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Comenius, Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976), A.S. 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Fable, or allegory, is a totally distinct and inferior kind of poetry. Vision, or imagination, is a representation of what actually exists, really and unchangeably. Fable, or allegory, is formed by the daughters of Memory. \u003cstrong\u003eImagination is surrounded by the daughters of inspiration, who, in the aggregate, are called Jerusalem.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Blake, A Vision of the Last Judgement, 1808 sketch:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\"whenever any Individual Rejects Error; Embraces Truth a Last Judgement passes upon that Individual.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/tumblr_bf816351d1934cf0e6fc7356d71d9fdf_078b9cd7_1280.jpg?v=1746026551\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWJT Mitchell on Blake:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I. What did Blake mean by \"A Vision of the Last Judgment\"?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps we should begin by asking what he meant by a Vision, distinguishing it from such things as hallucination, vivid visual memory, or Platonic \"form.\" What is the ontological status of a Vision? How can Blake claim that it reveals \"Permanent Realities\"  at the same time he admits that \"to different People it appears differently\"? Can we arrive at psychological definition that will correspond with Blake's literary definition (\"The Last Judgment is not Fable or Allegory but Vision Allegory \u0026amp; Vision ought to be known as Two Distinct Things\" E544)? Is it sufficient to explain this distinction by referring it to the distinction between imagination and memory? (\"Fable or Allegory is Formd by the daughters of Memory. Imagination is Surrounded by the daughters of Inspiration.\") \u003cstrong\u003eAre memory, allegory, and fable simple antitheses of inspiration, vision, and imagination, or are they constituents of these \"higher\" mental and literary processes?\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-17_at_11.49.22_AM.jpg?v=1746026566\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMitchell: \"Albert S. Roe, in his ground-breaking study of Blake's Last Judgment pictures, argues that \u003cstrong\u003e\"it is important to remember that Blake had no belief in any eternal damnation of the individual,\"\u003c\/strong\u003e and that it is only the casting out of mental \"error\" that he represented in his Last Judgment drawings.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMitchell: \"If all these unanswered questions do not prove sufficiently irritating, perhaps the following summary hypothesis will stir debate. The key to Blake's structural conception of the Last Judgment is his remark on the organization of the groups in the lost tempera: \"when distant they appear as One Man but as you approach they appear Multitudes of Nations\" (E546). The early versions of the Last Judgment are organized around a portion or organ of the human form--probably the skull--and the cyclic movement of the figures within that form represents the cycle of consciousness casting off error and embracing truth. \u003cstrong\u003eThe figures are, as Blake claimed, not \"Persons\" but mental \"States\" which exist inside persons.\u003c\/strong\u003e As Blake developed his notion of the \"Human Form Divine\" and the myth of a Universal Man (Albion) in his prophetic books, so also his concept of the Last Judgment as an event in the consciousness of this Universal Man began to develop, an event which can be seen at the individual, microcosmic level as \"a\" Last Judgment or epiphany, at the collective, macrocosmic level as \"the\" Last Judgment. The cyclical quality of his compositions, their mirror-like symmetry, the even-handed posture of the Messiah, the absence of the warrior angel Michael, all these features are Blake's way of saying that the divisive, judgmental aspects of the Last Judgment have been subordinated to a Vision of the Last Judgment as a \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003econtinuing process\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003ea recurrent event in the life of consciousness, a moment of welcoming and awakening into the total life of the imagination.\u003c\/strong\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003esee WJT Mitchell: https:\/\/bq.blakearchive.org\/pdfs\/issues\/9.2b.pdf\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-29_at_9.10.04_PM.jpg?v=1746026559\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCocteau:\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cstrong\u003eInspiration\u003c\/strong\u003e is not a thing that descends upon us from heaven. 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Of whom a large part of humanity is ashamed.\"\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-29_at_11.51.11_PM.jpg?v=1745985091\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\"I have had fabricated for me a character that is not me, a legendary personage who does not resemble me at all but who protects me in a way, since I should never want to shake this character's hand.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This inner character who inhabits me is a completely timeless character whom, I repeat, I know very, very little about.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I am only an intermediary. A medium. A laborer.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/tumblr_inline_ozsju5qfQk1qio4j1_1280.jpg?v=1745985426\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In short, the poet tries to put his night world out on the table; he serves sometimes awkwardly-this Self, and this Self is sometimes ill-tempered over being ill-served. Thus it is that the self which is trying to speak to you now out of my mouth may not be my Self at all.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-29_at_11.57.14_PM.jpg?v=1745985459\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I should not wish you to remember me, or rather this \"I\" who is speaking to you, but the I who dwells in the shadows, in my shadows, and that has been expressed with great lack of control, for I say to you again, control is very dangerous. 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Let it finish its work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-14_at_1.42.39_PM.jpg?v=1745983889\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDick Higgins (who popularized Intermedia in the 60s):\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/tumblr_429996c24b0c90fc62c00cae440f4201_640c8bab_2048.jpg?v=1745984010\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eColeridge (who coined \"Intermedia\" in 1812):\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn every work of art there is a reconcilement of the external with the internal\u003c\/strong\u003e; the conscious is so impressed on the unconscious as to appear in it; as compared mere letters inscribed on a tomb with figures themselves constituting the tomb. He who combines the two is the person of genius; and for that reason they must partake of both. 