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A word on my last few posts: I’m currently reading Gregory Orr’s book Poetry as Survival in which he very nicely re-describes the Nietzschian aesthetic notion that (Dionysian) art is always already a confrontation of the subliminal sense, present perpetually at the edges of phenomena, of dis-integration and dis-order. That we (somewhat compulsively) remake events into experience through art, and thereby seek to get a handle hold on the double threats of death and irrelevancy that are always nipping at our heels. Our modern aesthetic being so Nietzschian (thanks to Freud!) it made me wonder if a different perspective might be embedded in our own pre-Nietzschian tradition?