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Last Class of Spring 2012 - Refuge - Term of Perfection of Wisdom Course at Institute Buddhist Dialectical Studies, Dharamsala, India
The distance between me and my faith is two miles..
half structured by pilgrims
half validated by pogromist pantomimes;
half stone paved by dialectical dialects of fantasy dramas and their subtle aesop’s
half tarmac-ked by the 5 yearly, bleachy blasphemous political rally rhymes;
half hummed by the echoes in the cathedrals, garbh-grahas and dream reverberated in the ruins of mausoleums
half composed in the hymms of deafening cacophonies at the prime time
Will you help me resurrect my astronomy domine?
Evan Holloway (American)
Dialectic, 2006
Cinder blocks, plaster, steel, brass, lighting, and lighting controller
"The Fontana Maggiore, a masterpiece of medieval sculpture, placed in the centre of Piazza IV Novembre (formerly Piazza Grande), is the monument symbol of the city of Perugia.
The fountain was prepared in a workshop and then assembled in the centre of the square; it was made of stone from Assisi. The fountain consists of two concentric polygonal marble basins, on top a bronze cup (by the artisan Rosso Padellaio from Perugia) decorated with a coloured bronze group of feminine figures (perhaps nymphs) out of which comes the water.
The lower basin is made up of 25 mirrors, each divided into 2 tiles that describe the 12 months of the year, each of which is related to a zodiac symbol. Each month is connected to scenes of daily life and the characteristic farming work. As in other contemporary sculptures from Europe, in which the months are represented, here the manual work obtains dignity.[5] In this basin manual labour is in fact represented together with the arti liberali (liberal arts), with philosophy, with characters from the Bible and the history of Rome; in this specific order:
• The month of January (a gentleman and his wife at the hearth – Aquarius)
• The month of February (two fishermen - Pisces)
• The month of March (the "spinario" and the pruning of the vineyard - Aries)
• The month of April (two allegories of spring - Taurus)
• The month of May (two Knights on Falconry - Gemini)
• The month of June (the harvest and flailing - Cancer)
• The month of July (the threshing and the division of wheat - Lion)
• The month of August (the fig harvest - Virgo)
• The month of September (the crushing of must - Libra and the grape harvest)
• The month of October (the filling up of casks - Scorpion and the construction of casks)
• The month of November (the ploughing - Sagittarius and the sowing)
• The month of December (the slaughter of the pork - Capricorn)
• The Lion Guelph and the Griffin of Perugia
• Grammar and Dialectic
• Rhetoric and Arithmetic
• Geometry and Music
• Astronomy and Philosophy
Two eagles, on the right one the signature of Giovanni Pisano
• The Original Sin and the expulsion from Eden
• Samson kills the Lion and Samson and Dalila
• David triumphant and Goliath defeated
• Romulus and Remus (represented as two falconers)
• The she-wolf that fed Romulus, Remus and their mother Rea Silvia
• Two of Aesop's fables (the fox and the crane and the wolf and the lamb)"
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A sneak peak at one of the images we have created as part of a brand new Dialectical behavior therapy toolkit we have developed.
A playful yet rigorous take on the contemporary notions of what the nation means: diaspora, education systems, and dialectics of the personal and the political. The scale of the performance is simple: a minimal stage area marked by three podiums and a light bulb hanging from the ceiling. Humming slide projections are silenced and three women voices begin to read a script; they all live in the US, and they are currently fighting for US citizenship. There is a rotation of testimony; a repetitiveness of certain acts. The voices have an intense concentration on the words and dialogue exchange, which creates an intimate storytelling feeling in an intensely small space. Political history is provoked the form of conversation––through repetition and stuttering, a slowing of time and action, a pause in which to consider ethics.
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. -T.W. Adorno
As one who struggles with art's trenchant formalism while grappling with the many untidy ideas facing our times, as embodying an artistic practice that dialectically fuses the aesthetic with social engagement, and insofar as her art demonstrates that there is serious gravity that underlies all beauty and humor, Jenny Holzer can be called--unequivocally--a great artist of our time.