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Let's organize them. We pull Cocteau's ghost through time and transform his speech into a theater of images (which it is already). The task: turning a ruin into a construction site. Ft. new typesetting, commentaries + associative images that expand, critique, and detour from the path Cocteau points to. The book works to keep this fountain of thought interactive and accessible in ways that video cannot provide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-30_at_2.34.29_PM.jpg?v=1746038090\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCocteau's 'jack-of-all-arts' project (spider mode), made of many worlds, has given us fragments of ideas diffused throughout the disciplines, seen in pieces (theater, film, poetry, painting, sculpture, literature). As a convenience, this last testament recovers and stitches together Cocteau's core ideas in a 3800 word corkscrew monologue. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eanecdotes ✔️\u003cbr\u003eresearch ✔️\u003cbr\u003eguesswork ✔️\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-30_at_2.34.41_PM.jpg?v=1746038103\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrying into Cocteau’s consciousness in 1962, we find ourselves eerily in a similar place, sharing his struggles and hopes. Cocteau wrestles with the contradictions between\u003cstrong\u003e inner and outer worlds\u003c\/strong\u003e,\u003cstrong\u003e art and labor\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003ehumanity and technology\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eartists and institutions\u003c\/strong\u003e,\u003cstrong\u003e control and accidents, conscious and unconscious, life and death.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe link between Mount Parnassus \u0026amp; Montparnasse \u003cstrong\u003e✔️\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-30_at_12.27.19_PM.jpg?v=1746030452\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSimultaneously a battery and a vehicle, Cocteau's insights shock us by helping us realize how late we are to our fundamental problems. Cocteau's ghost navigates us around dangers and towards hopes for new direction toward another world different from this one. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(111, 177, 127);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I hope that you have not become full-fledged robots but, on the contrary, have been humanized. This is my hope.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(85, 170, 218);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"From our birth to our death we are a procession of others\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDefend today - making use of yesterday, anticipating to-morrow \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e ✔️\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull Video:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z-x-wNiN4Hk?si=4sq0idLo9Z6zOj9k\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShips with 4 Color 24\"x36\" Poster\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-24_at_9.46.32_PM.jpg?v=1746030560\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eincl \"Vehicle for Poetry\" ghost whip Papercraft\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-30_at_12.33.52_PM.jpg?v=1746030845\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-30_at_12.29.04_PM.jpg?v=1746030573\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eNow-Time\u003c\/strong\u003e element:\u003cbr\u003eCocteau's discontinuous continuation of classical Mount Parnassus to 20c Montparnasse Paris. An artistic rupture more than a political one. Therefore Cocteau is limited, but a starting place. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(68, 207, 95);\"\u003eTopics: transmissions, antipodes, the wrong track, buzzing around, anti-gravity, hitchhiking, the two stools, humanization, robots, venusians, esperanto, the two selves, others, intermediaries, night world, poetry, genius, collective genius, mythology, history, manual labor, expiration, discoveries, tin medals, errors, surprise, beginnings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Jean_Cocteau_Autobiography_of_an_Unknown_83_mini_poster_Chirashi.jpg?v=1746030186\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrpheus, a \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003ereworking\u003c\/span\u003e of a classical subject...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/ORPHEE_JEAN_COCTEAU_German_Movie_Poster_Hans_Hillman_Orpheus_-_Pi.jpg?v=1746030186\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-30_at_11.01.28_AM.jpg?v=1746030186\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-29_at_8.19.53_PM.jpg?v=1745985733\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e++ Formed in Grangemouth, Scotland in 1979, Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie, and Will Heggie called themselves \u003cstrong\u003eCocteau Twins\u003c\/strong\u003e. The name derived from the song “Cocteau Twins” by fellow Scottish band Simple Minds. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe song is reported to have been about two men in Glasgow, Scotland, who had a reputation for being pretentious film snobs with a fondness for the work of Jean Cocteau.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Now-Time","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56019151225000,"sku":"fpb1789814824842","price":6.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/9084\/5096\/files\/cocteau-speaks-to-the-year-2000_1.jpg?v=1789814832"},{"product_id":"gisele-freund-portraits","title":"Gisèle Freund Portraits","description":"\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(195, 195, 195);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease allow 10 working days to process before shipping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e6.5 oz - Mineral Washed Green Short Sleeve\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eMade in USA - 100% USA Cotton\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/sizechart.png?v=1746031678\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"88\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #4bc55b;\"\u003eCorresponding Klew: K-10\u003c\/span\u003e \"The Eye of the Camera\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e↓ Gisèle Freund : Our first thought in front of a good painted portrait is to ask the painter's name. But in photography it is the model that counts, and the role of a good photographer is to be the sensitive instrument by means of which a personality is revealed. \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-25_at_9.38.01_AM.jpg?v=1758816875\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e↓ Principle of the camera obscura, 1671\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/x259__Athanasius_Kircher_Camera_Obscura_from_Ars_Magnus_Lucis_et_Umbrae_1671__S121-gp.jpg?v=1758816904\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFreund: I had wanted to be a sociologist because the extreme diversity of social problems fascinated me. I became a photographer out of necessity, but I have never regretted it, for