David Bentley Hart: Beauty, Form, and Violence - Biola Art Symposium 2013

Violence & Peace in Contemporary Art: Biola Art Symposium 2013. March 2, 2013.
David Bentley Hart, is an Orthodox theologian, philosopher, and cultural commentator, whose specialties include philosophical theology, patristics, and aesthetics. 
Hart has been published in various periodicals including, Pro Ecclesia, The Scottish Journal of Theology, First Things, and The New Criterion. He has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of St. Thomas, Duke Divinity School, and Loyola College in Baltimore. Hart is the author of seven books including Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth (Eerdmans, 2004), which has been lauded by The Christian Century as "one of the most brilliant works by an American theologian in the past ten years." His two most recent books are The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? (Eerdmans, 2011), and The Devil and Pierre Gernet: Stories, his first work of fiction (Eerdmans, 2012).

[@BiolaUniversity]

That talk should be up within the next couple of days.

[@RomTankin]

I was thinking the same thing. It seems every lecture I watch begins with him making a joke about being sick.

[@elel2608]

2:24 creation is an act of gracious peaceful donation of being to beings

[@elel2608]

9:05 identity is first and difference secondary
10:10 all things must conform to the lifeless ideal; true apple has never been tasted
15:25 a collection of desiring machines (not a single being)
16:36 philosopher: does a violent clash with the real (disrupt all categories in order to get that sense of shock of difference)
24:15 violent stilling of the continuous tumult of perpetual differentiation (representation)
24:55 violence: trying to control being of dfferentiation
36:05 God of beauty who is coterminous with peace

[@elel2608]

4:50 Gilles Deleuze, violence and ontology with reference to the arts

[@elel2608]

7:15 regime of essence

[@phyzicsify]

Though I love DBH, it seems he is always sick whenever he is giving a lecture.

[@timba3olf568]

He was going through a period of bad health for several years in the mid-2010s, which is probably why he's always sick after travelling.

[@phyzicsify]

That would make sense, thanks for the info

[@DeflatingAtheism]

So to Deleuze, postmodernism was a reclamation of an essentially pagan metaphysic?

[@jonn_esternon]

16:15

[@metaspacecrownedbytime4579]

What they do not believe is that "The Apple" is Heaven. There is an ultimate.