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Nova Spivek had an interesting post on Twine:(a smarter way to keep up with what you’re into) that I could not resist commenting on.Nova Spivek diagnoses:- Loneliness, social isolation, and social fragmentation are huge and growing problems- Our present communities are not working and most are breaking down or stagnating.in a comment on Nova's post Scott Newell observes that "Community is at the

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Summary of Part 1: = Art as an illustration of the worldview of the men of knowledge of the day: ........... but who are the men of knowledge in late modernity? ........... artists have to build up their own knowledge base = Knowledge as the outcome of: ........... an accumulation of knowings by scientists. ........... a philosophic vision of the human atom as particle of an unattainable whole

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The central thesis that runs through my rumblings about visual arts is that they are no more than the visual representation by artists, of the worldview of the men of knowledge of their days, for all to share. Under Animism they represent the worldview of the shaman, under Religious times they represent the creed professed by the priests and under Modernity they represent as many signs of the

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Abstract: It's like a given for all of us that people of different civilizations are and behave very differently. We all inherited stereotypes about "the other" but once we start to better know people from another civilization it seems that those differences are fast melting away. In "the other" we discover a human as ourselves. But is this the real thing happening or is it only a mirage given

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This post is a follow-up of my commentary in StumbleUpon about Christianity finds a fulcrum in Asia by Spengler that was published by AsiaTimes. ________________ "Christianity is the great liquidator of traditional society, calling individuals out of their tribes and nations to join the ekklesia, which transcends race and nation." writes a proud Spengler. Christianity has indeed been

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I write much about the meaning and societal sense of visual arts but how does my painting relate to my writings? Take a peak at my last 4 paintings they foreshadow the content of my next post. Acrylic on canvas. Size: 24" x 30" (61 x 76.5 cm) Acrylic on canvas. Size: 20" x 24" (50.5 x 61 cm) Acrylic on paper glued on hard wooden panel. Size: 17" x 22" (43 x 56 cm) Acrylic on canvas

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Seen from a historical perspective the form taken by visual art appears to have greatly evolved over time while its function has nevertheless remained constant, indeed, along 99.99% of its timespan visual art has been the visual representation of the worldview of the men of knowledge of the day, by the artist, at the attention of his fellow citizens.From early on humans understood that they

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This article is a follow-up of:- What is modernism after all?- Scientific visualization. Is it art?- About the ways of seeing reality.- Soulless science and rationalism - Etymology to the rescue of sense in art. In the air of our times something is brewing that we still can't see nor comprehend very well but that is bound to change drastically the way we understand what is reality. Four factors

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To make any sense about religion and rationality, it seems to me that, we have first to situate them in a societal evolutionary perspective and I'm afraid that the question has to be viewed from within the more globally encompassing framework of what is humanity and how it does operate. What I mean to say is that the reproduction and then the evolution of humanity (as an ensemble) necessitates a

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in The Guardian by Jess Smee In his latest Berlin performance Christoph Schlingensief underlined his reputation as the enfant terrible of the German art world - and now the storm of controversy is about to hit London.Images from the blood and vomit splattered stage production Kaprow City will form part of his new art installation. The piece, Last Hour, will be shown in a warehouse gallery in

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URL: 2006 Visualization Challenge WinnersURL: Slide ShowCockroach Portrait. David Yager. University of MarylandA Da Vinci Blackboard Lesson in Multi-Conceptual Anatomy. Caryn Babaian.Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PennsylvaniaBody Code. Drew Berry(1), Jeremy Pickett-Heaps(2) and François Tétaz.(1) The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne, Australia. (2) University of MelbourneIs

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When placed in a societal perspective (economic, social and cultural history) it seems to me that the seeds of modernism started to sprout with the plunder of Middle-Eastern luxuries during the crusades and the flow of trade that ensued along the following centuries.By the 15th, 16th centuries, art was transitioning in Europe from being exclusively at the service of religion to becoming the