I soon understood that my most vital concerns were directed toward the individual, with his sorrows and hopes and anguishes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-25_at_11.24.25_AM.jpg?v=1758817483\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFreund: By thus discreetly studying the faces that chance had set before me, I began to grasp the importance of detail, the symbolic essence of the individual: an imperceptible quiver at the corner of a contorted mouth, a wrinkle on the forehead, a furtive wink, a heavy eyelid. Sometimes just the expression in a man's eyes tells us more than his whole body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-25_at_11.24.10_AM.jpg?v=1758817482\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e↓ The back of the photo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-25_at_11.13.06_AM.jpg?v=1758816796\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePortrait Selects:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Bertolt Brecht, Colette, Ivan Illich, Jean-Paul Sartre, Virginia Woolf, Tristan Tzara, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Marguerite Yourcenar, Henri Michaux, Victoria Ocampo, Florence Henri, André Breton, Marguerite Duras, André Malraux, Henry Miller, Henri Matisse, James Joyce, Simone de Beauvoir, Paul Valéry, Richard Wright, Paul Celan, Jean Cocteau, Walter Benjamin, Diego Rivera, George Bernard Shaw, Pablo Neruda, Samuel Beckett, Marie Bonaparte, Aldous Huxley, Susana Soca, Alberto Giacometti, Roger Callois, Man Ray, W. H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Beach, Pierre Reverdy, Adrienne Monnier, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Frida Kahlo, Alfonso Reyes, José Ortega y Gasset, and H. G. Wells \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-05_at_5.15.26_PM.jpg?v=1758817072\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFreund: The irony of our image civilization is that it consists in concealing reality from us by superimposing itself on reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e↓ \"Au Pays Des Visages\" (In the Land of Faces)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-04_at_4.13.39_PM.jpg?v=1758816947\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFreund: When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePortrait Index ↓\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-05_at_4.43.06_PM.jpg?v=1758817115\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-05_at_4.43.12_PM.jpg?v=1758817115\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-05_at_4.43.17_PM.jpg?v=1758817116\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-05_at_4.43.21_PM.jpg?v=1758817115\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e↓ Frankfurt School ID\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/88adfb62ffd593c1182a8e576091748e2f6883ed-2014x1344.png?v=1758816930\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFreund: The importance of photography does not rest primarily in its potential as an art form, but rather in its ability to shape our ideas, to influence our behavior, and to define our society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Now-Time","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":56019151257768,"sku":"bjo1789814827534","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":56019151290536,"sku":"vlw1789814827535","price":24.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":56019151323304,"sku":"ttv1789814827536","price":25.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":56019151356072,"sku":"toi1789814827537","price":30.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XXL","offer_id":56019151388840,"sku":"llo1789814827538","price":25.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/9084\/5096\/files\/gisele-freund-portraits_1.gif?v=1789814834"},{"product_id":"duck-rabbit-wittgenstein","title":"Duck-Rabbit \/ Wittgenstein","description":"\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(195, 195, 195);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease allow 10 working days to process before shipping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGarment Dyed - 6.5oz Cement Long Sleeve\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eMade in USA - 100% USA Cotton\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/sizechart.png?v=1746031678\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"88\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(91, 200, 139);\"\u003eCorresponding Klew: K-12 “Wittgenstein as Designer”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eWittgenstein: To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eUrsula K. Le Guin: The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAspect seeing is the ability to \u003cstrong\u003esee one thing in multiple ways\u003c\/strong\u003e. An example by Wittgenstein in Philosophical Investigations is that we can see the \"duckrabbit\" either as a duck or as a rabbit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/a.storyblok.webp?v=1758818620\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eAspect-seeing \"lies in the connection between the concepts of seeing an aspect and of experiencing the meaning of word.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eWittgenstein: \"I contemplate a face, and then suddenly notice its likeness to another. see that it has not changed; and yet see it differently\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-01_at_3.13.10_PM.jpg?v=1758818403\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eWittgenstein: Visual space has essentially no owner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eWittgenstein: Thus, we evolve language socially in order to meet the demands of our environment. It is our shared negotiation of reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-01_at_4.11.08_PM.jpg?v=1758818389\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e↓ Paolozzi's Print Portfolio inspired by W \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-08-10_at_12.43.52_PM.jpg?v=1758818460\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eDon't Think – Look!\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOtl Aicher:\u003cbr\u003ewittgenstein says that language disguises thought. the structure of thought is shown in logical-analytical operation. a logical operation of this kind is a kind of mathematical calculation of an algebraic nature. for this wittgenstein proposed an algebraic notation of his own with signs for logical steps. he thought he had created a complete system for finding truth, by means of which meaningless sentences can be separated from true ones, a kind of logical cosmology. he thought that this had solved the problems of philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003elater wittgenstein reversed his view. he then discovered that our concepts are not unambiguous, but have many dimensions. \"what we teach is the different nature of concepts.' it is not a language with exact concepts that is precise, but a language that can adapt to states of affairs. in language games language moves towards its objects and as it were opens up new dimensions of the concept. we do not come closer to things through logic as a system of exact statements, but through study, the description of language in use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ethere is no longer a truth function. functionalism as a system of exact elemental statements, as a system of exact scientific operations, is superseded. a new criterion of truth appears: \u003cstrong\u003euse.