Time's Fool

Interrogating The Peninsular Individual: A Rumination on The Dialectical Relationship Constituting Individual Minds and Group Mind • Rubinoff: Art is the map of the human soul; each original piece is proof of the journey. As the artist navigates the unknown, the art adds to the collective memory. Art has been liberated to address the internal, intuitive reality of the collective human memory. Art is truth by metaphor. Call for Papers - Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park • John Donne: No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624), No. XVII • George Lakoff & Mark ...

Bitches Aint Shit A Capella This music video confronts "hostile black misgynothropic" music with a music style more usually associated with sacred music, even "Eurocentric white" music. A good example of the currently popular transgressive style in art and interpersonal signification.

The 12 million illegals here is twice the number of Jews generally considered to have been murdered by the Nazis. A major reason for the creation of the death camps was the enormous organizational difficulty of forcibly emigrating 6 million persons. (Cf., the documents and publications pertaining to the trial of Adolf Eichmann. E.g., Hannah Arendt, "Eichmann in Jerusalem.") The Diary of Anne Frank is one story of Christians hiding Jews to prevent them from being rounded up. It is not the only such case. The Underground Railway is what the informally organized opponents of slavery in America called the smuggling of slaves north to freedom prior to the Civil War. Does no one who claims to be in favor of deporting the 12 million have any imagination at all?!! The failure of critical thinking exhibted by the pro-deporters is astounding! The disruption of American society that would result from attempting such a massive inhumane project would be enormous. Not only the economic dep...

Judd: I have a friend who was in Desert Storm and he is adamant that we should not be providing the policing function that we are now. He saw first hand just how good we are at waging war and how difficult it is to provide the ongoing security function in a post war environment. It seems that if our military has a clear, definable objective, it functions very well. But when the objective gets muddled, as it does with security/policing of a populace, then it doesn't do so well. The increasing influence of Iraqi politics seems to be eroding our already limited ability to provide the policing/security functions. ------------ Jerry: The US military is now an occupation force in Iraq. The functions of an army of occupation are vastly different than the functions of an army of conquest. Consequently, both the structure and the organizational culture of the occupation units must be extremely different from the structure and organizational culture of the conquering units. To pretend that t...

Human beings interact with one another --inter-act. That is, when in the presence of another person, we are constantly responding to each other, to the words we speak, to the gestures we make, to the tone of each other's voice, to the clothes we wear, to the idea we each have of the other. Verbal communication, non-verbal communication, our ideas of our own social status and the status of the other person. . . . Each of these 'areas' includes a variety of symbols/signs/signals. Interaction between humans is mediated symbolically. We send each other signals and we respond to those signals. People in each other's presence --whether it is physical presence or presence mediated by text, or telephony, or TV or radio or film, or whatever-- are constantly engaged in a very subtle "dance" with each other. (The "realtime" media, of course, make possible more dynamic inter-action than the recorded media.) This is the dance of what sociologists call "s...

“Conventions: The Land Around Us” is a documentary film essay on the topic of cultural and political change. It takes as its particular subject matter the confrontations that took place between anti-war demonstrators and the US political establishment in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. While bringing to life the emotional and ideological dynamics of that historical moment, it also places it in the dual context of interactional analysis and the history of American Utopian movements. Poster; Description; Project Report.