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‘Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason’ 

Domeniul presimţirilor | Gellu Naum

Gellu Naum (1915–2001)   + English stuff Gellu Naum   Domeniul presimţirilor Există vaduri uitate nişte locuri în noi şi un drum care duce prin apă cineva mă strigă ar vrea să mă atragă într-acolo să dea cu o plantă în mine şi ce vină am eu pe lumea asta cu porţi de aramă apoi se face […]

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‘Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason’  Consciousness

‘I, with my light, feed the world’s mystery’ | Blaga Vibrations

Lucian Blaga (1895-1961) A national figure in Romania, he is barely known to the outside world because of the unfortunate circumstances surrounding his career. (the period between the two world wars) Trained in both Eastern Orthodox theology and classical philosophy, he developed a “speculative” philosophy that includes books on epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, philosophy of culture, philosophical […]

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Consciousness Philosophical Reverberations

Random Reflections On Art | Brian Eno

  #Learn How To See Listen “.. the central idea was about music as a place you go to. Not a narrative, not a sequence that has some sort of teleological direction to it—verse, chorus, this, that, and the other. It’s really based on abstract expressionism: Instead of the picture being a structured perspective, where […]

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Fields of Randomness | Aesthetics Hair | Nervous System

G. Hair

Ginger People The British comedian Catherine Tate (herself a redhead) appeared as a red-haired character in a running sketch of her series The Catherine Tate Show. The sketch saw fictional character Sandra Kemp, who was forced to seek solace in a refuge for ginger people because she had been ostracised from society. Hilarious comedy sketch […]

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Fields of Randomness | Aesthetics

Viktoria Modesta pop-star or prototype for the future?

Latvia-born singer and model Viktoria Modesta released her first music video last week on Channel 4, in which she proudly struts a series of beautiful prosthetic legs.   According to her website, she was born with a dislocated left hip and leg. At age 20, after 15 ineffective surgeries in Latvia, she made the radical decision […]