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003elistening and looking become an act of philosophy, and not a thinking operation within a complete system any more. wittgenstein is now saying to his pupils: 'don't think, look!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ewittgenstein saw this transformation as painful. he now had to turn away from the attempt to establish a logical ideal language and agree that everyday language reveals the meaning of language, everyday use. it is in use that we see what language can capture and how it captures it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ethis is a fundamental reversal, and wittgenstein was plagued by doubts about the world and about himself because of the collapse of a system-orientated view of the world. he thinks it is possible: 'that mankind is running into a trap, that it is the end of mankind if it looks for a final systematic truth.\" there is nothing good or desirable about scientific cognition, he said. he was taking the error of the age upon himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTractatus ↓\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-02_at_3.01.36_PM.jpg?v=1758818274\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-02_at_3.02.05_PM.jpg?v=1758818287\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-04_at_1.43.04_PM.jpg?v=1758818319\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWittgenstein remarks in the Notebooks that \"I am placed in\" world the \"like my eye its visual field.\" Everybody's eye is never inside, but outside, one's visual field. By parallel \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e the metaphysical subject is outside the world of sayables.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eErnst Mach, Self Portrait, 1886 ↓\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/dieanalysederemp00mach_0035.jpg?v=1758818433\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eChallenged by a colleague to ‘depict the contemplation of self as “I”’, Ernst Mach responds with an image: he draws what he sees of himself when he squints with one eye. Viewing this image through the lens of certain writings and conversations of Wittgenstein from the years 1929–31, I would like to ask: what is this picture saying? And, if anything at all is being said: how is it said? The ensuing discussion of the field of vision and visual space touches – among other things – on a critique of idealism and realism, the difference between complete and incomplete images, depiction in a proposition, and the hand as an element. In this way, the question will lead us to consider possible aspects of the expressive power of Mach’s image. READ\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-02_at_2.55.47_PM.jpg?v=1758819346\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eValue cannot be in the world, since it resides in the human subject; and the human subject is not an object within reality, but the limit or horizon which brings that reality into focus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e↓ Dieter Rot, Why Wittgentstein has to be an Ascetic and why Rot cannot be a Philosopher \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-01_at_7.05.25_PM.jpg?v=1758819657\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eWittgenstein: The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\"When names proliferate it's time to stop\" warns the Tao. (Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin) \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-02_at_4.47.20_PM.jpg?v=1758818180\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eWittgenstein: Man exists in language like a fly trapped in a bottle: that which it cannot precisely that through which it sees the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What is your aim in Philosophy?” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e↓ “To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle” ↓ Ed Ruscha style\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-02_at_4.47.23_PM.jpg?v=1758818181\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eWittgenstein: \"The limits of my language are the limits of my world\" \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e↓\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e↓\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/sddefault.jpg?v=1758818770\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Now-Time","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":56019151454376,"sku":"wnl1789814835076","price":29.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":56019151487144,"sku":"zwc1789814835077","price":31.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":56019151519912,"sku":"llo1789814835078","price":28.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":56019151552680,"sku":"nmq1789814835079","price":34.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XXL","offer_id":56019151585448,"sku":"xqx1789814835080","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/9084\/5096\/files\/duck-rabbit-wittgenstein_1.gif?v=1789814842"},{"product_id":"faust-metamorphosis-of-plants","title":"Faust \/ Metamorphosis of Plants","description":"\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(195, 195, 195);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease allow 10 working days to process before shipping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e10oz Dark Gray Crewneck\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e50% Cotton 50% Polyester - Made in USA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 86, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cimg height=\"85\" width=\"372\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/CrewneckSizeChart.png?v=1764718057\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMephisto visits Faust in his Study:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_11.30.26_AM.jpg?v=1764869451\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-11-15_at_4.01.59_PM.jpg?v=1764869292\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-11-15_at_4.05.07_PM.jpg?v=1764869303\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-11-15_at_3.40.27_PM.jpg?v=1764869319\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat does the name “Faust” refer to in the context of the band name?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJean-Hervé Peron: It is German for “fist” which is a symbol for revolution which is what we thought we were part of and maybe we were too. Also it is the name of a work by Goethe where a man sells his soul to obtain what he longs for. This was what we were doing; selling our souls to the music industry in order to do the music we wanted to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFaust IV:\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_11.23.20_AM.jpg?v=1764869049\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Faust Tapes:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_11.23.45_AM.jpg?v=1764869049\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis hybrid of English and German material reflected Faust's transitional period: they were moving away from the isolated, commune-based Wumme environment toward a more conventional studio setting, yet retained their experimental ethos. