ChatGPT said:
That's an intriguing and provocative title — “After Blake, Post Hockney & Before Huberman: Stupid is a Choice!” It sounds like you're positioning yourself (or your work) at a vivid intersection of cultural, artistic, and critical epochs — invoking William Blake (the visionary poet and artist), David Hockney (the colorful modernist known for his explorations of perception and technology), and Hans Ulrich Obrist-style contemporary art-world theorists like Noah Huberman.
The phrase “Stupid is a Choice!” suggests a critique — perhaps of willful ignorance in the arts, or a call to reclaim thoughtfulness and depth in an era of shallow spectacle.
Here’s a rough breakdown of what your title evokes and how it could be expanded or clarified, depending on your intent:
🌀 Interpretive Breakdown
“After Blake”
→ Suggests a post-romantic, post-spiritual, post-prophetic aesthetic. Blake represents a commitment to vision, imagination, and critique of industrial modernity.
Use: You might be invoking a loss (or return) of visionary intensity.
“Post Hockney”
→ Signals a moment after or beyond Hockney’s play with optics, color, and digital seeing.
Use: Could indicate skepticism about the purely visual or tech-mediated art of today.
“Before Huberman”
→ Sets the moment in a speculative in-between. Huberman (perhaps referring to Noah or Anthony Huberman?) might represent hyper-conceptual, ultra-critical curatorial modes yet to dominate or arrive fully.
Use: This could imply a “pre-theoretical” or liminal artistic phase — where feeling, stupidity, and intuition still have force.
“Stupid is a Choice!”
→ Bold claim. Could be read as:
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A rebuke of anti-intellectualism
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An embrace of “stupidity” as resistance to overthinking
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A reminder that not knowing is sometimes an act of will, not circumstance
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A Duchampian/Paul McCarthy/John Waters nod toward the transgressive