LIKE the Yankee clipperships and Arab dhows, the Venetian gondola is both a specific craft and part of a myth.
Strangely, the boat that has come to symbolize Venice, and that exists nowhere else in the world, may well not be Venetian in origin. There is a semantic wrangle about the word itself. Some etymologists think it is a corruption of the Greek konkula ("hard little peel"). Others trace it to khontilas (Greek for short boat'). A further explanation points to the similarity between the shapes of the gondola and a Roman boat of the fourth century AD with the hypothetical name fundula.
The first hard evidence of the gondola's existence in Venice goes back to 1094, when Doge (Duke) Vito Falier issued a charter granting certain Lagoon villagers the right to build a gondola. Over the centuries, the craft has evolved continually. Today's gondola is the product of unceasing changes and improvements made in response to the socio-economic development of Venice itself. Its history is a kind of maritime application of Darwin's theory of evolution, a dialectical relationship between a boat and its geographical and human surroundings.
Venice grew into a city from a loose federation of scattered villages. As its population increased, a network of canals was dug. The network spread and became increasingly dense until it formed the watery maze we know today, which the twentieth-century town planner and architect Le Corbusler "a perfect cardiac system". This very specific kind of urban development, which could never depend to a very great extent on animal transport, required a craft able to carry more and … www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9201139_ITM
Alas this signs belongs to neither a left-wing cafe nor some hotspot run by a dude hung up on dialectics and political economy. Instead it's a jewelry store in downtown Portland.
The emotional connection to South Bank resides to its role as a setting of experience and inner dialogue. Walking the long and narrow section of Thames' riverside development and experiencing it evoked thoughts, feelings, memories and interpretations, and enabled understanding of, participating in and portraying the city.
Being part and apart from the city at the same time, a detached observer of the populace and the landscape, revolved around the meaning of existence in an urban, metropolitan, public; a dialectic of self-definition and definition of the outside.
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Friends. Over the last few months the entire world has beBn debating the causes and repercussions of what has now emerged as the biggest crisis in the history of capitalism since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The country worst hit by the crisis is the United States of America, the citadel of capitalism. Already around 7.5 lakh jobs have been lost in the US and the figure is rising every month. The .
started from a financial meltdown following the sub prime lending crists in the US economy. In a span of a few months, most of the g·iant financial firms in the Wall Street like Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, AIG etc have come down like a pack of cards. These poster boys of neoliberalism are now begging for bail out packages from the Governments. The Bush administration alone has doled out $700 birlion to these firms. In almost every country, the companies which were the most desired places for young and talented job seekers have been laying off employees. The neoliberal ideologues who Ull sometime back were tirelessly propagating the virtues of the free market regime and asking the State to keep away from the economy are now advocating the cause of state intervention and .
regulation. Nicholas Sarkozy, the rightwing French President, !las declared that laissez faire has failed in today's world. Even the most optim~tic among the bourgeois economists also agree that the crisis will be deep and protracted. Whatever be the prognosis of "recovery, it is very clear that the present pattern of finance driven globalization cannot be sustained. So hard has this crisis hit the psyche of the people that Karl Marx's works have reappeared 0n the bestseller lists in the US and Europe! However~ the more important question which stare us in our face is the impact of this crisis on economies like ours. The magnitude of .
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the ' financial crash in terms of Insolvency and bankruptcies has been negligible in India so far, because of the relatively lesser degree of exposure of our financial sector (especially banking and insurance) to the global financial system. However, the kind of economic -. integration which symbolizes the world economy today will ensure that there is no escape from the global slowdown which has followed the crash. The sectors which are engaged in producing exportabies would be the worst hit. IT firms, financial companies and .