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to producer Uwe Nettelbeck, the band \u003cstrong\u003e\"spent weeks chasing sounds that could not be repeated twice,\"\u003c\/strong\u003e leading to difficulties in finalising mixes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFaust Part 1: “When I say to the Moment flying; \u003cstrong\u003e'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' \u003c\/strong\u003eThen bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!”\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBridget Riley, Fall, 1963:\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_11.16.13_AM.jpg?v=1764868625\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-10-25_at_4.05.46_PM.jpg?v=1764868931\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDaemonic marketing trick: The album cost: 49 pence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/img_7393.jpg?v=1764870858\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChe reading Goethe:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/s-l400.jpg?v=1764868530\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMetamorphosis of Plants:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat reconciled poetry and politics in his eyes was not aesthetics, but the study of nature.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Hypothesis: \u003cstrong\u003eEverything is leaf\u003c\/strong\u003e, and through this simplicity,\u003cstrong\u003e the greatest diversity becomes possible\u003c\/strong\u003e.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/447717429_3c8e7a3ef9_z.jpg?v=1764870269\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Goethe's quote \u003cstrong\u003e\"All is leaf\"\u003c\/strong\u003e is perhaps the most famous line from his botanical writings. What exactly did he mean by this?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo argue his case that all is leaf, Goethe assumed that other botanists and plant enthusiasts had observed some degree of similarity in plant parts. \"Anyone who devotes the least attention to the growth of plants can easily note that certain of their external parts are often transformed, assuming, either completely or to some lesser degree, the form of neighboring parts. From this point of consensus, Goethe began to make his case, piece by piece, that all parts of the plant are merely variations on one part. He made the case that the seed, when dissected, appears to be damp and tightly compact leaves. The first sprout out of the ground emerges with two cotyledons. These tiny oval-shaped pieces are not similar to the plants mature leaves, (but tend to look the same from plant to plant, as will later be important for the development of Goethe's theory.) Goethe made the case that the cotyledons are form of leaf.\u003cbr\u003eGoethe argued that the petals of flowering plants are leaves of another color. Proceeding to the next plant part, Goethe desired to convince his readers that they should also view the stamen as a variation of the petal (which, of course, is a variation of the leaf).\" – Goethe's Plant Morphology: The Seeds of Evolution, TANYA KELLEY, 2007\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Skizze-zum-Typus-einer-hoheren-Pflanze-und-Typus-des-Insektes.jpg?v=1764870290\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"She [nature] is the sole artist, creating extreme contrast out of the simplest material, the greatest perfection seemingly without effort, the most definite clarity always veiled with touch of softness. Each of her works has its own being, each of her phenomena its separate idea, and yet all create a single whole.\"  Goethe, The Metamorphosis of Plants\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-11-15_at_5.49.35_PM.jpg?v=1764870226\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eTheir existence is characterized by the positive and the negative, by development, progress and evolution, negated in reflux, regressions and revolution. Fruit is the revolution of the plant, for it makes itself an autonomous being. Fruit is the plant backwards, for it grows from the blossom not the root. The leaf is its beginning, the root its end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-11-15_at_4.54.14_PM.jpg?v=1764870307\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Everything that has been round about us from youth, with which we are nevertheless only superficially acquainted, always seems ordinary and trivial to us, so familiar, so commonplace that we hardly give it a second thought.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-11-15_at_4.17.36_PM.jpg?v=1764870322\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRegular Metamorphosis: This involves a step-by-step progression from seed to fruit, showcasing nature's hierarchical development leading to reproduction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIrregular Metamorphosis: Represents backward steps in development, resulting in forms that, while visually pleasing, lack the inherent force of growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Durchgewachsene_Nelke.jpg?v=1764870352\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Nature precludes the possibility of growth in endless stages, for it wants to hasten toward its goal by forming seeds.\" Goethe, The Metamorphosis of Plants\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_11.33.54_AM.jpg?v=1764869650\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAndré Masson, Goethe or the Metamorphosis of Plants, 1940\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Gh9ElSkXMAAbjNg.jpg?v=1764870380\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEsther Leslie: \u003cstrong\u003eGoethe is seeing time: the beginning of everything, of every form. He seeing space: see everything in its entirety', the whole of life unlocked by a single law. \u003c\/strong\u003eHis desire to order plants in time and space was perhaps prompted by book that he picked up in Padua. It was Andrea Palladio's The Four Books of Architecture and it develops a grammar of architectural parts, walls, ceilings, stairs, columns, doors. windows, frames, roofs, details. Perhaps the systematic orderings of this treatise worked on him. In any event, as he continues on his Italian journey, including a visit to the botanical gardens of Palermo in Sicily, he formulates a notion of the primal, archetypal plant and its history. An idea came to Goethe, in a flash. In the organ of the plant which we call the leaf' lies the true Proteus who can hide or reveal himself in all vegetal forms. If we could understand what drives a leaf to take shape, if we can understand what form is and how form forms and reforms itself, we could, perhaps, create any form, any shape, any life. His thoughts that were to be conveyed to Herder noted that he had come to realise that the organ of the plant we ordinarily call the leaf conceals the true Proteus, who can conceal and reveal himself. Backward and forward, he argues, the plant is only leaf, and it is linked so inseparably to the future seed that one should not think of one without the other. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/GIdf808XAAEHisc.png?v=1764870368\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An eternal living activity works to create anew what has been created, lest it entrench itself in rigidity.\" from Goethe's poem \"One in All\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFaust in A.D. 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He specifically discusses how authors go to libraries to research previously written works-sometimes centuries old and, partially or completely re-use the concepts discussed in these older works. 1819\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-13_at_5.41.32_PM.jpg?v=1758814537\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe text is a forest in which the reader is hunter. Rustling in the underbrush-the idea, skittish prey, the citation another piece \"in the bag.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Joyce swag ↓ His habit with proofs was not to correct misprints but to add loads of new material. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-08-30_at_7.18.03_PM.jpg?v=1758814537\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBook-Eye Scanner ↓ \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-02_at_5.30.13_PM.jpg?v=1758814537\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAmicitia etiam post mortem durans. ↓ \u003cbr\u003e(Friendship lasting even beyond death), emblem 159 in the book Emblemata by Andrea Alciato, 1608. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-13_at_3.05.17_PM.jpg?v=1758814537\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA vine shady with green foliage embraced an elm tree that was dried up with age and bare of leaves. The vine recognises the changes wrought by nature and, ever grateful, renders to the one that reared it the duty it owes in return. By the example it offers, the vine tells us to seek friends of such a sort that not even our final day will uncouple them from the bond of friendship.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard them as two different facets, or two successive stages, of the same reality, a reality convincingly human just because it is complex.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZettlekasten \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e↓ , From well-known handbook on excerpting methods (\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eVincent Placcius, De arte excerpendi, 1689). \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Houghton_GC6.P6904.689d_-_Placcius__154.jpg?v=1758814537\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe process of reading a text can be made concrete, and the text itself may no longer be isolated, pristine and inviolate but manifold and pluralistic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Houghton_GC6.P6904.689d_-_Placcius__67.jpg?v=1758814537\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/f9e748fa-d63a-4e40-a777-ae4c7a1b16cd.png?v=1758814538\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/img_5742.png?v=1758814538\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Now-Time","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":56019151782056,"sku":"gqu1789814838856","price":26.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":56019151814824,"sku":"irs1789814838857","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":56019151847592,"sku":"cnk1789814838858","price":27.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":56019151880360,"sku":"sxw1789814838859","price":25.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XXL","offer_id":56019151913128,"sku":"bqd1789814838860","price":27.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/9084\/5096\/files\/the-art-of-book-making_1.gif?v=1789814846"},{"product_id":"cento-4th-century-montage","title":"Cento \/ 4th Century Montage","description":"\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(195, 195, 195);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease allow 10 working days to process before shipping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e10oz Black Hoodie\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eMade in USA - 50% Cotton 50% Polyester\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 86, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/hoodiespecs.gif?v=1758823375\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"92\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #4bc55b;\"\u003eCorresponding Klew: K-14\u003c\/span\u003e \"Techno and the Cut-up\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA cento is a literary or musical work, consisting of elements taken from one or more other works and rearranged to form a different text. In music, these are originally characteristic modal formulas that can be reused in other pieces. The term is of Latin origin ( cento ) and originally designated a cloth cloak made of several pieces.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFaltonia Betizia Proba (310 – 360) depicted in the De mulieribus claris (1362) by Giovanni Boccaccio\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/787cc34ad14643cd57fd3f66dcd4b6dc-930x1063.jpg?v=1758760532\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn late antiquity it was widely cultivated in both Latin and Greek (reworking the verses of Homer) with the intention of giving a classical form to the Christian message.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to the prescriptions of ancient poetics, the following may serve as \"building material\" for a centon: a) a hemistich, b) a verse, c) a sesquistancia. Decimus Magnus Ausonius (4th century AD), who formulated this rule, believed that since the composition of a centon is a game ( Latin:  ludus ), a competition ( aemulatio, contentio ), then the use of fragments exceeding the size of a sesquistancia makes the author's task too easy to complete, and the composition of a centon loses its meaning: \"to take two verses in a row will be awkward, three - an unacceptable blunder ( merae nugae )\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/De_mulieribus_claris__BnF_Francais_599__f83r_-_Proba.jpg?v=1758762266\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe composition of centons is a form of literary play . Being a literary joke, a centon is all the more comical the better the reader's familiarity with the poems from which the lines are taken. The lines of a centon are supposed to be selected so that they are united by a common meaning and have the appearance of a finished work .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artistic effect of a centon consists of the similarity or contrast between the new context and the recollection of the previous context of each fragment. Less strict centons transition into a poetry of reminiscences , sometimes overt, more often hidden.