November 4, 2007 :: The Editors :: Comments Off
4 November :: Pakistan pres. Gen. Pervez Musharraf declares martial law, suspends constitution, fires chief justice, raising ire of world leaders; opposition politicians, top lawyers, including Chief Jutice Muhammad Iftikhar Chaudhry’s personal lawyer, were detained in raids across the country… “U.S. officials are considering granting Guantánamo Bay detainees substantially greater rights as part of an [...]
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November 3, 2007 :: The Editors :: Comments Off
3 November :: Senate subcommittee approves America’s Climate Security Act, legislation aimed at capping greenhouse gas emissions, now to be voted by full Environment and Public Works committee; bill touted as milestone in US climate policy; Sen. Lieberman has said it is the “Manhattan Project” for climate change that activists have long called for, bill [...]
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October 21, 2007 :: The Editors :: Comments Off
21 October :: Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, has stepped down, allegedly over differences with Pres. Ahmadinejad; Iran gov’t says there is no rift among leadership, diplomats, Larijani will attend meeting with UN representatives to ease transition to new negotiator’s team… At least 9 casualties reported in PKK raid on Turkish forces near Iraqi [...]
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October 16, 2007 :: The Editors :: Comments Off
16 October :: 1st official ‘baby-boomer’ begins collecting Social Security; as many as 80 million Americans from her generation will eventually collect the government pension payments… NY Times ‘The Caucus’ blog reports Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy would “Use both hard power and soft power; talk to your enemies and strengthen alliances with your friends; deal [...]
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September 30, 2007 :: The Editors :: Comments Off
‘PARA LLEGAR’ es una exposición que propone juntar un grupo de artistas, algunos establecidos y otros por darse a conocer todavía, del mercado coreano, en una muestra única en Barcelona. Habrá un espacio central con la exposición principal, y algunas muestras ‘satélite’ en otras galerías y espacios o culturales o de consumición. El propósito será [...]
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September 26, 2007 :: The Editors :: Comments Off
Former US pres. Bill Clinton’s Global Initiative (CGI) holds a major international stakeholders’ and donors’ conference each year in conjunction with the UN’s General Assembly, in New York City. This year’s convention brings together 1,300 delegates from 72 countries. 52 active or former heads of state are participating, in only the 3rd year of this [...]
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September 22, 2007 :: The Editors :: Comments Off
Sentido.tv :: In the wake of Mozambique’s long civil war, lasting from 1976 to 1992, a group of artists, sponsored by Christian aid, set up the Transforming Arms into Tools (TAE) project in the nation’s capital, Maputo. Sculptors use decomissioned weapons, and parts of weapons to make art, expressing the possibility of finding new ways [...]
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September 19, 2007 :: The Editors :: Comments Off
The world is facing a major environmental crisis, with multiple serious battles to fight on various fronts, if we are to avert crippling long-term environmental degradation. One fundamental problem is that post-industrial societies have not sufficiently divorced their economic activity from extreme contaminants like carbon-based fuels, so that special cases of exorbitant economic growth continue [...]
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September 4, 2007 :: The Editors :: Comments Off
4 September :: Greece political climate soured by nationwide fires; 67% of those polled believe fires started deliberately by arsonist conspiracy, 31% say foreign entities, while 26% suspect property developers; Christian Science Monitor reports "European Commission’s European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) estimates that 469,000 acres burned between Aug. 24 and 28 alone. The financial [...]
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May 16, 2007 :: J.E. Robertson :: Comments Off
La exposición y seminario “El mundo escrito”, capítulo más reciente de Café Sentido, culminó en la mesa redonda sobre los miles de idiomas en vías de extinción. La charla siguió la política y las metas del proyecto de forma excepcional: una mesa redonda, diálogo informal, puntos de vista apasionados, y la oportunidad de aprender, el [...]
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May 16, 2007 :: jr3o :: Comments Off
La exposición y seminario “El mundo escrito”, último capítulo de Café Sentido, culminó en la mesa redonda sobre los miles de idiomas en vías de extinción. La charla siguió la política y las metas del proyecto de forma excepcional: una mesa redonda, diálogo informal, puntos de vista apasionados, y la oportunidad de aprender, el uno del otro.
