Stephen Hicks

In Education and the State Edited by Professor Katarzyna Wronska (Poland) and Professor Julian Stern (UK) London: Routledge Publishers, 2024 Mind-shift for 21st-Century Education: Entrepreneurism Stephen R.C. Hicks, Department of Philosophy, Rockford University, USA Abstract How do we educate students for jobs that do not exist yet? Education is preparation for life, and one’s work […]

The piece is broadly Postmodernist and specifically Symbolist, as it is recognizable objects (traffic barriers, flags, police tape) that are chosen, placed in a stylized space (gallery, prize competition) and with some textual suggestions (“austerity,” “Brexit,” “pandemic,” “hostile immigration policy”) so the viewer can infer the intended negative message about the state of the culture.

What does it mean to be a philosopher in the modern era?What made you decide on Philosophy?Religion-friendly philosophies contrasted to Science-friendly philosophies.Both contrasted to Skeptical-negative philosophies.What is Postmodernism, and why do some people become Postmodernists? Related: Is Postmodernism neo-Marxist? | Open College No. 23 | Stephen Hicks

Darkly amusing: Marcel Duchamp may have swiped the piece that made the 20th-century’s ‘conceptual’ [more accurately: ‘anti-conceptual’] and postmodern art world giddy: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/oct/15/conceptualist-art-fountain-is-fake-say-historians-marcel-duchamp Related: My “Why Art Became Ugly” article, explaining the evolution and devolution of high art’s variants during the 1900s The article was first published in 2004, based on a 2003 lecture in