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFaltonia Betitia Proba wrote a Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi, in which she details the life of Jesus and deeds of the Old and New Testaments; it was written entirely in centos taken from Virgil. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-24_at_8.03.47_PM.jpg?v=1758762280\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the Renaissance, Proba and her work were praised as examples of studiousness and scholarship. In a 1385 letter to Anna von Schweidnitz (the wife of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV), the Italian poet and scholar Petrarch referenced Proba and her work while discussing female geniuses, and in 1374 the humanist Giovanni Boccaccio included Proba in his biographical collection of historical and mythological women entitled De mulieribus claris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1474, the poem was published by the Swiss printer Michael Wenssler,\u003cstrong\u003e which likely made Proba the first female author to have had her work reproduced by a printing press.\u003c\/strong\u003e In 1518, Proba's work was once again being used in an educational setting, this time by John Colet of St Paul's School, who believed that Proba \"wrote ... wysdom with clene and chast Latin\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ehttps:\/\/ru.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D0%A6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD\u003cbr\u003ehttps:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Centon\u003cbr\u003ehttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cento_(poetry)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-24_at_8.02.51_PM.jpg?v=1758762189\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMelitzah is a medieval Hebrew literary device in which a mosaic of fragments and phrases from the Hebrew Bible as well as from rabbinic literature or the liturgy is fitted together to form a new statement of what the author intends to express at the moment. It is similar to cento.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Hebrew the word melitzah means satire, mocking, taunting, enigma or witticism. In Freud's Moses (1991), Yosef Yerushalami wrote: \"Melitzah, in effect, recalls Walter Benjamin's desire to someday write a work composed entirely of quotations. At any rate, it was a literary device employed widely in medieval Hebrew poetry and prose, then through the movement known as Haskalah, Hebrew for “enlightenment,” and even among nineteenth-century writers both modern and traditional\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYerushalami argues: \"In melitzah the sentences compounded out of quotations mean what they say; but below and beyond the surface they reverberate with associations to the original texts, and this is what makes them psychologically so interesting and valuable. In the transposition of a quotation from the original (in this case canonical) text to a new one, the meaning of the original context may be retained, altered, or subverted. In any case the original context trails along as an invisible interlinear presence, and the readers, like the writer, must be aware of these associations if they are to savor the new text to the full. A partial analogy may be found in T. S. 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The witches in Shakespeare and Goya are more real than the idealized peasants and artisans in many a genre painting. The humdrum round of daily life heightened to fantastic pitch in Gogol or Kafka reveals more about reality than many a naturalistic description. \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eDon Quixote and Sancho Panz\u003c\/span\u003ea are more real, this day, than hundreds of neat, prosaic characters in novels 'drawn from life'. If we choose to define realism not as a method but as an attitude - as the depiction of reality in art we shall find that almost all art (with the exception of abstract art, tachism, etc.) is realist art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe work of Francisco Goya, the only Spanish artist whose oeuvre truly spanned both the Enlightenment and Romanticism, has challenged all the attempts of critics and art historians to pigeonhole it as belonging completely to either epoch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoya's Don Q:\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Goya_-_Don_Quixote_beset_by_monsters__1862_0712.188.jpg?v=1764862610\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe manner of Goya's drawing echoes the transgression of the boundary between the real and the imagined presented pictorially by the fantastic creatures of Don Quixote's imagination. These strange figures defiantly penetrate the frontier between \"fiction\" and \"reality\" as they swirl about the reading gentleman, threatening and seducing him. The person of Alonso Quijano\/Don Quixote himself begins to undergo a metamorphosis, as he becomes a liminal character partaking in both realms. In his excitement he falls to one knee, points to a passage of his open book, and looks directly at the viewer. His body is substantial, but his hair defies the laws of gravity as it stands straight on end, \"as if an electric current shot out of his sick cranium.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe identity of the phantasmagorical creatures is much more richly multivalent when set within both the iconographic tradition of Don Quixote and Goya's own iconography of satyrs, witches, and flying creatures escaped from nightmares. – Critical Images The Canonization of Don Quixote – Rachel Lynn Schmidt, 1990\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Quixote charging the windmills In A.D. Reader Pt. I:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_10.06.19_AM.jpg?v=1764864395\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_10.06.10_AM.jpg?v=1764864396\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/1.jpg?v=1764862610\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-11-09_at_9.21.53_AM.png?v=1764864590\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaul Klee: The tragicomic hero with the wing, a modern-antique Don Quixote. Unlike the divine creatures born with only one angel's wing, this man is forever trying to fly. He keeps breaking his arms and legs, but that does not prevent him from clinging to his idea of flight. I wished to capture the contrast between his monumental solemn attitude and his already ruinous state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/El_ingenioso_hidalgo_don_Quijote_de_la_Mancha__Impresso_con_licencia__en_Valencia__en_casa_de_Pedro_Patricio_Mey__1605__2.jpg?v=1764862610\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_10.20.54_AM.jpg?v=1764865292\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_9.36.37_AM.jpg?v=1764862610\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWe thus quite happily return to the principle of justice, to the old warhorse on which the reformers of the earth have rocked for ages, for lack of surer means of historic transportation. We return to that lamentable Rosinate on which the Don Quixotes of history have galloped toward the great reform of the earth, always to come home with their eyes blackened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGustav Doré's Quxiote:\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-06-06_at_2.18.32_PM.jpg?v=1764862610\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAsimov: In the centuries before Milton, the works of fiction that were most popular were the romances of chivalry --fantastic tales of knights and monsters. These were satirized by Miguel de Cervantes in his great book Don Quixote de la Mancha, which was published in 1605, sixty years before Paradise Lost. Don Quixote did something that satires but too rarely do: it killed the thing it satirized.