The moderate contrarian

This blog will be maintained and written by Mitch Hampton, a lay philosopher, jazz pianist and composer, essayist, cinephile and humanist and aesthete. I am also a cultural scholar of the 1970s, student of arts and letters

Wednesday, July 10, 2019

The Journey Of An Aesthete is here!

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photo by my producer Laurie Jill Strickland This post is the official announcement of my new podcast: Journey Of An Aesthete. Since the...
Friday, June 14, 2019

Journey of an Aesthete: New Project!

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As much as I critique or flat our rail against many (though not all) contemporary things I am about to head into arguably that most cont...
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Thursday, March 21, 2019

1970s Film and Visual Culture: A Polemic on Art and the case of "commercial" entertainment

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Here is my blunt principle for all the writing I have done and will continue to do on works of art: the absolute gold standard for unde...
Tuesday, January 8, 2019

A New Year's Note for 2019

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On these "pages" (!) I have railed against New Years wrap-ups - particularly when they are pleas for pity due to misfortune on ...
Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Another Very Brief Note On Isaiah Berlin

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I have been enamored with the thought, writing, and even the oratory of Isaiah Berlin ever since I first discovered his work sometime in ...
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I am a jazz pianist and composer, lay philosopher, cinephile, essayist, humanist and aesthete. Special interest in the culture of the 1970s. I am interested in all of the arts, and all mediums contained therein and run a podcast Journey Of An Aesthete
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