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Deleuze on Difference and Art

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:23:03 GMT

clipped by: syncopath
clipper's remarks: pics from Earth as Art.
views come through the eyes of Landsat -7 satellite.

1. Pinacate Volcano Field, Mexico.
2. Richat Structure in African desert of auritania.
3. Icefall, Lambert Glacier, Antarctica.
4. Ganges River Delta, India.
5. Volga River Delta flows into the Caspian sea.

(you may also refer to it as deterritorialized reflections coming out of our atmosphere ..-))

Clip Source: earthasart.gsfc.nasa.gov

Clip Source: larvalsubjects.wordpress.com

The intense world of differences, in which we find the reason behind qualities and the being of the sensible, is precisely the object of a superior empiricism. This empiricism teaches us a strange ‘reason’, that of the multiple, chaos and difference (nomadic distributions, crowned anarchies). It is always differences which resemble one another, which are analogous, opposed or identical: difference is behind everything, but behind difference there is nothing.

Every object, every thing, must see its own identity swallowed up in difference, each being no more than a difference between differences

We know that modern art tends to realise these conditions: in this sense it becomes a veritable theatre of metamorphoses and permutations. A theatre where nothing is fixed, a labyrinth without a thread (Ariadne has hung herself). The work of art leaves the domain of representation in order to become ‘experience’, transcendental empiricism or science of the sensible.

Clip Source: earthasart.gsfc.nasa.gov

Deleuze on Difference and Art

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:04:17 GMT

clipped by: syncopath
clipper's remarks: pics taken from Earth as Art.
views come through the eyes of Landsat -7 satellite.
(you may also refer to it as a deterritorialized reflections coming out of our atmosphere ..-))

1. Pinacate Volcano Field, Mexico.
2. Richat Structure in African desert of auritania.
3. Icefall, Lambert Glacier, Antarctica.
4. Ganges River Delta, India.
5. Volga River Delta flows into the Caspian sea.

Clip Source: earthasart.gsfc.nasa.gov

Clip Source: larvalsubjects.wordpress.com

The intense world of differences, in which we find the reason behind qualities and the being of the sensible, is precisely the object of a superior empiricism

This empiricism teaches us a strange ‘reason’, that of the multiple, chaos and difference (nomadic distributions, crowned anarchies)

It is always differences which resemble one another, which are analogous, opposed or identical: difference is behind everything, but behind difference there is nothing.

Every object, every thing, must see its own identity swallowed up in difference, each being no more than a difference between differences

Difference must be shown differing. We know that modern art tends to realise these conditions: in this sense it becomes a veritable theatre of metamorphoses and permutations. A theatre where nothing is fixed, a labyrinth without a thread (Ariadne has hung herself). The work of art leaves the domain of representation in order to become ‘experience’, transcendental empiricism or science of the sensible.

Clip Source: earthasart.gsfc.nasa.gov

Some More Routine Deaths

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:04:30 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Draw your own conclusions about the efficacy of western occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

A series of car bombings has killed at least 127 people and wounded 448 in the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

The first blast targeted a police patrol in the Dora district of the city. Four others occurred near official buildings within minutes.

Veteran politician Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, an ex-national security adviser, blamed al-Qaeda militants for the attacks.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

A rocket and a suicide car bomb attack on the office of Pakistan's intelligence agency in Multan city has killed at least 12 people, police say.

More than 25 others were injured in the attack in the Qasim Bela area in Punjab province.

The blast comes just a day after two bombs exploded in a busy market in Lahore, killing at least 48 people.

More than 400 people have been killed during a string of attacks mounted by Islamist militants in recent weeks.

Tags: militant activity

modern poetry

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:08:04 GMT

clipped by: doodleicious
clipper's remarks: am clipping this for a writer friend of mine..............

Clip Source: oyc.yale.edu

Modern Poetry with Professor Langdon Hammer

About the Course

This course covers the body of modern poetry, its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major practitioners. The authors discussed range from Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, to Stevens, Moore, Bishop, and Frost with additional lectures on the poetry of World War One, Imagism, and the Harlem Renaissance. Diverse methods of literary criticism are employed, such as historical, biographical, and gender criticism. view class sessions >>

This Yale College course, taught on campus twice per week for 50 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Spring 2007.

