Friday, September 30, 2016
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Wittgenstein's Beetle in a Box Analogy - YouTube
Sometimes I feel like a beetle in Wittgenstein's box.
Wittgenstein's Beetle in a Box Analogy - YouTube
The
great Iranian piano
and daf
player:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_H9oEQU5Tc&list=PLUjNc-EtILEWEi0z_YVkQap7XOkn6Ol0K
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Fifty
years ago, the Indonesian military began a savage
counterrevolutionary campaign against the country's Communist Party,
leading to the murder of hundreds of thousands in a country that had,
until that point, had the largest non-ruling Communist Party in the
world, with more than 1 million members. The genocidal war on the
communists was carried out with support of the U.S. government and
its allies, amid the Cold War conflict with the former USSR. The
slaughter of the communists also led to the downfall of Indonesian
President Sukarno and the beginning of the rule of the military
dictator Suharto.
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
note on 'Word on measure' from Stephen Jonas
"Expanding 'word on measure' to include sometime that's 'prose' but not always -- which is the dream be it super or economy minded and or where as I could go on in the head and make this thing's head a poem but I had it down before a sort of long hand job you see I type them after I do them the first time....."
-- Stephen Jonas, Selected Poems, ed. Joseph Torra, pp. 110-11.
-- Stephen Jonas, Selected Poems, ed. Joseph Torra, pp. 110-11.
Monday, September 26, 2016
MOSQUITO COAST, from SEAP
MOSQUITO COAST
Ice is civilization
I want to show those
People something about neighborliness
(Between a ford and a river
In a stream)
You never know
Who will become your client
Can you get us out of here
What do you do when the line is cut
Inalienable rights made right
Hold on Thelma (Butterfly) McQueen
Dead things go downstream
Vision has its place here
That's policy
But this isn't the jungle
Dad
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
When
Schoenberg told John Cage that he couldn't pursue his current path
and that he would hit his head against a wall, Cage replied that he
would proceed even if it meant he must hit his head against that
wall. "Would
you like to join a society called Capitalists Inc.? (Just so no one
would think we were Communists.) Anyone joining automatically becomes
president. To join you must show you've destroyed at least one
hundred records..."
- John Cage, Lecture on Nothing, 1949. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9YHdTNnwMM
Monday, September 19, 2016
Claudio Arrau - Chopin Fantasie Impromptu opus 66 - YouTube
Claudio Arrau - Chopin Fantasie Impromptu opus 66 - YouTube
One of fave pianists: puts the romantics into passionate overdrive, as only a Chilean-in-Germany could.
Saturday, September 17, 2016
Man Stroke Woman - BLUE!!! with subtitles - YouTube
Man Stroke Woman - BLUE!!! with subtitles - YouTube
#socialjustice
#octoberisdomesticabuseawarenessmonth
#socialjustice
#octoberisdomesticabuseawarenessmonth
“The development of the proletarian elite does not take place in an academic setting. Rather, it is brought about by battles in the factories and unions, by disciplinary punishments and some very dirty fights within the parties and outside of them, by jail sentences and illegality. Students do not flock in large numbers there as they do to the lecture halls and laboratories of the bourgeoisie. The career of a revolutionary does not consists of banquets and honarary titles, of interesting research projects and professional salaries; more likely, it will acquaint them with misery, dishonory and jail and, at the end, uncertainty. These conditions are made bearable only by a super-human faith. Understandably, this way of life will not be the choice of those who are nothing more than clever.” ― Max Horkheimer
Friday, September 16, 2016
“If some kind of sanity is something we want but secretly do not desire in our erotic lives, it is because sanity keeps us in the realm of the already known. Living within our means, living with a realistic sense of our limitations, is at odds with our experience of sexual desire. The love stories that have taught us how to love (such as Romeo and Juliet) are more about risk than complacency, about the ways in which desire takes people out of themselves and into a new life that feels like more life than any they have ever had before. The sanity lost in the madness of love is the sanity of knowing who one is. Only a culture that believes people could and should know themselves would have a use for the idea of sanity, because sanity is nothing if not the capacity and talent for self-recognition. But how does the self-knowing self recognize anything new about the self? To know one’s limits is to limit oneself to the self that one knows. So, sanity also always describes the familiarity we have with ourselves that we use for protection against catastrophic change. If it is part of our sanity to know ourselves, we have to ensure that what we know keeps us sane.” Adam Phillips, Going Sane: Maps of Happiness, Fourth Estate, 2005, p. 117.
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmpJkIiFEGk
“If Napoleon had grasped Beethoven,” Egon Friedell concluded in his cultural history of the modern age, “Europe might have a different face today.” As the philosopher Ernst Bloch says in his book The Principle of Hope, “Every future storming of the Bastille is intended in Fidelio.” In his review of the London première in 1832, Thomas Love Peacock provided a rough outline of the feelings successively put forth in this opera as a sort of subliminal language from which ideas emerge as sounds.
“If Napoleon had grasped Beethoven,” Egon Friedell concluded in his cultural history of the modern age, “Europe might have a different face today.” As the philosopher Ernst Bloch says in his book The Principle of Hope, “Every future storming of the Bastille is intended in Fidelio.” In his review of the London première in 1832, Thomas Love Peacock provided a rough outline of the feelings successively put forth in this opera as a sort of subliminal language from which ideas emerge as sounds.
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Monday, September 12, 2016
Sunday, September 11, 2016
Saturday, September 10, 2016
“The fundamentalist of Western capitalism, just like the more ostensibly religious fundamentalists that we hear more about, really believe that the only good life is one in which the enemy, the dissenters, the unpersuaded, are no longer part of the conversation; a world without communists, a world without Jews, a world without unbelievers, is the world as it should be. Those of us who are not drawn to what is loosely, and not so loosely, called fundamentalism; those of us who don’t want to be fundamentalist in a war against the fundamentalisms, have a very serious problem.” Adam Phillips, On Balance, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010, pp. 79-80.
Thursday, September 8, 2016
“When one goes at ideas directly, with hammer and tongs as it were, ideas tend to elude one in a poem. I think they only back in when one pretends not to be paying any attention to them, like a cat that will rub against your leg.” John Ashbery, Interview in What Is Poetry: Conversations with the American Avant-Garde, ed. Daniel Kane, NY: Teachers & Writers Books, 2003, p. 32.
Monday, September 5, 2016
Sunday, September 4, 2016
Saturday, September 3, 2016
Friday, September 2, 2016
Thursday, September 1, 2016
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