This tenth session of the Peak Notions Book Club was, as always, a real joy. We had a good dig around in Victorian conceptions of the good and the beautiful as explored in Oscar Wilde’s now famous, then infamous, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Wilde declared not only that art is useless but that books are not moral or immoral. Both sentiments thrash wildly…
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The Picture of Dorian Gray: We discussed whether convenience is the new beauty, whether there are fresh ideas in art, and how beauty reveals what we value
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The digital world is full of voices (often loud and disgruntled), but this is a place where you won’t find the obvious perspective, or the one you see everywhere else. By an Irish writer, editor and ex-philosopher.
The digital world is full of voices (often loud and disgruntled), but this is a place where you won’t find the obvious perspective, or the one you see everywhere else. By an Irish writer, editor and ex-philosopher. 
