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So the corpse of the present is being preserved as a record.
Chogyam Trungpa • The Future Is Open: Good Karma, Bad Karma, and Beyond Karma
Art Matters
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The house as music and Twombly as the conductor. The maestro before the ancient world, gathering and collecting.
Joshua Rivkin • Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly
To sum up, by transcendent I mean a way of human knowing based upon an inscrutable yearning or calling with several attributes that coexist in varying degrees. It is a critique of existing…
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Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
In Praise of Shadows book by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
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Tisa Bryant’s Unexplained Presence (2007), Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work (1995), Julietta Singh’s No Archive Will Restore You (2018), and McKenzie Wark’s Reverse Cowgirl
Lauren Fournier • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
Poems, in this view, are essentially products of the right brain, whose ways of knowing are embodied, implicit, and appreciative of the uniqueness of things. In contrast, the ways of knowing by which the students were encouraged to study a poem were those of the left brain: disembodied, explicit, and category-making.
Henry Shukman • Original Love: The Four Inns on the Path of Awakening
It is in these modes and methods of self-cultivation and their extension to wider levels of community and universe that we might find the historical sources of a new universalism.