xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/POE/philfurn.html by Edgar Allan Poe (1840) In the internal decoration, if not in the external architecture of their residences, the English are supreme. The Italians have but little sentiment beyond marbles and colours. In France, "meliora probant, deteriora "sequuntur — the people are too much a race of gadabouts to maintain those household proprieties of which, indeed, they have a delicate appreciation, or at least the elements of a proper sense. How this happens, it is not difficult to see. To speak less abstractly. The people "will "imitate the nobles, and the result is a thorough diffusion of the proper feeling. There could be nothing more directly offensive to the eye of an artist than the interior of what is termed in the United States — that is to say, in Appallachia — a well-furnished apartment. Curtains are rarely well disposed, or well chosen in respect to other decorations. In the matter of glass, generally, we proceed upon false principles.
VentureBeat | Tech. People. Money. Political Arithmetick by Sir William Petty Sir William Petty Or a Discourse Concerning, The Extent and Value of Lands, People, Buildings: Husbandry, Manufacture, Commerce, Fishery, Artizans, Seamen, Soldiers; Publick Revenues, Interest, Taxes, Superlucration, Registries, Banks, Valuation of Men, Increasing of Seamen, of Militia's, Harbours, Situation, Shipping, Power at Sea, &c. As the same relates to every Country in general, but more particularly to the Territories of His Majesty of Great Britain, and his Neighbours of Holland, Zealand, and France . By Sir WILLIAM PETTY, Late Fellow of the Royal Society. London, Printed for Robert Clavel at the Peacock, and Hen. Mortlock at the Phoenix in St. Written: 3rd Edition, 1690Source: This e-text was prepared by Rod Hay and posted at the Archive for the History of Economic Thought, McMaster University, Canada, April 1, 1998. Foreword LET this Book Called Political Arithmetick, which was long since Writ by Sir William Petty deceased, be Printed. Preface. CHAP. Chap. Chap. Chap. Chap.
Abby Ohlheiser - The chosen ones Jena Lee Nardella, a young Evangelical American who runs a missionary non-profit, stood at the convention lectern and prayed for one of the men running for president. “May he know your presence, oh God, as he continues to serve as a leader of this nation, as a husband to Michelle and as a father to his daughters. Help him to see justice, love mercy and walk humbly with you.” Nardella was animated in front of a crowd which was excited, if perhaps a bit surprised, to see her. She was speaking to the Democratic National Convention, and praying for Obama, offering an opening prayer many would have thought would be more in place at the conservative Republican National Convention the week before. Nardella proceeded to offer a similar blessing to Obama’s rival Mitt Romney, perhaps a consolation for the apparent incongruity of a member of the Republicans’ traditional core demographic, evangelical Christians, participating in a Democratic event. Unfortunately I missed the fun.
Postcard from Rome We are currently witnessing a profound cultural implode which mirrors in its intensity the recent economic collapse. As the markets round on nations unable to sustain the debt brought upon them through bank bail-outs, and as the proverbial house of cards looks set to spectacularly fall once again, the arts assumes a familiar historical position. If, as Nietzsche wrote in On the Genealogy of Morality (1887), the first ever public pardon from a king to a subject was given as a show of strength, the patronage of the arts in times of prosperity is given as a tolerance of the useless, the frivolous, as a display of the confidence of an administration in its resistance to such whimsy. Yet, when that wealth has passed, when the administration is weak, the arts becomes a liability, the pardon is lifted and a reckoning begins, for it is in its uselessness, its detachment from reality that art’s political content resides. About the author Mike Watson is an art theorist and curator based in Italy.
Posts - Research Blogging Creative Citizenship and the Creative Industries | interactivecultures I always find that the more you know your audience (personally or professionally) the more daunting it is to stand up and present to them about your work. My lofty ambition for such occasions is to at least have the audience say ‘oh, that’s what he’s doing.’ Last week I presented at the first of our research seminars for the academic year. We lead the strand of research about Hyperlocal Publishing yet I tried give the presentation a broader context by outlining the circumstances in which the project came into being and emphasising that our research question is essentially one that ask questions about the nature of the Creative Economy. Indeed the element of the presentation about Hyperlocal occupies only the last third of our talk but most of the subsequent questions and tweets focused on it. I can feel us getting a little bogged down in that discussion already and my tendency to shrug my shoulders when people ask ‘is my blog Hyperlocal or not?’ PDF of above presentation slides.
At-HQ – Sharing some doubts about the creative industries and how these should be addressed by Cultural Studies | trinketization I have to admit that I have far more doubts and questions than certainties or answers about how the whole socio-economic paradigm opened by the creative industries should be addressed by cultural studies. The public discourse around the creative industries officially appeared in the UK in about 1996 and was heavily endorsed by New Labour related think tanks (such as DEMOS), to be later introduced by government as a model for economic development; now, twelve years later, academia has introduced the creative industries as a subject matter and this has opened many questions that I believe we should address. How are we going to relate to this economic paradigm? What kind of approaches are best suited to deal with the different conceptual issues raised? Now, almost 12 years later some voices have been raised alerting us that the estimate growth figures launched by the DCMS were slightly more optimistic that what the facts have shown us. Like this: Like Loading...
1. Cosmologies: perspectivism | Viveiros de Castro | HAU: Masterclass Series Cosmologies: perspectivism Can the anthropological theorist justifiably deny theoretical insight to his subjects? - Irving Goldman, The mouth of heaven The subject of these lectures is that aspect of Amerindian thought which has been called its "perspectival quality" (Arhem 1993) or "perspectival relativity" (Gray 1996): the conception, common to many peoples of the continent, according to which the world is inhabited by different sorts of subjects or persons, human and non-human, which apprehend reality from distinct points of view. I shall try to persuade you that this idea cannot be reduced to our current concept of relativism (Lima 1995, 1996), which at first it seems to call to mind. In fact, it is at right angles, so to speak, to the opposition between relativism and universalism. Clearly, then, I think that the distinction between nature and culture must be subjected to critique, but not in order to reach the conclusion that such a thing does not exist. Perspectivism in