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Alan Finder had an interesting piece this morning in the NYT: "Matters of Faith Find a New Prominence on Campus": Peter J. Gomes has been at Harvard University for 37 years, and says he remembers when religious people on campus felt under siege. To be seen as religious often meant being dismissed as not very bright, he said.No longer. At Harvard these days, said Professor Gomes, the university

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I first published this article on my Saatchi blog and on The way things are on 2006-07-05. What follows is a doctored version of that article.I just had an interesting read in The Guardian, an article by Jonathan Jones titled "Ways of seeing" (lost the link). It concerns the passage from a religious imagery to the modern imagery and how science and art inter-played in this process of change. This

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Since long I sense that the more knowings (parcels of knowledge) I accumulate the more evident it becomes how little I really know about the whole of reality. What I mean to show is that a large accumulation of knowings does not necessarily preclude knowledge. Here follows an awakening call from particle physicists and cosmologists that seems to say just that."Twenty years ago most physicists

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My friend Mark from New Delhi sent me the following comment about my post "About the ways of seeing reality":The word 'idea' has its roots in the Ancient Greek word 'idien' which means 'to see'.The root word for 'technology' is again an Ancient Greek word 'techne' which to the Greeks meant 'art'. That's very interesting indeed. The etymology of the words I write about seems to reinforce my

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Visualizing something that our eyes can't see....With science the first action, in visualization, is no longer going from the eyes to the brain as earlier, now the action comes first from the brain and then goes to the eyes in order to make things better understandable... and for sure visualization is always a question of service at the attention of the brain in the last instance.I guess that in

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Browse the 164 most important posts in Crucial Talk's table of content.The second stage of my ARTSENSE adventure, "The way things are", shall also be published on Laodan's blog and on my Saatchi blog.My daily clippings of what I find of interest in the media and on the net are posted on my new blog with StumbleUpon.Technorati tags: art, modern art, art theory, visual art, worldviews, painting,

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I'm now, entering a new phase of my work, preparing for the writing of "The way things are" or "About the emergence of a postmodern realism".I shall be publishing the first drafts in the form of posts on this blog and other web venues.If interested to follow my postings please subscribe to the RSS or Atom feed of this blog.What is ARTSENSE about?ARTSENSE is an adventure of mine that started

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Here is an article that comes somehow to the same conclusions that I express in this blog and also in my book Artsense (see top left and click on the coverpage).Late modernity ends in atomization. The individuals believe that they have the truth about everything and real knowledge is thus relativized. In other words that better reflect my own presentation the views and visions of the men of

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Before jumping to the description of civilizations and culture, I guess that a summary of the thoughts presented earlier would be usefull.1. The road of humanity.This model is based on the "Wave theory" by Dr. Chaim H. Tejman2. Worldviews.We know from history that humanity went through 3 successive worldviews:- animism: it lasted for tens of thousands and perhaps as long as hundred of thousands

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The future is not given.The future is non-determined.The future can't possibly result out of a straight line projection from a limited and subjective reading of the present... there are ups and downs, order is followed by chaos and out of chaos emerges a new form of order that we just should not have the pretension to define for the good reason that at the point of bifurcation or at the

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Worldviews are transmitted from one generation to another over the long haul.A worldview, as its name implies, is a view of the world a shared understanding of reality. When we speak about reality what we mean is nothing more than our perception, our understanding, our consciousness about our environment from infinitesimal to infinity and our place inside that environment.Reality is inaccessible

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I concluded my last post with the following words: "The European and by extension the Western civilization finds its roots in Christianity. In contrast the Chinese civilization seems to have been built directly out of its Animist societal experience". The ground where both civilizations sprouted and the roots they grew could thus not be further apart.It is generally accepted that humans' present

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In Western eyes, the traditional model of societal development that has been teached for ages goes something like this. (The timeline goes from left towards right.)We should be aware that this is somehow an Eurocentrist model and it should thus not be generalized to the rest of the world. But let's nevertheless see what its application returns from a comparison between the developments of Europe

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