It is language that tells us about the nature of a thing, provided that we respect language’s own nature. In the meantime, to be sure, there rages round the earth an unbridled yet clever talking, writing, and broadcasting of spoken words. Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in [...]
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Today’s XKCD reminds us all of the legacy of scientific interpretation. Hermeneutics has finally come full circle into everydayness. Munro must have spent some time obsessing over those films. I wonder which axis gave him the most trouble. Maybe choosing the legend, and thus the vocabulary, was the hardest exercise. Another famous height creation [...] News from the other worlds of academic psychiatry and myth: Carl Jung’s unpublished Liber Novus (The New Book), a large heavy work bound in red leather binding and filled with esoteric illuminations and scripts is being published. Commonly known as The Red Book it was the result of an internal travelogue Jung took [...] Tags: Carl Jung |
Sometimes I am really surprised by Art. I can capitalize the concept in this case, since these are experiences I really esteem and they are infrequent. Falling into an exhibit of Christopher Pratt at the AGNS, his massive paintings underground… that was memorable. Another happy discovery was Andy Goldsworthy. I recently learned there’s a re-make of The Prisoner in the works. Patrick McGoohan passed in January of this year, so sadly he will not be involved. No idea if he had any input. Apparently, Jim Caviezel and Ian McKellen are both working on the 6-episode TV mini-series for the AMC channel [...] A radio program that’s been running for a few years off of BBC Radio 4 I think is worth highlighting. It’s “In Our Time”, hosted by writer and British peer, Melvyn Bragg. I know Bragg from the South Bank Show, the Adventure of English TV series and book, and he is a well [...] |
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