Tatlin's Tower. 2000 Russia 1 rub 50 kopeks stamp. Tatlin's Tower and Worker and Kolkhoz Woman by Vera Mukhina. Tatlin’s Tower, or the project for the Monument to the Third International (1919–20),[1] was a design for a grand monumental building by the Russian artist and architect Vladimir Tatlin, that was never built.[2] It was planned to be erected in Petrograd (now St.
Petersburg) after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, as the headquarters and monument of the Comintern (the third international). Plans[edit] Model of the tower, 1919. Evaluations[edit] Even if the gigantic amount of required steel had been available in bankrupt post-revolutionary Russia, in the context of housing shortages and political turmoil, there are serious doubts about its structural practicality.[4] Models[edit] Model of Tatlin's Tower in the courtyard of the Royal Academy, London. Description[edit] See also[edit] References and sources[edit] References Jump up ^ Honour, H. and Fleming, J. (2009) A World History of Art. 7th edn. Sources. Impressions of the Charnel-House. Away from all suns - Home.
The Politics of Ontology: Anthropological Positions — Cultural Anthropology. At first blush, “ontology” and “politics” make strange bedfellows. Ontology evokes essence, while politics, as modern, democratic, multiculturalist citizens tend to understand it, is about debunking essences and affirming in their stead the world-making capacities of human collectives. Yet this notion of a social construction of reality itself instantiates a particular ontology, and a powerful one at that—and here we also mean politically powerful. Still, as anthropologists we are attuned to the “powers of the weak”—to the many complex connections, some of them crucially negative, between power differences (politics) and the powers of difference (ontology).
How might “the otherwise” be rendered manifest ethnographically? Here, we need to remind ourselves that ethnographic descriptions, like all cultural translations, necessarily involve an element of transformation or even disfiguration. Notes References Alberti, Benjamin, and Yvonne Marshall. 2009. Bryant, Levi R. 2011.
Candea, Matei. AnthroBase - Social and Cultural Anthropology - A searchable database of anthropological texts. World-systems theory. A world map of countries by trading status, late 20th century, using the world system differentiation into core countries (blue), semi-periphery countries (purple) and periphery countries (red). Based on the list in Dunn, Kawana, Brewer (2000). World-systems theory (also known as world-systems analysis or the world-systems perspective),[1] a multidisciplinary, macro-scale approach to world history and social change, emphasizes the world-system (and not nation states) as the primary (but not exclusive) unit of social analysis.[1][2] Background[edit] Immanuel Wallerstein has developed the best-known version of world-systems analysis, beginning in the 1970s.[4][5] Wallerstein traces the rise of the capitalist world-economy from the "long" sixteenth century (c. 1450-1640).
Many other scholars have contributed significant work in this "knowledge movement".[2] Origins[edit] Influences and major thinkers[edit] World-systems theory was aiming to replace modernization theory. Dependency theory[edit] Gringo Trails. Coconut Revolution - "The world's first successful eco-revolution." - HQ - Full.
Ecological anthropology. Some societies have proven to be sustainable for centuries or even millennia. Others have degraded their habitat and depleted the natural resources in it to the extent of undermining their economic and social viability thereby leading to sociocultural disintegration and even collapse. Examples of sustainable societies are the highlanders of New Guinea, Inca of the Andes, Menominee in Wisconsin, Norse of Iceland, Pueblo of the southwestern region of the United States, San of southern Africa, Tikopia in the South Pacific, Tokugawa era Japan, Tonga in the South Pacific, and Yanomami in the Amazon between Brazil and Venezuela.
Examples of unsustainable societies that eventually collapsed are the prehistoric Anasazi of the southwestern region of the United States, central Classic Lowland Maya of Central America, Norse of Greenland, and Rapanui (Easter Island) in the South Pacific. However, there is considerable controversy surrounding some cases, especially the Maya and Rapanui.
(1 of 4) The Bomb Under The World - The Human Race: A Species at the Crossroads - by Gwynne Dyer. Nature–culture divide. The nature–culture divide, refers to a theoretical foundation of contemporary anthropology. Early anthropologists sought theoretical insight from the perceived tensions between culture, as a social entity, and nature, as a bio-physical entity. The argument became framed as to whether the two entities function separately from one another, or if they have a continuous biotic relationship with each other. Debate during the 1960s and '70s extended the debate to the role of women (as nature) and men (as culture). Western and indigenous concepts[edit] In Western society nature and culture are conceptualized as dichotomous (separate and distinct domains of reference). Some consider culture to be "man's secret adaptive weapon" [1] in the sense that it is the core means of survival.
