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All in the Family
Question: Why is that so many of our leaders or future leaders have genealogical connections to old power or royalty? http://bit.ly/2hN0al Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are not the only political odd couple who share a family tree. Sarah Palin is linked in her lineage to Franklin Roosevelt and Princess Diana… via bookofjames
Linguistic Archaeology
Edo Nyland: In the following articles I will show many major languages which were invented by formulaic distortion and manipulation of the ancient language which Genesis 11:1 described as: "Now the whole world had one language". This was followed by Genesis 11:7, which instructed the religious leaders of the day: "Let us confuse their language so they can no longer speak to each other". And that is exactly what happened, all over the world.
Also posted in Language, Science, Technology Tagged Comparative method, Language, linguistics, Natural language, Social Sciences, Word
A Comment on the Orwell Diaries
“Our spirits, as well as the physical world, would be appreciably different if Orwell had not existed. Blair wrote nearly such a sentence about H. G. Wells. But i believe it applies particularly to him for our times.” via Gilles Mioni | Comment on the Orwell Diaries today
Also posted in Asides, Literature, Philosophy, Politics Tagged Orwell Diaries, quotes
Cultural preservation, team sports, and the usual skinny
The anthropologist Margaret Mead once observed that in the 1930s, when she was busy remaking the idea of culture, the notion of cultural diversity was to be found only in the ‘vocabulary of a small and technical group of professional anthropologists’. Today, everyone and everything seems to have its own culture. From anorexia to zydeco, [...]
Also posted in Anthropology, Asides, Language, Politics Tagged Culture, multiculturalism, perception
American Revolutionaries on Ovation
The end of July closes out Ovation TV's terrific American Revolutionaries event.
Also posted in Art, Literature, Music, Photography, Poetry Tagged Culture, Ovation, tv
Unthinkable Futures by Kevin Kelly and Brian Eno
This list of unthinkable futures — probabilities we tend to dismiss without thinking — was published 15 years ago in the Summer, 1993 issue of Whole Earth Review. Our intent was less to correctly predict the future (thus the silliness) and more to predict how unpredictable the actual future would be. (via Kevin Kelly | [...]
Also posted in Anthropology, Asides, Comedy, Music, Politics, Technology Tagged humor history future ideas eno kelly
The Future of Making
Two future forces, one mostly social, one mostly technological, are intersecting to transform how goods, services, and experiences—the “stuff” of our world—will be designed, manufactured, and distributed over the next decade.
Also posted in Anthropology, Art, Business, Design, Technology Tagged Art, crafts, creation, creativity, distribution, evolution
Naropa Poetics Audio Archive
The Naropa University Archive Project is preserving and providing access to over 5000 hours of recordings made at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. The library was developed under the auspices of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (the university’s Department of Writing and Poetics) founded in 1974 by poets Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg. [...]
Also posted in Asides, Poetry Tagged Literature, naropa, poetics, Poetry, spoken word
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
So I tell her all this stuff, and I think, “Okay, we’re going to have a conversation about authority or social construction or whatever.” That wasn’t her question. She heard this story and she shook her head and said, “Where do people find the time?” That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. [...]
Also posted in Anthropology, Asides, Business, Technology Tagged Business, electronic revolution, History, industrial revolution, media, Technology, tv, web, web 2.0, work
Hard-wired for the ups and downs
I’m here not to praise elitism but to understand it, not so much through a history of elites but by talking about elites in prehistory. Human beings are naturally hierarchical and they like arranging themselves into hierarchies of skill, age, wealth, competence, experience, whatever. We can deny it if we want, but we all know [...]
Also posted in Anthropology, Asides, Politics Tagged Anthropology, Art, hierarchies, History, poverty, Science, Social Commentary, sociology, wealth
Moses: Stoned Immaculate
High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week.
Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem wrote in the Time and Mind journal of philosophy.
Also posted in Anthropology, Politics, Science Tagged awareness, bible, consciousness, drugs, moses, psychedelic, Religion, spirituality
On the Road with the Beat Generation in Austin
Beat Literature t-shirts are available at Book People through March to coincide with the Beat Generation exhibit at the Harry Ransom Center / University of Texas at Austin.
Also posted in Art, Literature, Poetry, Reckon Tagged allen ginsberg, austin, beat poetry, Exclusive, exhibit, gregory corso, harry ransom center, jack kerouac, Literature, Poetry, university of texas, william s. burroughs 5 Comments
It’s time to embrace American royalty by Glenn Greenwald