Insanity: inside the Country of the Mind
Originally posted on Living in the Modem World:
Insanity
In his novel Queen ofAngels, set at the close of 2047, Greg Bear explores the concept of what he calls, “the Country of the Mind”. This, Bear postulates, is the “ground” for all our thoughts. A kind of virtual reality landscape within us where our “big and little selves” – the personality routines which make up the conscious self, and…
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अनन्त का छंद – 5 प्रसन्न कुमार चौधरी ख. भौतिक अस्तित्व 60. मनुष्य के अस्तित्व की एक सामान्य चर्चा के बाद हम अब उसके भौतिक और चेतन पक्ष की अलग से थोड़ी चर्चा करेंगे । पहले भौतिक पक्ष । अन्य प्राणियों की तरह मनुष्य अपने विस्तारित आत्म-पुनरुत्पादन के लिए प्राकृतिक परिवेश का उपयोग मात्र नहीं करता, बल्कि श्रम के औज़ारों के विकास के ज़रिये उत्पादन करता है और इस प्रक्रिया में प्रकृति के साथ तथा आपस…
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John Smith on Imperialism in the 21st Century John Smith’s book on imperialism is a groundbreaking work revealing the super-exploitation of the global south. Daphna Whitmore from Redline interviewed him about his book.
Adolph Gottlieb, Equinox, 1963
From the Phillips Collection:
Once he felt he had exhausted the myriad possibilities of his pictographs, Gottlieb began to simplify his symbols and composition in order to enhance his theme of universality. By the 1960s, he was creating paintings like Equinox, in which the grid is reduced to an implied (although occasionally delineated) horizontal division that separates the image into two halves. Within each half, a few shapes—circles, squares, or calligraphic gestures—float against a field of color, vying for focal supremacy. Gottlieb creates a tension between the two forms struggling against each other, but in their balance and containment within a field of color, he also achieves a harmonious resolution.
Duncan Phillips acquired his two examples of Gottlieb’s work soon after each was painted, evidence of his appreciation of his art. Although no specific reference to Gottlieb appears in Phillips’s surviving writings, he could have had Gottlieb in mind when he declared in 1955, “I admire the aesthetic interpretations of the age we live in—even the symbols for the anarchy, the turmoil and the inner tensions.”
Genesis of Capital in India
My book ‘Genesis of Capital in India’ in Kindle Edition. https://www.amazon.in/GENESIS-CAPITAL-INDIA-Prasanna-Choudhary-ebook/dp/B01MRTPPTA?_encoding=UTF8&keywords=genesis%20of%20capital%20in%20india&qid=1480937433&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1
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IMG_0333 by Pooja Pant on Flickr.
Working Women's Day Celebrations, Nepal.
Don’t aim at success — the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run—in the long run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
Viktor Frankl (via explore-blog)
Debt is a Product of Power Relations
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'Naitaavad enaa, paro anyad asti' (There is not merely this, but a transcendent other). Rgveda. X, 31.8.
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