Tags: modern, poetry

Us and Them

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:35:25 GMT

clipped by: abailart

Clip Source: www.poemhunter.com

Father and Mother, and Me,
Sister and Auntie say
All the people like us are We,
And every one else is They.
And They live over the sea,
While We live over the way,
But-would you believe it? --They look upon We

As only a sort of They!

All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
And every one else is They:
But if you cross over the sea,
Instead of over the way,
You may end by (think of it!) looking on We

As only a sort of They!

Tags: rudyard kip;ing

Tolstoy on War and Light

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:17:34 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: You say if enemies, such as Germans, Turks, or savages, come to attack you, and if you do not make war, they will kill you all. This is an error. If there were a society of Christians who did no evil to anybody, and who gave the surplus of their labor to others, no enemies, either Germans, Turks, or savages, would torture or kill them. They would take what these Christians (for whom there would exist no difference between Germans, Turks, or savages) would give up to them. If a Christian is called upon to take part in war, that is the moment for him to testify the truth to those who do not know it.

Clip Source: en.wikisource.org

Christ has revealed to me that the fifth snare is ‘the distinction we make between our own and foreign nations.’ If, therefore, a feeling of enmity arises in my heart against a foreigner, I cannot help acknowledging, after a few moments’ serious reflection, that the feeling is a wicked one; I can no longer justify this feeling to myself by acknowledging the superiority of my own nation over others, or by the cruelty or barbarity of any other nation.

All that I formerly prized as something worthy of respect – love for our native land, pride in our country, and our administration in military exploits – now seems not only pitiful but also hideous to me. Cosmopolitanism, which I had formerly despised, now seems a noble thing to me.

Men linked together by deception form, we might say, a compact body. In the compactness of this body lies all the evil of the world.

Deeds, which bring the light to each man’s heart, can alone destroy the chain

this has gone on for eighteen hundred years.

Tags: tolstoy, 'what i believe'

Abel

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:57:54 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Demetrios Capetanakis, poet, philosopher and literary critic, died of an incurable disease in London in 1944, at the age of 32. During that time he completed seventeen poems which John Lehmann calls ‘one of the most astonishing literary achievements I have ever come across.

Clip Source: thatspoetry.wordpress.com

My brother Cain, the wounded, liked to sit

Brushing my shoulder, by the staring water

Of life, or death, in cinemas half-lit

By scenes of peace that always turned to slaughter

He liked to talk to me. His eager voice

Whispered the puzzle of his bleeding thirst,

Or prayed me not to make my final choice,

Unless we had a chat about it first.

And then he chose the final pain for me.

I do not blame his nature: he’s my brother;

Nor what you call the times: our love was free,

Would be the same at any other time; but rather

The ageless ambiguity of things

Which makes our life mean death, our love be hate.

My blood that streams across the bedroom sings:

“I am my brother opening the gate!”

(Demetrios Capetanakis)

Tags: capetanakis, abel

Intelligent Discussion Forums

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:34:03 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Although they are broadly 'philosophical', the sites I have looked at have categories across a wide range of subjects and ideas. There are several more on the site clipped. The ones I have looked at appear to be stimulating and courteous.

Clip Source: forum.philosophynow.org

http://forums.philosophyforums.com/

http://ilovephilosophy.com/phpbb/index.php

http://iloveopinions.com/

This site is I think a splinter group of ilovephilosophy. There are some very kind souls and brilliant thinkers here, and also some conspiracy theorist cranks.

http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Philosophy/ ... nd_Forums/

http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Science_in_ ... _Thinking/

http://directory.big-boards.com/

http://search.big-boards.com/result.php ... of+science

Tags: intelligent discussion forums

Walking the Talk

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:14:22 GMT

clipped by: abailart

Clip Source: www.gardendigest.com

Don't think you're on the right road
just because it’s a well-beaten path.
- Author Unknown

I was the world in which I walked.
- Wallace Stevens, Tea at the Palaz of Hoon

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an
unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the
medicine and psychology in the world.
- Paul Dudley White

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Meandering leads to perfection.
- Lao Tzu

He who limps is still walking.
- Stanislaw J. Lec

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
- Wallace Stevens

It is a great art to saunter.
- Henry David Thoreau, 1841

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to
fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
- Eddie Cantor

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.
- Antonio Machado

I like long walks, especially when they are taken
by people who annoy me.
- Fred Allen

Tags: walking

Health Care Kills Two Million in a Decade

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:32:41 GMT

clipped by: abailart

Clip Source: www.chron.com

Richard Flagg drowned in his own blood.

