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How to stay in touch with our biological origins in a world devoid of nature? The majestic nature that once inspired poets, painters and philosophers with a sense of awe and ecstasy no longer exists. Putting humanity firmly at the top of the food chain we have separated ourselves from...
By Murray Bookchin [Originally published in Bookchin’s newsletter Comment in 1964 and republished in the British monthly Anarchy in 1965.] I am posting part of the essay/manifesto (it can be found here in full): In almost every period since the Renaissance, the development of revolutionary thought has been heavily influenced by a branch...
From Xárene
A new book on the influence on art of our ability to perceive depending on the different cultural...
 
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From josh
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Nature has made a determined comeback In the 20 years since Chernobyl's reactor No. 4 turned a...
 
From A0013237932294
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Freedom of Creation is a design + research company based in Amsterdam. Their designers are...
 
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The great enhancement debate
What is described by Bernard Huberman as an ‘ecology’ of information ‘characterized by...
 
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The great enhancement debate
From How supercomputers enhance our understanding of genes Biological functionality is...
 
From meika
Adolf Loos' Ornament and Crime holds a favourite ammunition of mine in defense of immateriality: I have therefore evolved the following maxim, and pronounce it to the world: the evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects. How would I define what ornament is today? Ornament, a constant in decoration culture,...
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I was waiting for Mona to drive her VW Beetle through the gate I had opened. We were entering...
 
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Start your own revolution
In the 'tricity' of Gdynia-Sopot-Gdansk in Poland there is a suburb with a cathedral, Oliwa...
 
From meika
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It must have been twelve years ago. I was sitting in the Retro Cafe down at Salamanca Place here...
 
From meika
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The posts at emplaced (in What happen to nature?) and the internation initiative (in terrestrials)...
 
From meika
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Leather Landscape (02003) silicone, acrylic, leather, human hair, clothing, timber from We Are...
 
From First Dark
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Every molecule, atom, in our body... is self-interested... is self-aware, and determined as...
 
From Counterform
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Paul Stamets, American mycologist & author, is a passionate believer that mushrooms/funghi,...
 
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Andy Goldsworthy is the zen master of environmental art. His process & work possess a deep...
 
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