Marilyn Ferguson - Wikipedia Marilyn Ferguson (April 5, 1938, in Grand Junction, Colorado – October 19, 2008) was an American author, editor and public speaker known for her 1980 book The Aquarian Conspiracy which is connected with the New Age Movement. A founding member of the Association of Humanistic Psychology,[citation needed] Ferguson published and edited the well-regarded science newsletter Brain/Mind Bulletin from 1975 to 1996. She eventually earned numerous honorary degrees, served on the board of directors of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and befriended such diverse figures of influence as inventor and theorist Buckminster Fuller, spiritual author Ram Dass, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Ilya Prigogine[citation needed] and billionaire Ted Turner. Ferguson's work also influenced Vice President Al Gore, who participated in her informal network while a senator and later met with her in the White House. Youth and early writing career[edit] The Brain Revolution and Brain/Mind Bulletin[edit] Aquarius Now[edit]
Henri Lefebvre Henri Lefebvre (French: [ləfɛvʁ]; 16 June 1901 – 29 June 1991) was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist, best known for pioneering the critique of everyday life, for introducing the concepts of the right to the city and the production of social space, and for his work on dialectics, alienation, and criticism of Stalinism and structuralism. In his prolific career, Lefebvre wrote more than sixty books and three hundred articles.[1] Biography[edit] In 1961, Lefebvre became professor of sociology at the University of Strasbourg, before joining the faculty at the new university at Nanterre in 1965.[7] He was one of the most respected professors, and he had influenced and analysed the May 1968 students revolt.[8] Lefebvre introduced the concept of the right to the city in his 1968 book Le Droit à la ville[9][10] (the publication of the book predates the May 1968 revolts which took place in many French cities). Lefebvre died in 1991. The critique of everyday life[edit] "Change life!
Internet Sacred Text Archive Home Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait', by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno This is an utterly overwhelming piece. The ultimate time and motion study, it's been described many times since its debut at Cannes last year, but for those unfamiliar with the idea, Gordon and Parreno set up 17 cameras to follow Real Madrid 'galactico' footballer Zinedine Zidane through the course of an average La Liga game. That's it. They follow Zidane the player, not the match. The idea, in Parreno's words, was to "make a feature film which follows the main protagonist of a story, without telling the story." It's certainly not a traditional documentary - there is no exposition of the enigmatic Zidane's life amidst the celebrity culture of Madrid, or of his French-Algerian heritage, growing up in the mean streets of Marseilles. Without this, the film has only Zidane, and his movements, to portray. Given Gordon's previous work are studies of "time, movement, image and sound", football is an alluring subject. But this is also about portraiture, very clearly, and perhaps narrative too.
Margaret Fuller - Wikipedia Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850), commonly known as Margaret Fuller, was an American journalist, editor, critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. She was the first full-time American female book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States. Born Sarah Margaret Fuller in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she was given a substantial early education by her father, Timothy Fuller, who died in 1835 due to cholera[1]. She later had more formal schooling and became a teacher before, in 1839, she began overseeing her Conversations series: classes for women meant to compensate for their lack of access to higher education.[2] She became the first editor of the transcendentalist journal The Dial in 1840, which was the year her writing career started to succeed[3], before joining the staff of the New York Tribune under Horace Greeley in 1844.