Stanley Stinnett choked on his own vomit.

Both were victims of the leading cause of accidental death in America — mistakes made in medical care.

Experts estimate that a staggering 98,000 people die from preventable medical errors each year. More Americans die each month of preventable medical injuries than died in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

In addition, a federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study concluded that 99,000 patients a year succumb to hospital-acquired infections. Almost all of those deaths, experts say, also are preventable.

A national investigation by Hearst Newspapers found that the medical community, the federal government and most states have overwhelmingly failed to take the effective steps outlined in the report a decade ago.

Consequently, over that period, as many as 2 million Americans have died needlessly of preventable medical mistakes.

Tags: health care

US Hospital Errors Kill 200,000 Each Year

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:29:23 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Interesting bit of history. I'm sure these days everything is just perfect.

Clip Source: www.reportingonhealth.org

Whether they involve wrong-site surgeries, poor physician handwriting or prescription dose miscalculations, medical errors are rampant in America’s health care system. Following up on its landmark 1999 study,“To Err is Human,” the Institute of Medicine in 2006 found that a hospital patient is the victim of a medical error every single day he or she is hospitalized. Most errors have no consequences, but a 2008 study of 2000-2002 Medicare data by the for-profit health quality evaluation organization HealthGrades estimated that nearly 200,000 hospitalized patients died from potentially preventable medical errors each year. The issue remains in the news as Medicare and other insurers are increasingly refusing to pay for extra medical care necessitated by preventable medical errors.

Tags: us hospital errors

One in Eight Americans Use Welfare for Food

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:38:40 GMT

clipped by: abailart

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

MARTINSVILLE, Ohio — With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children.

While the numbers have soared during the recession, the path was cleared in better times when the Bush administration led a campaign to erase the program’s stigma, calling food stamps “nutritional aid” instead of welfare, and made it easier to apply. That bipartisan effort capped an extraordinary reversal from the 1990s, when some conservatives tried to abolish the program, Congress enacted large cuts and bureaucratic hurdles chased many needy people away.

Tags: poverty

Understanding the psychology of Authoritarianism

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:19:32 GMT

clipped by: Lexica

Clip Source: www.boingboing.net

Mike sez, "Bob Altemeyer's excellent book 'The Authoritarians' is online in full pdf format. It's a result of 30+ years of research into what he calls 'right-wing authoritarianism'- right in the sense of 'might makes' rather than 'opposite of left'. It's a fascinating explanation of how the minds of this subset of the population works- or in some cases, fails to: how they are able to assiduously apply double standards, fail to notice inconsistencies in their beliefs, justify abominable behavior, etc. Somehow, knowing that these people really, truly, can't reason in the same way the majority of us can makes them a little less irksome, if not less frightening."

The Authoritarians

Tags: republicans, conservatives, sarah-palin, rush-limbaugh, james-dobson, authoritarianism, fascism, psychology

Open Learn Units on Climate Change

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:24:52 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Free learning units on climate change.

Clip Source: www.open.ac.uk

List of OpenLearn units related to climate change:

Climate change
Climate change is a key issue on today’s social and political agenda. This unit explores the basic science that underpins climate change and global warming.

Climate change: island life in a volatile world
What impact will global warming really have? This unit examines the potential problems faced by the people of the Pacific Island of Tuvalu as a result of rising sea levels. Where would you go if your island is only a few feet above sea level? Who would you blame?

Global warming
This unit provides an introduction to global warming. We will be considering the history of global warming by looking at the pattern of ice ages and analyisis of recorded temperatures. We will aim to gather meaningful information from this data. We will briefly assess the impact and influence of humans on global warming and, finally, we will examine climate models and how to predict future changes.

Tags: open learn, ou, climate change

Free Open University Courses

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:57:13 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Much more at site.

Clip Source: www.open.ac.uk

OpenLearn is now in its third year and its time for a change. OpenLearn will soon be expanding to become the hub for all Open University materials that are freely available to the public, including videos, podcasts and lots more interactive content.

Top five units

This month's five most popular OpenLearn units are: