"Ours is an age of machines, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence, and it results in levels of abstraction and alienation from our bodies and from nature that expose us to dangerous intellectual perversions.
We live in an age of neo-docetism, distinguished by a certain hatred of the body."
Would the Docetists show Christ as having an omphalos? Assuming they had figurative art.
I can't imagine they would be that into figurative art or omphali!
"Ours is an age of machines, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence, and it results in levels of abstraction and alienation from our bodies and from nature that expose us to dangerous intellectual perversions.
We live in an age of neo-docetism, distinguished by a certain hatred of the body."
Both true and really well put, I salute you.
Thank you Iris!
This reminds me of the poem Epidermal Macabre by Rothke!!
Indelicate is he who loathes
The aspect of his fleshy clothes, —
The flying fabric stitched on bone,
The vesture of the skeleton,
The garment neither fur nor hair,
The cloak of evil and despair,
The veil long violated by
Caresses of the hand and eye.
Yet such is my unseemliness:
I hate my epidermal dress,
The savage blood's obscenity,
The rags of my anatomy,
And willingly would I dispense
With false accouterments of sense,
To sleep immodestly, a most
Incarnadine and carnal ghost.