Tag: Mark C. Taylor

January 31, 2013

"Philosophy has lost its way"

Read a guest post from Mark C. Taylor, author of Rewiring the Real.

January 30, 2013

A Q & A with Mark C. Taylor

Read an interview with Professor Mark C. Taylor, author of Rewiring the Real.

January 29, 2013

Rewiring the Real with Mark C. Taylor

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January 29, 2013

Mark C. Taylor on the interrelation of art, philosophy, and religion

Read the introduction, “Nexus,” from Mark C. Taylor’s Rewiring the Real.

January 8, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Badiou on Plato's Republic and Much More

We play catch-up this week as we include a couple of week’s worth of new titles: Plato’s Republic: A Dialogue in 16 Chapters Alain Badiou Rewiring the Real: In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo...

May 23, 2012

Mark C. Taylor on the state of modern higher education

Mark C. Taylor addresses problems and opportunities in modern higher education.

March 23, 2012

Mark C. Taylor on Andy Goldsworthy

We conclude our week-long feature on Refiguring the Spiritual: Beuys, Barney, Turrell and Goldsworthy, with an excerpt from Mark C. Taylor’s chapter on Andy Goldsworthy: Goldsworthy’s preoccupation with place is often misunderstood. Some critics summarily dismiss him as a druidic...

March 22, 2012

Mark C. Taylor on James Turrell and Roden Crater

“Roden Crater is the most ambitious work and might well turn out to be the most important artwork of our time. For pilgrims fortunate enough to journey into Turrell’s work, the world is, indeed, transformed.”—Mark C. Taylor In his chapter...

March 21, 2012

Is Matthew Barney the Most Religious Artist Working Today? — Mark C. Taylor Explains

As he explains in Refiguring the Spiritual: Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy, Mark C. Taylor was initially skeptical of Matthew Barney. However, as he became more familiar with Barney’s work, his opinion changed. In the following excerpt he explains the religious...

March 20, 2012

Mark C. Taylor on "Fat Chair" by Joseph Beuys

“It’s all about the fat.”—Mark C. Taylor on Fat Chair, by Joseph Beuys In Refiguring the Spiritual: Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy, Mark C. Taylor explores these four artists’, whose work, unlike that of Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, or Takashi Murakami,...

February 28, 2012

New Book Tuesday — Mark Taylor on Art and The Foundations of the American Century

The following titles are now available: Refiguring the Spiritual: Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy Mark C. Taylor Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations and the Rise of American Power Inderjeet Parmar Sacred Exchanges: Images in Global...

January 30, 2012

Mark C. Taylor: Is Modern Finance Ruining Modern Art?

“As art becomes a progressively abstract play of non-referential signs, so increasingly abstract financial instruments become an autonomous sphere of circulation whose end is nothing other than itself.”—Mark C. Taylor In a piece for Bloomberg View, Mark C. Taylor, author...