“Even a person who has not attained this Way [of the Samurai] sees others from the side. It is like the saying from the game of Go: "He who sees from the side has eight eyes." [岡目八目 / Okame hachimoku].”
Fascinating saying noted in the #Hagakure, c.1716. I'm exploring in draft article #LateralEyes
"My prayer is that my feet be just like hooves…that I need bedclothes no more than do lions, expensive food no more than dogs. Let the whole world be bed large enough for me, let me call the universe my home; and may I always prefer the food easiest to acquire."
"The Cynic" dialog, 4thC CE #Cynicism
"My prayer is that my feet be just like hooves…that I need bedclothes no more than do lions, expensive food no more than dogs. Let the whole world be bed large enough for me, let me call the universe my home; and may I always prefer the food easiest to acquire."
"The Cynic" dialog, 4thC CE #Cynicism
"defacing the currency"¹ became the catchphrase of ancient Cynic philosopher/critics because founder #Diogenes when young was accused and exiled for it, then adopted it as a metaphor for rejecting societal conventions.
¹Ancient Gr: paracharaxon to nomisma. Nomisma = 'coinage' or customary law/usage
"defacing the currency"¹ became the catchphrase of ancient Cynic philosopher/critics because founder #Diogenes when young was accused and exiled for it, then adopted it as a metaphor for rejecting societal conventions.
¹Ancient Gr: paracharaxon to nomisma. Nomisma = 'coinage' or customary law/usage
nice work, though the report didn't quite say what claimed, but that BP had the highest total of posts + comments mentioning city govt in the Blog category, and this category had the most (72%) overall.
Report: web.archive.org/web/20150424...
Mercury article: www.portlandmercury.com/news/rise-of...
while post-WWII Europe "rubble film" cinema considered reconstruction from devastation, US cinema grappled with an opposite: sudden, terrifying, preeminent global power and affluence: "There are eight million stories in the naked city.…" intoned #NakedCity (1948) www.facebook.com/615639298589...
while post-WWII Europe "rubble film" cinema considered reconstruction from devastation, US cinema grappled with an opposite: sudden, terrifying, preeminent global power and affluence: "There are eight million stories in the naked city.…" intoned #NakedCity (1948) www.facebook.com/615639298589...
#cosmopolitanism, the idea of being a citizen of the world, not just of some locality or community, is a key bequest of the ancient Cynic philosophers, specifically #Diogenes (c. 412–323 BCE) who when asked where he was from, replied "kosmopolítēs eimí — "I am a citizen of the world."
#Cynicism
"Now rock-shocking the mic as many times times the times tables/
Rock well to tell dispel all of the old fables/
'Cause I've been d-dropping the n-new science/
And I've been k-kicking the new k-knowledge/
An MC to a degree that you can't get in college…"
— #BeastieBoys, "The Sounds of Science" 1989
"Now rock-shocking the mic as many times times the times tables/
Rock well to tell dispel all of the old fables/
'Cause I've been d-dropping the n-new science/
And I've been k-kicking the new k-knowledge/
An MC to a degree that you can't get in college…"
— #BeastieBoys, "The Sounds of Science" 1989
#cosmopolitanism, the idea of being a citizen of the world, not just of some locality or community, is a key bequest of the ancient Cynic philosophers, specifically #Diogenes (c. 412–323 BCE) who when asked where he was from, replied "kosmopolítēs eimí — "I am a citizen of the world."
#Cynicism
increasingly I think the Cynics — classical antiquity's key radical minimalists / self-sufficients / abolitionists / social critics — got to the heart of things, and trail-blazed much of #Stoicism, Jesus, and later social activism. A nice intro: #InOurTime on #Cynicism www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
"Love, my, way… it's a new road/
I, fol, low… where my mind goes…"
— The Psychedelic Furs, "Love My Way." First single from Forever Now (1982). m.youtube.com/watch?v=LGD9...
