Tony Walker
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15,273 appearances
26 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Tony Walker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's a very Lovecraft in of ancient Egypt with its catacombs and embalmed dead.
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We talked about his um
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Art for art's sake.
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art with no moral that needs no moral religious or practical justification.
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I think there are two things there I'm trying very clumsily to tease apart.
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And the first is this idea of art as a transcendental function to bring
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uh enlightenment into the world in some sense, an aesthetic enlightenment, not necessarily a a a rational or a a thought enlightenment, but uh or even spiritual but aesthetic, you know, to say that they're three different things, which probably I think they they may be.
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And um and then this so that's the highfalutin version of it.
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And then the other one is, you know, y you can just have something 'cause it's beautiful and that's it.
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Without any any demand for the
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Uh for it to be transcendental, you know.
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That's what I'm trying to say.
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So um
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So this uh it becomes an object of taste, if you like.
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So art for art's sake
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without an appeal to the
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uh transcendental which I've been going on about is it's a different appeal.
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It's uh having a beautiful thing, but of course that leans into the idea which is so suffused in visual art, even so, that there is a certain class of people who appreciate
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Things that that the normal crowd just doesn't see.
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So these are people of taste, and these are they cultivate objects of taste.
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