James Tuttle
Politically & Ethically:
I am a Left-Libertarian Market Anarchist, Co-Editor of the Left-Libertarian Journal ALLiance, Friend of Corvus Editions and a dues paying Fellow Worker of the Industrial Workers of the World.
I believe that justice and fairness share a dialectical relationship, which means that both can find full expression within a social context without contradiction or compromise.
I believe in an individualistic, supply sided, virtue ethic that is grounded in Aristotelian categories.
I regard the principle of non-aggression as hollow or brittle if it is not united to and guided by a principle of non-oppression.
My banner is the black flag and across its uncorrupted field you will discover the watchwords: Liberty, Equality, and Solidarity!
And I really like cats.
Aesthetically:
My principal interests in art revolve around theory and criticism. My favorite forms of expression are theater and music. I find myself more interested in the craft behind the “art” and the impact of the “art” on audiences then with the “art” itself. At this moment my theory of aesthetics tends to fixate on four cryptic statements:
1) Art as a love letter written to your reincarnation.
2) Theology as a stillborn language of aesthetics.
3) Art as Perichoresis “the way in which the Persons of the Holy Trinity reciprocally contain one another while remaining what they are in their otherness from one another.” (Feel free to substitute the Holy Trinity of Father, Son, and Divine Spirit with Audience, Artist and Craft – I do.)
4) Art as an Actaeon Stumble (Ovid III.138-252): “Actaeon loses his way and chances upon the goddess Diana in the midst of a hidden grove, naked and bathing with her handmaiden nymphs. Enraged by this insufferable encounter with a mere mortal, Diana curses Actaeon by transforming him into a stag. … Actaeon the Stag shortly becomes the target of his own hounds, whom he can in no way communicate with to convince them of his “true” identity. The hounds tear him to pieces, Actaeon’s friends urging them on and lamenting the “absence” of Actaeon himself at this serendipitous occasion.” — Alfred DeStefano III, partial quoted summary of Actaeon’s tale.
Aesthetic concepts or mysteries that I hold, in my own way, in high regard: Sense of Life, Gematria, Mysticism, Object of Longing, Ecstatic, Paradox, Dialectics, Family Resemblance, Eudaimonia, Outlaw…
