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Senator Wendy Davis, Marina Abramovic, and the Art of the Filibuster
The Texas Senate was held in a Special Session Tuesday night in order to discuss SB5 which would greatly limit the accessibility of clinics authorized to perform abortions throughout the State. To give you a metric, it is estimated that under the law only 5 of 41 existing clinics would…
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Jesse Bransford / Work
Just some fabulous esoteric art works over at Jesse Bransford’s page from the I:MAGE exhibit. This space must be protected. Not from evil, but from confusion, from the distortion of the quotidian. This is not normal. Rules are being changed, if for only a moment. The door is blocked, and…
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I:MAGE Exhibition: Making Art is a Magical Act | The Wild Hunt
…from May 19th through the 25th London [hosted] an international collection of esoteric artists in a special exhibition, “I:MAGE,” sponsored by Fulgur Esoterica (publisher of the Abraxas journal). Boasting an impressive lineup of artists, both classic and contemporary, I:MAGE [promised] to bring more attention to esoteric art and show how these creative individuals…
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The Platonic Superman
Or, Man of Steel: Man of Gold Even though the Snyder/Nolan Superman film has been out now for a bit, let me begin by saying: SPOILER ALERT. I was finally able to see the blockbuster with my buddy-friend-guy, Christopher. The movie was more enjoyable than I thought it would be…
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Esoteric Symbols: The Tarot in Yeats, Eliot, and Kafka
Esoteric Symbols: The Tarot in Yeats, Eliot, and Kafka June Leavitt University Press of America, Jan 1, 2007 157 pages In this pioneering scholarly work on occult symbols in literature, the reader is offered a vivid look into how W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, and Franz Kafka three masters of symbolic expression…
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Power of Art: Rembrandt
Rembrandt’s success in his early years was as a portrait painter to the rich denizens of Amsterdam at a time when the city was being transformed from a small nondescript port into the economic capital of the world. His historical and religious paintings also gave him wide acclaim. Despite being…
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Hitchcock’s Soundtracks
Originally posted on The ancient eavesdropper: My ear kisses the ground as train engine tremors tunnel through subconscious Torn Curtain compartments, I Confess, its whistle-blow echoes a foreboding Hitchcock Psycho shower soundtrack, striking sharp spikes like nails across the chalkboard of my heart of hearts, hot and heavy iron rails…
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Caravaggio’s profane eye for the sacred – Eureka Street
Caravaggio was the Jim Morrison of his time — Rimbaud with a paintbrush. There was little that was pious or holy about the man with a gift for holy and sacred art. Caravaggio’s world was the world of drunken singing, back-alley brawls, prostitutes, thieves and ne’er-do-wells. Not for him the…
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Swedenborg’s Rough Guide to Heaven, Hell, and Other Places | Reality Sandwich
…Many readers otherwise open to Swedenborg‘s thought are put off by his accounts of hell. This includes figures like William Blake and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a pointed criticism of Swedenborg’s vision, which separates the two realms. For Blake, Swedenborg’s heaven is a…
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Walking Statue
Manchester Museum is getting a lot of publicity for a video of a statue that slowly rotates through the course of the day. It’s on a glass shelf, and it only moves when there are people walking nearby. via Debunked: Ancient Egyptian Statue Rotating by Itself in Manchester Museum.
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[Harper’s Index] | July 2013
This months grab bag of statistics from the always wonderful Harpers Magazine: …Portion of university teaching positions that are filled by graduate students or adjunct faculty : 3/4 Percentage of college professors teaching online courses who do not believe students should receive credit for them : 72 Number of U.S. states…
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Castle Perilous
“Revelation can be more perilous than revolution.” Nabokov Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether.
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