Not all peoples make the distinctions between nature and culture, and for many the boundary is blurred. Sustainability[edit] Indigenous knowledge has been proposed as a solution. See also[edit] Nature versus nurture. Ecophenomenology | radicalhorizon. A New Geometry of fear :: the road from Smithson to Nelson February 15, 2013 · by simeon kaminski · in Academic art, Conceptual art, Contemporary Art, Environment, Galleries, geography, human geography, infrastructure, Research art, roads, Uncategorized · I’ve mentioned Robert Smithson before in a previous post and still haven’t quite satisfied myself (and probably never will) that whatever I’ve read and written about his work Asphalt Rundown adequately describes the profound influence this work has had on a particular type of environmental art.
Had Smithson survived into this decade, our account of […] Place, Anthropocentrism and Environment in the work of Smithson, Marshall, Sonfist, and Eliasson. January 29, 2013 · by simeon kaminski · in Academic art, Conceptual art, Contemporary Art, eco-criticism, Environment, geography, human ecology, Research art, Uncategorized · Standing Reserve: Performance and eco-criticism. The Ivory Tunnel: What is Ecological Phenomenology (Ecophenomenology)?
If environmental philosophy is a young field, ecological phenomenology as such is even younger, dating back perhaps two decades to foundational works, most notably Erazim Kohak's The Embers and the Stars (University of Chicago Press, 1984) and Neil Evernden's The Natural Alien (University of Toronto Press, 1985). Both works offer remarkably similar invocations to an encounter of environmental thought with phenomenology. In a lyrical and deeply personal paean to the "moral sense of nature" (13), Kohak asserts that "[we] must approach nature anew, undertaking no less than a phenomenology of nature as the counterpart of our moral humanity" (22). Evernden directly addresses the vitiation (and the possibility of redemption) of the environmental movement, observing that "[i]f what we are is entailed in the story we create for ourselves, then only a new story will alter us and our actions. ...
Ingrid Leman Stefanovic offers the following methodological account of phenomenological enquiry: Jakob von Uexküll. Jakob Johann von Uexküll, 1903 "Early Scheme for a circular Feedback Circle" from Theoretische Biologie 1920. Small circular Feedback Pictograms between the Text Schematic view of a cycle as an early biocyberneticist Jakob Johann Baron von Uexküll (8 September 1864 - 25 July 1944) was a Baltic German biologist who worked in the fields of muscular physiology, animal behaviour studies, and the cybernetics of life.
However, his most notable contribution is the notion of umwelt, used by semiotician Thomas Sebeok and philosopher Martin Heidegger. Early life[edit] The son of Alexander Baron von Uexküll and Sophie von Hahn, Jakob von Uexküll was born in the Keblas estate, Mihkli, Governorate of Estonia.[1] His aristocratic family lost most of their fortune by expropriation during the Russian Revolution. Uexküll was interested in how living beings perceive their environment(s). Umwelt[edit] Uexküll defines the umwelt as the perceptual world in which an organism exists and acts as a subject. Eco-phenomenology | How should we think of nature? What is Ecophenomenology? David Wood (2001) The Need for a Rapprochment with Naturalism In this section, Wood delineates naturalism from the phenomenological project, whereby naturalism is concerned primarily with the laws of causality.
He throws out a few adjectives that we might associate with naturalism: “functional explanations and relations of succession, conjunction, and concatenation” (78-9). The phenomenological standpoint, on the other hand, views causality as but one dimension that structures the possibility of factuality, and in particular, perception. My initial assumption would fall in line with someone like Heidegger, who contends that space time is an ontic consideration and that the goal of fundamental ontology is to unearth the intentional underpinnings that anchor this view. The problem with Wood’s intital question, I think is that he seems to be framing phenomenology and naturalism as diametrically oppositional.
The Plexity of Time Time as Invisible III. IV. V. VI. An Order of Forest: Notes on “Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection” by Anna Lownhaupt Tsing (Princeton University Press, 2005) | systems. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s most recent book proposes “friction” as a paradigm through which to understand the overlapping and often conflicting objectives of social entities that coalesce around the forest resources of the South Kalimantan region of Borneo. Tsing claims to pioneer a new method for understanding how “local” and “global” intersect through the actions of different groups such as the Meratus Dayak who inhabit South Kalimantan, Indonesian students’ nature clubs, Suharto and post-Suharto governments, foreign mining and timber corporations, and international and domestic NGO’s. While it has become quite commonplace to direct social-scientific fieldwork towards the study of local-global imbrications, Tsing’s work is noteworthy for her deft and continual movement between a particular place and its global tentacles—not only when chronicling the activities of the Meratus Dayak, but also when dealing with international NGO’s and corporations.
