{"id":63,"date":"2014-10-01T13:01:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T17:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?p=63"},"modified":"2017-06-15T13:26:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T17:26:41","slug":"modern-in-the-historic-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"‘Modern’ in the historic sense"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"turner<\/a>
J. M. W. Turner: Ulysses deriding Polyphemus, Homer\u2019s Odyssey 1829<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Roger Kimball explains Britain’s Turner Prize<\/a> in all its philistine slaying glory:<\/p>\n

What makes the Turner Prize pathetic as well as noxious is its banality, its utter predictability.\u00a0 The Prize pretends to be daring, challenging, transgressive, original. But the only thing it successfully transgresses is our patience.\u00a0 As for originality, its penchant for scatological eroticism was fully exploited by Dada a century ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because I’ve been reading so much of this manosphere stuff (maybe I’ll explain that in a future post), I automatically thought of [Trigger warning: fun ahead] the graphic in this post over at Alpha Game: The argument for patriarchy<\/a>. When I first came across it, it was a spit-out-your-coffee-laughing moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roger Kimball explains Britain’s Turner Prize in all its philistine slaying glory: What makes the Turner Prize pathetic as well as noxious is its banality, its utter predictability.\u00a0 The Prize pretends to be daring, challenging, transgressive, original. But the only thing it successfully transgresses is our patience.\u00a0 As for originality, its penchant for scatological eroticism…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Q4T3-11","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}