You You (stressed /ˈjuː/, unstressed /jə/) is the second-person personal pronoun, both singular and plural, and both nominative and oblique case, in Modern English. The oblique (objective) form you functioned previously in the roles of both accusative and dative, as well as all instances after a preposition. The possessive forms of you are your (used before a noun) and yours (used in place of a noun). Usage[edit] Everyday speech among large sections of the population in Northern England commonly used and still uses dialect versions of thou, thee, thy, and thine. Informal plural forms[edit] Despite you being both singular and plural, some dialects retain the distinction between a singular and plural you with different words. y'all, or you all – southern United States[1] and African American Vernacular Englishyou guys – U.S.,[2] particularly in the Midwest, Northeast, and West Coast; Canada, Australia. Third person usage[edit] You is usually a second person pronoun. Etymology[edit]
Found footage Found footage is a filmmaking term which describes the use of footage as a found object, appropriated for use in collage films, documentary films, mockumentary films and other works. Use in commercial film[edit] Often fictional films imitate this style in order to increase their authenticity, especially the mockumentary genre. In the dramatized and embellished documentary-style film F For Fake (1975), director Orson Welles borrows all shots of main subject Elmyr de Hory from an old BBC documentary,[1] rather than fabricating the footage himself. Music video and VJing[edit] Practitioners[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] Further reading[edit] Cut: Film as Found Object in Contemporary Video, Stefano Basilico, Milwaukee Art Museum 2004.Found Footage Film, Cecilia Hausheer, Christoph Settele, Luzern 1992, ISBN 3-909310-08-7Films Beget Films, Jay Leyda, London, George Allen & Unwin 1964.Recycled Images: The Art and Politics of Found Footage Films, William C. External links[edit]
Holism - Wikipedia For the suffix, see holism. Holism (from Greek ὅλος holos "all, whole, entire") is the idea that natural systems (physical, biological, chemical, social, economic, mental, linguistic, etc.) and their properties should be viewed as wholes, not as collections of parts. This often includes the view that systems function as wholes and that their functioning cannot be fully understood solely in terms of their component parts.[1][2] Reductionism may be viewed as the complement of holism. Reductionism analyzes a complex system by subdividing or reduction to more fundamental parts. For example, the processes of biology are reducible to chemistry and the laws of chemistry are explained by physics. Social scientist and physician Nicholas A. History[edit] The idea has ancient roots. The concept of holism played a pivotal role in Baruch Spinoza's philosophy[8][9] and more recently in that of Hegel[10][11] and Edmund Husserl.[12][13] In science[edit] General scientific status[edit] In anthropology[edit]
Jean Baudrillard First published Fri Apr 22, 2005; substantive revision Wed Mar 7, 2007 French theorist Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) was one of the foremost intellectual figures of the present age whose work combines philosophy, social theory, and an idiosyncratic cultural metaphysics that reflects on key events of phenomena of the epoch. A sharp critic of contemporary society, culture, and thought, Baudrillard is often seen as a major guru of French postmodern theory, although he can also be read as a thinker who combines social theory and philosophy in original and provocative ways and a writer who has developed his own style and forms of writing. For some years a cult figure of postmodern theory, Baudrillard moved beyond the postmodern discourse from the early 1980s to the present, and has developed a highly idiosyncratic mode of philosophical and cultural analysis. 1. Early Writings: From the System of Objects to The Mirror of Production 2.
AlloCiné : Cinéma, DVD, Séries TV et VOD Spiritual ecology - Wikipedia Introduction[edit] Contributors in the field of Spiritual Ecology contend there are spiritual elements at the root of environmental issues. Those working in the arena of Spiritual Ecology further suggest that there is a critical need to recognize and address the spiritual dynamics at the root of environmental degradation.[citation needed] The field is largely emerging through three individual streams of formal study and activity: science and academia, religion and spirituality, and ecological sustainability.[1] Despite the disparate arenas of study and practice, the principles of spiritual ecology are simple: In order to resolve such environmental issues as depletion of species, global warming, and over-consumption, humanity must examine and reassess our underlying attitudes and beliefs about the earth, and our spiritual responsibilities toward the planet.[2] U.S. History[edit] During the modern age, reason became valued over faith, tradition, and revelation. Indigenous wisdom[edit]
Eric Hoffer Eric Hoffer (July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983) was an American moral and social philosopher. He was the author of ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. His first book, The True Believer, published in 1951, was widely recognized as a classic, receiving critical acclaim from both scholars and laymen,[1] although Hoffer believed that his book The Ordeal of Change was his finest work.[2] In 2001, the Eric Hoffer Award was established in his honor with permission granted by the Eric Hoffer Estate in 2005. Biography[edit] Hoffer was born in 1902 the Bronx, New York City, to Knut and Elsa (Goebel) Hoffer.[3] His parents were immigrants from Alsace, then part of Imperial Germany. Hoffer was a young man when he also lost his father. Hoffer left the docks in 1967 and retired from public life in 1970.[10] In 1970 he endowed the Lili Fabilli and Eric Hoffer Laconic Essay Prize for students, faculty, and staff at the University of California, Berkeley.
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