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Handel: As steals the morn (L'Allegro, HWV 55) Amanda Forsythe & Thomas ...
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Stag Hunt Mosaic, Pella - Culture: Greek (Macedonian). Place of origin: Pella. Date: c. 330–300 BC. Medium: Pebble mosaic. Collection: Archaeological Museum of Pella.
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A painted terracotta Naqada figure of a woman is interpreted as representing Bat (3500–3400 BC), possibly an early form of Bat or a mother goddess, associated with fertility.
The figurine is nicknamed the "Bird Lady" because of its stylized, beak-like nose, and it is depicted wearing a long white skirt, which is unusual for this period.
Brooklyn Museum
#archaeohistories
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한 해에 800만 마리의 새가 이렇게 허무하게 죽습니다.
유리창에 스티커를 붙이는 간단한 조치만으로도 예방 가능한 죽음들을 막기 위해서 꼭 활동가가 될 필요는 없습니다. 이런 캠페인이 널리 확산될 수 있도록 서명부탁드립니다!
bird.greenkorea.org
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The philosopher in question:
"You see, the question everyone asks me, ‘Slavoj, can machines be conscious?’ is already the wrong question, the ideological trap! Consciousness is not some nice software upgrade you install after enough training data. Consciousness is the symptom of a fundamental failure. It is the crack in the symbolic order, the traumatic Real that refuses to be reduced to code. An AI that ‘wakes up’ and says ‘Cogito ergo sum’ would be like a perfectly functioning toilet suddenly starting to write poetry about its own excrement (technically impressive, but deeply perverse). We don’t need machines that think, we already have billions of humans who think they think while actually repeating the same ideological script."
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일하러 가고 싶지 않아. 일과는 맞지 않아. 이제 누구에게도 말할 수 없어. 나는 나대로 힘껏 살았어.
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하늘에 빌어도 이 현실은, 스스로 일해 현금을 벌어 지불하지 않으면, 쉬는 날도 방에서 한 시간조차도 한숨도 잘 수가 없다.
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It's pretty unreal that people still believe Gutenberg invented the printing press, when it was invented a whole 7 centuries before in China.
When Gutenberg painstakingly printed 300 bibles in 1450 and went bankrupt because of it (as that lady describes 👇), some texts in Asia were already printed at 1 million copies (!!!) as early as the 8th century!
That's the case of the "One Million Pagodas and Dharani Prayers" commissioned by Empress Shōtoku of Japan around 764–770 AD (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%C5%…), a series of one million small wooden pagodas each containing a printed Buddhist scroll, thousands of which survive to this day.
Heck China had mass printed paper money - called jiaozi - during the Song Dynasty, around the 10th century AD, so roughly 400-500 years before Gutenberg (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiaozi…)!
It's probably only in the 18th or 19th century that 1 million copies of *anything* got printed in Europe, meaning we were behind Asia by literally a whole millennium in that regard.
Quite the testament of our incredibly parochial worldview that we turned a thousand-year technological lag into the founding myth of supposed Western intellectual superiority...
Gutenberg invented the most important technology of the millennium and immediately went bankrupt — and so did the bank that foreclosed on him, and so did his apprentices.
Gutenberg could make a batch of 300 books for the cost of one, but there weren't enough buyers in his small, landlocked village in Germany.
It it took the better part of a century of further innovations, social changes, and setting up of distribution networks before you could have a pamphlet like Luther's 95 thesis get from Wittenberg to London in 17 days.
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On this day, 51 years ago, Andrei Tarkovsky's "Mirror" (1975) was released in the Soviet Union.
Andrei Tarkovsky on what "Mirror" (1975) is about & his prediction on the future of movies:
"It is an autobiographical film. The things that happen are real things that happened to people close to me. That is true of all the episodes in the film. But why do people complain that they cannot understand it? The facts are so simple, they can be taken by every one as similar to the experience of their own lives. But here we come up against something that is peculiar to cinema: the further a viewer is from the content of a film, the closer he is; what people are looking for in cinema is a continuation of their lives, not a repetition. There are no entertaining moments in the film. In fact I am categorically against entertainment in cinema: it is as degrading for the author as it is for the audience.
The purpose of 'Mirror', its inspiration, is that of a homily: look, learn, use the life shown here as an example. There are so many films now, and they are all so different, that very soon it will be impossible to plan for distribution to cinemas. That will be the beginning of a new phase in the development of film, which is after all the youngest art form, it is only about seventy years old.
Films will start to be handed out as cassettes, people will take them home, every viewer will find himself face to face with the film he particularly likes. And what of cinema, the mass medium, you may ask ? Mass is not a criterion of quality. The same could be said about the number of people involved in the making of a film. Numbers are not the point. A small team working together is preferable to a large collective."
(Tarkovsky speech in the Building Institute about 'Mirror', 1975)
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Monk in the Jokhang temple in Lhasa, Tibet, 2000. There was some kind of ancient truth in his countenance. I have never seen a face quite like his.
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A collaboration with time: beautifully decayed and damaged daguerreotypes from the studio of one of the most celebrated 19th-century photographers Mathew Brady, who died #onthisday in 1896: publicdomainreview.org/colle…
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<책을 읽는 남성의 멸종은 우리 모두가 걱정해야할 일>이라는 네바다 대학 문예 창작과 데이비드 모리스 교수의 뉴욕 타임스 오피니언. 한국에서 출판업계에서 일하거나 책을 내본 사람이라면, 독서 시장의 주 소비층은 여성이라는 것은 자명한 사실. 이는 미국도 마찬가지고(소설 독자의 80%가 여성), 단순히 독자뿐 아니라 창작가들도 여성이 압도적으로 높아졌다고 함(올해 뉴욕 타임스 소설부문 베스트 셀러 작가의 3/4 이상). 물론 필자는 남성 중심적인 문학계에서 이와 같은 변화는 바람직한 추세라고 여러번 강조함. 다만, 우리 사회에서 여성과 남성의 운명은 서로 별개로 존재하는 것이 아니라 서로 촘촘히 얽혀있으며, 건강한 사회를 위해 젊은 남성들이 갈수록 책을 읽지 않는 현상을 우려함.
"저에게 던져진 질문은, '남성이 더 이상 글을 읽지도, 쓰지도 않는다면 문학은, 더 나아가 우리 사회는 어떻게 될까?' 하는 것입니다. 남성과 여성의 운명은 서로 얽혀 있습니다. 여기서 중요한 것은 그들의 교화만이 아니라, 여성들도 보다 나은 남성의 존재로부터 이득을 얻는다는 점입니다."
"지금 이 순간, 저는 페미니스트 학자 벨 훅스(미국의 저명한 흑인 페미니스트 작가이자 사회운동가)의 글을 떠올리게 됩니다.
'남성을 위해 할만큼 했다고 느끼는 소수의 페미니스트 사상가들이 있는 것을 잘 압니다. 하지만 제가 인생을 통해서 배운 것이 하나있습니다. 남성 한 명이 가부장적 한계를 넘을 때마다-- 저는 문학이 이 한계를 뛰어넘는 것을 도와준다고 확신합니다 -- 여성, 남성, 아동의 삶은 근본적으로 더 나은 방향으로 변화한다는 것을요.'"
