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rights set loose in the wild
Is there an ambiguity, a gap between formal freedom , formal democracy as practice and ritual: constitutional rights and freedoms, and an economic reality of liberty and a relative value, similar to Heidegger’s cultural relativism, and the inherent income disparities. … Continue reading
the storyteller: wayfaring in the tundra
In the development of some of the legends, the folklore, the myth, strands from Inuit traditions and Western traditions merge. An exhibit by a French born, Canadian priest who spent fifty years at Inlet Pond in the far north of … Continue reading
poussin the golden: divine means of abstract geometrical truth
He tried to live in France from 1640-42, called back by King Louis XIII and the urging of Cardinal Richelieu who felt it imperative that France had greater artistic luster.Claude Lorrain was also compelled to return. Poussin had been appointed … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernini, Cardinal Richelieu, Claude Levi-Strauss, Claude Lorrain, Clement Greenberg, David Carrier, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Keith Christiansen, king louis XIII, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Gauguin, Pierre Rosenberg, Richard Wollheim, Sir Kenneth Clark
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is-real-thing: endless solutions
It is difficult to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian issue in anything approaching what could be termed a “common sense” way. The conventional wisdom is that we are even handed, or that some form of pseudo-historical junk science as religion “special status” … Continue reading
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Tagged a.m. klein, alan schechner, Claude Levi-Strauss, henry wentworth monk, ivan c. rand, joshua neustein, lester b. pearson, margaret bourke-white, ram katzir, Rick Salutin, roee rosen, sigalit landau, Stephen Harper, Tom Sachs, yves engler
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BUG OFF ON THE AMAZON: “They Will Offer No Civilities”
When the Indians assemble here the stranger may have an opportunity of seeing the aborigines dancing to the sound of their country music and painted in their native style. They will shoot their arrows for him with an unerring aim and send the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aimé Bonpland, Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Russel Wallace, Candice Millard, Charles Darwin, Charles Waterton amazon, Claude Levi-Strauss, Ed Stafford Amazon, Edmundo Bielawski, Fabrice Demarthon, George Carlin, Henry Walter Bates, Janet Maslin, Jared Diamond, Lou Gold photography, Napoleon Chagnon, Piers Gibbon, Prince Kropotkin, Richard Spruce, simon horseford, Stephen Jay Gould
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KARL POPPER & SEEING IS BELIEVING: INDUCTION,DEDUCTION and SEDUCTION
” Well, I don’t think the bridge is all that immediate, but I do think you could develop a theory of art according to which art is a method of creating responses.( Karl ) Popper once said or wrote that … Continue reading
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Tagged Alton Kelley, Andy Schwartz, Bert Sommer, Bertrand Russell, Charles Darwin, Claude Levi-Strauss, David Gahr, David Hume, Edward Zerin, Ernst Gombrich, Francis Bacon, George Soros, Gregory Burke, Harvey Pekar, Henry Maine, James Frazier, Joachim Zelter, John Callahan, Joseph Campbell, Karl Marx, Karl Popper, Karl Rove, Mauro Chiappa, Max Weber, Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, Paul Levinson, Raymond Firth, Robert Anton Wilson, Robin Fox, Roger Sandall, Sigmund Freud, Stanley ''Mouse'' Miller, The Beatles, The Grateful Dead
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MONTEZUMA & THE LAST SUPPER
”Through cannibalism, the Aztecs appear to have been attempting to reduce very particular nutritional deficiencies. Under the conditions of high population pressure and class stratification that characterized the Aztec state, commoners or lower-class persons rarely had the opportunity to eat … Continue reading
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Tagged Aztec Cannibalism, Aztec Human Sacrifice, Bernal Diaz, Bernardino de Sahagun, Claude Levi-Strauss, Cortez, Gallo Gallina, Gary Hogg, Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan, Michael C. Meyer, Michael Harner, Montezuma II, Quetzalcoatl, Robert Carneiro, Sherburne Cook, William L. Sherman, Woodrow Borah
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DEPARTMENT OF ABERRATIONS
French artist Jean Dubuffet( 1901-1985) said that he was not a revolutionary but a permanent subversive. His work. however, coincided with attempts in other fields to dispute the accepted values of Western culture.The ethnologist Claude Levi-Strauss had convincingly shown that … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Wofli, Art Brut, Asger Jorn, Claude Levi-Strauss, Collection de l'art Brut Lausanne, Hans Prinzhorn, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Dubuffet Art Brut, Max Loreau
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Crocodile Hunting in Berlin
Until Death Do Us Part…But until then there is a lot of road to haul. How does one explain a condition that has been genetically stamped into humanity since the origins of the oral tradition and the hieroglyphic scrawling of … Continue reading
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