Offers a vivid image of global friction. Neil Postman. Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author, media theorist and cultural critic, who is best known by the general public for his 1985 book about television, Amusing Ourselves to Death. For more than forty years, he was associated with New York University. Postman was a humanist, who believed that "new technology can never substitute for human values". Biography[edit] Postman was born to a Jewish family in New York City, where he would spent most of his life.[1] In 1953, he graduated from State University of New York at Fredonia where he played basketball.[2][3] At Teachers College, Columbia University he was awarded a master's degree in 1955 and an Ed.D in 1958.[2] In 1959, he began teaching at New York University (NYU).[2] He died of lung cancer in Flushing, Queens on October 5, 2003.[2] Works[edit] Amusing Ourselves to Death[edit] Amusing Ourselves to Death was translated into eight languages and sold 200,000 copies worldwide.
Informing Ourselves to Death[edit] The Gnostic Religion: Amazon.co.uk: Hans Jonas. Book Description Publication Date: 16 Jan 2001 The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity Frequently Bought Together Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store. Learn more What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item? 4.0 out of 5 stars Most Helpful Customer Reviews 10 of 11 people found the following review helpful Format:Paperback "...all investigations of detail over the last half century have proved divergent rather than convergent, and leave us with a portrait of Gnosticism in which the absence of a unifying character seems to be the salient feature" - Hans Jonas, Preface, 1958 No modern writer that I am aware of has brought life to Gnosticism as Jonas has.
Jonas provides a broad sweep of the conditions at the time Gnosticism developed at the beginning of the Christian era. Lewis Mumford. Lewis Mumford, KBE (October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a writer. Mumford was influenced by the work of Scottish theorist Sir Patrick Geddes and worked closely with his associate the British sociologist Victor Branford. Life[edit] Mumford was born in Flushing, Queens, New York, and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1912.[2] He studied at the City College of New York and The New School for Social Research, but became ill with tuberculosis and never finished his degree. In 1918 he joined the navy to serve in World War I and was assigned as a radio electrician.[1][3] He was discharged in 1919 and became associate editor of The Dial, an influential modernist literary journal.
He later worked for The New Yorker where he wrote architectural criticism and commentary on urban issues. Mumford's house in Amenia. Introduction—“Animism” Anselm Franke For the Summer 2012 issue of e-flux journal we are very pleased to present a special “Animism” issue guest-edited by Anselm Franke, curator of the exhibition by the same name. Even if you missed Animism on tour in Europe since it began at Extra City and MUHKA in Antwerp in 2010, you have probably learned of its encompassing mobilization of the systems of inclusion and exclusion defining “science” and “culture.” The various stages of the exhibition have shown the discourse of animism to be a crucial skeleton key for releasing the deadlocks formed by the repressed religious, teleological, and colonial foundations of modernity—the hysteria within its narrative that continues to shape the exhibition formats and sensibilities we are tethered to. The fifth iteration of Animism is now on view at e-flux in New York until July 28.
—Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle A ghost is haunting modernity—the ghost of animism. . © 2012 e-flux and the author. Human Relations Area Files. Cities@manchester | University of Manchester. Aluna the Movie | Homepage. Naomi Klein: Green groups may be more damaging than climate change deniers. Canadian author Naomi Klein is so well known for her blade-sharp commentary that it’s easy to forget that she is, above all, a first-rate reporter.
I got a glimpse into her priorities as I was working on this interview. Klein told me she was worried that some of the things she had said would make it hard for her to land an interview with a president of the one of the Big Green groups (read below and you’ll see why). She was more interested in nabbing the story than being the story; her reporting trumped any opinion-making. Such focus is a hallmark of Klein’s career. She doesn’t do much of the chattering class’s news cycle blathering. She works steadily, carefully, quietly. It can be surprising to remember that Klein’s immense global influence rests on a relatively small body of work; she has published three books, one of which is an anthology of magazine pieces. First, though, she has to finish the reporting. You know, The Shock Doctrine, my last book, ends with climate change.
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