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May 2, 2007 :: staff :: 2 Comments
Un poeta trabaja en los rodeos y pertinencias de un universo propio, de unas ansiedades experimentadas y de un ambiente o dado o inventado. Pretende hacer llegar esa constelación de gustos y desgastes, conocimientos y acercamientos, al ámbito humano general. Es, por etimología, “creador” que busca descubrir, sintetizar, ampliar terrenos idiomáticos, expresar fórmulas y significados futuros, a través de una atención elevada, dirigida a los detalles de lo mundano y de los misterios del espíritu.
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March 1, 2007 :: The Editors :: Comments Off
Café Sentido is a roving exhibit space, which proposes to create environments for the showing of original artwork, the presentation of new authors and new views on old themes, and which includes events where artists, researchers, writers and others can come together to present or debate their visions of the world and of the human [...]
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February 1, 2007 :: J.E. Robertson :: Comments Off
El artista vive no un vuelo por otros mundos, no un éxtasis arrasador que funda naciones, no un ciclo sinfónico de soles derritiéndose. El artista vive la vida de este mundo, el artificio de las construcciones humanas y la autenticidad de lo que duelen o fascinan sus límites. Vive un océano de contactos y acercamientos, pero como con cualquiera, esos roces y tributos no se alejan más de la distancia de la mano, de los sentidos, y del fenómeno de un individuo que enfrenta el hecho de estar presente, deshilachando el tejido del todavía no.
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May 25, 2006 :: J.E. Robertson :: 3 Comments
Is the United States an “English-speaking nation”, or a place where all cultures are welcome to converge, mix and evolve? To answer this question, we must consider that there is a natural human tendency to fear what is perceived as the definite and invasive “other”, that which is different and which we feel can be categorized in a way that fits our worries.
The push to establish a single national language can only be sustained on the basis of a number of false premises. We will explore seven such lies and misperceptions here, all of a particular sort, having to do with a way of rationalizing one’s aversion to difference or to change. And, in each case, it is fairly easy to illustrate how the lie works against the interests of both a democratic society and American tradition itself.
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January 22, 2006 :: J.E. Robertson :: 3 Comments
In the summer of 2005, the Economist magazine led with a story entitled “After the Fall”. The article discussed in detail the problems inherent in what appears to be the most expansive boom real estate has seen since records began, and of all markets studied, only Germany, Japan and Hong Kong were not contributing to the inflation.
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December 20, 2004 :: J.E. Robertson :: One Comment
A great and resonant thinker dies, and a great and resonant newspaper publishes an obituary dismissing his work as destructive and “abstruse”. It is an unjustifiable communicative travesty. When Jacques Derrida passed away, in October of this year, the New York Times wrote that his work was an attempt to undermine Western culture.
The obituary was full of factual errors and infected with a hard-line bias against complex and rigorous thought… the facile and mistaken point of view that to distinguish between meaning and truth is to call for nihilist or morally bankrupt agendas in thought and politics… it failed to look at the work itself or the man himself and instead paraphrased poorly wrought critiques and conceptual gossip to try to discredit a monumental life of study in Western philosophy.
That complex and rigorous thought, involved in much of postmodern theory, which characterized Derrida’s research and theory, has proven vital to extending human understanding in disciplines as diverse as science, literature and policy. The Times obituary railed against this level of self-conscious complexity, accusing Derrida of questioning the very right of Western thought to exist at all. It is as if the goal were to declare, against all evidence, that we are not living at this moment, after what has been seen and done, as if nothing had been learned from political history, as if the 21st Century did not exist… because postmodern is not a philosophy, it is an era, and one not easily defined.
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February 10, 2003 :: J.E. Robertson :: Comments Off
It was the last night of the year, and we were visiting the belly of the whale: old shimmering Menäting, the Island Place. We sought the center of a culture of collective insight, a distillation of plunder and purchase, lend and lease, ache and expansion. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: temporary exhibit: Richard Avedon, Portraits (in black and white): floating above Fifth Avenue: visions out of time: an artful pillage of posture and concealment. It was a display of selfhood in multiple manifestation… an array of recorded vessels of suffering, suffrage, denial, awareness, harbors for history.
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