#PsychedelicFurs #LoveMyWay #SongSignal
"One has to write as one lives, first for one's own sake, and then for the sake of a few congenial souls."
["Man muß schreiben wie man lebt, erst um sein selbst willen, und dann für die wenigen Teilnehmer"]
— #Goethe.
cf @quoteinvestigator.com quoteinvestigator.com/2011/01/17/f... #quotesky
yesss. that is kind of my whole gig and what I'm mostly working on, models and practices for accumulative, improving gatherings, and shapings and locatings in the larger conceptual and human cultural-factual landscape. my pet all-consuming project but also just everyday methodology #Toposcope
the best London-on-film gathering I've seen is this from, thanks and hello @tim-waterman.co.uk at the Bartlett www.tim-waterman.co.uk?p=456 who btw is originally from Pacific NW.
come to think of it, many of the iconic #ItalianNeorealism films seems plausibly decribable as Italian "rubble films." I whipped up a list docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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lately I've been reading some what might be called literary/critical analogs of rubble films, in ways — from contexts of and often focusing on ideas of rubble, fragments: #WalterBenjamin, and #Adorno's Minima Moralia: Reflections On A Damaged Life (1951), see readings thread bsky.app/profile/tmcc...
new one to me, goes to watchlist, thanks for great tip. I'm very fond of what might be called #BritishRubbleFilms — shot in the landscape of my mother's London childhood, and vestigially mine. Here's my list of examples: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... c/ @brianlibby.bsky.social
#Trümmerfilm
inscription at Portland's Central Library, "Guide thee to our *house*…[of] rich treasures" is ironically taken from, and notably altering perhaps for propriety, lines of 3rd Outlaw, in #Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona IV:1, inviting Valentine into their *crews*, not their 'house'. #quotesky
"Quotations in my works are like robbers by the roadside who make an armed attack and relieve an idler of his convictions."
— #WalterBenjamin (Schriften I, 571). Quoted in Hannah #Arendt, Introduction to #WalterBenjamin, Illuminations (1968), Section 3 "The Pearl Diver".
#Quotation #quotesky
"the entire private domain is being engulfed by a mysterious activity that bears all the features of commercial life without there being actually any business to transact.…soon there is no relationship that is not seen as a ‘connection’."
— #Adorno. #MinimaMoralia, 1951), Part 1, Sec 3. #quotesky
"the entire private domain is being engulfed by a mysterious activity that bears all the features of commercial life without there being actually any business to transact.…soon there is no relationship that is not seen as a ‘connection’."
— #Adorno. #MinimaMoralia, 1951), Part 1, Sec 3. #quotesky
cool, thanks! suggestion for the episode: have it include curated responses from other perspectives, e.g. not just from journalists, who tend to share a particular #positionality regarding GenAI from being in a traditional industry and social role/status much threatened / in-disruption from it.
to ask my usual Q: will/could this be streamed & recorded, esp podcast; if so could one get notified of where & when available, eg by registering now? Seems interesting, timely, why not offer to much wider publics?
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#WebinarGuide
"Quotations in my works are like robbers by the roadside who make an armed attack and relieve an idler of his convictions."
— #WalterBenjamin (Schriften I, 571). Quoted in Hannah #Arendt, Introduction to #WalterBenjamin, Illuminations (1968), Section 3 "The Pearl Diver".
#Quotation #quotesky
"Released from the ice are river and creek/
By the spring’s enlivening, lovely glance…
Everywhere stirs what develops and grows…"
— #Goethe, "Easter Walk" ( #Osterspaziergang) scene from #Faust (Part 1, 1808), tr. by Kaufmann. [pictured: #Boscastle, #Cornwall, UK]. #booksky #quotesky
“How were they to understand a writer whose greatest pride was "the writing consists largely of quotations—the craziest mosaic technique imaginable"—and the six mottoes at start: "No one…could gather any rarer or more precious ones"?”
—Hannah #Arendt on #WalterBenjamin 's Habilitation (~PhD thesis)