Wednesday, April 27, 2022

The Mines of Colorado and Douglas Darden

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  Paris Mill mining structure, Colorado I grew up in South Carolina. You don't grow up in South Carolina without having spent time hangi...
Thursday, April 14, 2022

Douglas Darden and the Tarot

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  Sketch for Frontispiece of Condemned Building , 1988 Douglas Darden does not strike me as someone who was interested in the occult, and in...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Decapitating Darden - Ritual, Magic, Human Sacrifice, and Secret Societies

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  Acéphale, by André Masson I have previously said and I will continue to reiterate that Douglas Darden was likely more influenced by George...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Schizoanalysis & Schizoschedio - Deleuze and Guattari's Influence on Douglas Darden

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  Charlie Day, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia While recently revisiting Darden's essay "Architecture of Exhaustion" (Pr...
Thursday, March 10, 2022

What does Darden mean by "Underbelly"?

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Detail of self-portrait in Condemned Building . An iconic term used by Darden to express his interest and fascination with taboo, transgress...
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Monday, February 28, 2022

Clemens Court or Ifadeum - Douglas Darden's Precursor to the Melvilla

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  Samuel Langhorne Clemen, Mark Twain, Greatest American Author? The Danteum by Giuseppe Terragni was a work of architecture so admired by D...
Thursday, February 24, 2022

Douglas Darden's Self-Portrait - An Examination of an Early Sketch

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  Early sketch for self-portrait of Condemned Building , c. 1988, & study photo for self-portrait As thoroughly as Darden's self-por...