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major export hubs in the country like Muradabad, Tirupur and Surat are already witnessing job cuts and layoffs due to slackening of .
demand for exp0rts. There Is already a paranDia building up in business schools and other professional educaijonaJ institutes about very few recruitments this season. The most ironical aspect in our country is the response of our policy makers to the present situation. At a time when even the most .
·. ardent proponents of neoliberal economic policies have woken up to the fact that the days of unregulated financial flows and ~neolberalism are .(}ver, the UPA Government has been doing exactly the opposite. Completely ignoring the fact that it was the detennined "._resistance of the Indian people to financial liberalization of our banking and insurance sectors, which reduced the .
wNrabUity of our financial-system, the UPA government has decided to go ahead with allowing more foreign investment in the ~f·V&,;,\· ~ilsurance~sector and is.:nco~a.ging speculative activities with the hard earned money of Indian people. A clear reflacn,on of.wher-e ll1s govemr:nenfs priontiestlJe 1s evident from the fact that our Prime Minister has been doing meeting after meeting wtth the ~.wigs in the country but has not find 1t worthwhile to give a hearing to trade unions, peasant organizations and other which represent the sections which would be the worst hit by the slowdown. Bailouts for the corporates and pumping Into the financial systemwill do little good to the ordinary people whose jobs and livelihoods are at stake. What is needed at .
ts~aostrong fiscal int~rvention in the form of more public investment and social expenditure and scrapping of absurd laws like ReS,OnsibiHty an~ Budgetary Management Act, which puts a ceiling on the fiscal deficit (and hence spending of the .
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ai.Udden everyone is:.finding sense in the Left's opposition to neoliberal reforms. Mainstream magazines like the Outlook, which SO lOng ago tenned the Left as "dinosaurs'l of the Jurassic Age are doing cover stories titled "Did the Left Save India". In an ~the second German edition of Capital, Volume I, Marx had noted: "The contradictions inherent in the movement of society lmpr~ss tl)emselves upon the practical bourgeois most strikingly in the changes of the periodic cycle, through whfch runs, and whose crowning point is the universal crisis. That crisis is once again approaching, although as yet but in stage; and by the universal:ty of its theatre and the intensity of its action it will drum dialectics even into the heads of upstarts of the new, holy Prusso-German Empire." Similarly, the current global financial crisis and the onset of the .
mto have drummed dialectic-s into the heads of the enthusiasts of neoliberalism and globalisation..
. attempts by the champions of the free market, to save capitalism through state intervention and public finances, mark a.
--~ fatJure of the finance~riven globalisation process. This spectacular failure, besides reenergizing the resistance against .
globalisation, Will also have repercussions in terms of weakening the hegemony of the US and strengthening the trend multipolarity in world affairs. For the Left, this presents an opportunity to strengthen the progressive movement worfd wide carr.Y forward the struggle for a world free from the exploitation and uncertainties/ which are a hallmark of capitalism. SFI invites .
student ~community to participate In a Symposium organised by Anveshan, Delhi Science Forum and Economic Research ::· ·.
rJdat/Qh, oo the current crisis of global capitalism and listen and interact with some of the most eminent minds in the Left, on how "perceive the present phase as an important event of our times. Sd/-P KAnand, President SFI-JNU Sd/-Roshan, Secretary SFI JNU .
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Contemporary blind-tooled vellum binding for "Philipp Melanchthon's "Erotemata dialectices" (Wittenberg: Johannis Lufft, 1548), with metal clasps
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Eight Durst Lambda prints on Kodak Metal paper, on Dibond panels with aluminium frames. Each cm.115x76,5. Installation total dimension cm.230x306.
Eight panels make the installation; each one is the combination of two photographs. This combination of two creates a reciprocal relationship. On one hand, we have a dialectic regarding the subject contents of the photos. On the other, there are two portions of space that each image occupies on the panel; those confront each other for the purely formal aspect of the composition.
In each panel each photo, or portion of space, communicates with the other but also with those making the remaining seven panels.