadir, Morocco (1994) |
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We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free. Epictetus
Boston, USA (1998) |
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The man who gets angry at the right things and with the right people, and in the right way and at the right time and for the right length of time, is commended. Aristotle
Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1994) |
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all. Lucretius
Glencolmcille, Ireland (1989) |
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Dr J. O. Wisdom ... once observed to me that he
knew people who thought there was no philosophy after Hegel, and
others who thought there was none before Wittgenstein; and he saw
no reason for excluding the Ernest Gellner
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Discontent, therefore, may be considered adaptive
because it encourages the use of the imagination, and thus spurs
men on to further conquests and to Anthony Storr
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Lionel Trilling Thar Desert, India (1992) |
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Love of our country is another of those specious
illusions, which have been invented by impostors in order to render
the multitude the blind William Godwin
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At the behest of the criterion of authenticity, much that was once
thought to make up the very fabric of culture has come to seem of
little account, mere fantasy or ritual, or downright falsification.
Conversely, much that culture traditionally condemned and sought
to exclude is accorded a considerable moral authority by reason
of the authenticity claimed for it, for example, disorder, violence,
unreason. 