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDaumier's Quixote:\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Don_Quichotte_Honore_Daumier.jpg?v=1764862611\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdorno: Don Quixote may have served a particular and irrelevant program, that of abolishing the chivalric romance, which had been dragged along from feudal times into the bourgeois age. This modest program served as the vehicle by which the novel became an exemplary artwork . The antagonism of literary genres in which Cervantes's work originated was transformed, in his hands, into an antagonism of historical eras of, ultimately, metaphysical dimension: the authentic expression of the crisis of immanent meaning in the demystified world. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMax Slevogt's Quixote:\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/113003354-5.jpg?v=1764864734\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 'Sir, sorrow was not ordained for but beasts men, yet if men do\u003cbr\u003eexceed in it they become beasts' says Sancho Panza to Don Quixote.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFriedrich Schlegel, like most of the German Romantics, read Don Quixote in such a way that laughter and tears coexist in an ironic tension. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDelacroix's Quixote:\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Eugene_Delacroix_-_Don_Quichotte_dans_sa_bibliotheque.jpg?v=1764862610\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShklovsky: The fact is that Sancho serves a stringing device-he strings together all the folk wisdoms, while Don Quixote strings together all the bookish and high-society wisdoms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBloch: [on dialectical method]...it frees the consciousness of dialectical mediation in totality from the petrified state in which the narrow-minded understanding holds on to its contradictions. For this understanding there are clear isolated alternatives: either sensual pleasure or peace of mind, either the soap box or the ivory tower, either creeping empiricism which only rarely smells the soles of reality or unworldly idealism a la \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/span\u003e, as if, as Chesterton once mocked, the human brain must always be divided in conflict: one side repeating invariable calculations while the other dreams impossible dreams. Opportunism, which sees itself as realpolitik, in fact maintains itself outside existing reality just as much as utopian radicalism. The one stands under this reality, the other reaches above it, both are thus untrue, both are isolated and exaggerated formations. The dialectic of the totum resolves all these abstract dualisms, it opens up a comprehensive viewpoint from which fixed duality disappears. 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He was a famous English dandy - answered a young man who congratulated him one day on having looked so elegant at the Derby: \"I could not have been elegant if you remarked!\", he answered. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the sake of young people, I hope that \u003cstrong\u003etin medals\u003c\/strong\u003e have disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI am a member of the French Academy, the Belgian Academy, the German Academy, the American Academy, the Uruguayan Academy, and, although I speak almost no English, I am doctor honoris causa of Oxford.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-30_at_9.59.38_AM.jpg?v=1746021603\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCocteau:\u003cbr\u003eRewards indeed! \u003cstrong\u003eOne who accepts these things had better duck, for they are forms of transcendental punishment.\u003c\/strong\u003e And if he is offered them, it is because he has let himself be seen. 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A prerequisite for cooperative relations. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-01-28_at_6.44.43_PM.png?v=1769647506\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMaintain tension b\/w the ideal and real\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-19_at_3.24.10_PM.jpg?v=1766179593\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBook as pacenotes: \"A sketch that your life depends on\" \u0026amp; political and philosophical tools for the anti-totalitarian struggle. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-01-28_at_6.20.28_PM.png?v=1769646149\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRadial organization rooted in life:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-11-21_at_4.20.51_PM.jpg?v=1769646447\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMagmatic potential to end what is and bring in the new: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-11-21_at_2.44.57_PM.jpg?v=1769646356\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoethes's \u003cem\u003eOne and All\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-01-28_at_1.52.33_PM.jpg?v=1769645153\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ewhy Goethe.... \"Hegel was “introduced to Goethe’s ‘Metamorphosis of Plants’, [he] came to one of his defining insights; namely, first, that the history of philosophy could be understood as a developing set of shapes of the same thing instead of just a procession of competing philosophical systems, and, second, that this insight could be extended to all of human history itself.\"  * Goethe–\u0026gt;Hegel-\u0026gt;Marx\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e–\u0026gt;G\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustration \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eby Ernst Barlach for a Goethe edition \u003cbr\u003e(Recto, Verso and the double page spread as AD):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Lesender_Juengling_Barlach__441x400_b0e78963-5fc8-4f6a-9a59-d81306f32bcb.jpg?v=1769708554\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarlach: \"Every art belongs to two: one who makes it and one who needs it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/tumblr_7d330cf03cdd4373727fe6fdbebe24e8_d8457644_1280.png?v=1769645136\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Now-Time","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":56019152863400,"sku":"fkn1789814859877","price":27.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":56019152896168,"sku":"xmy1789814859878","price":25.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":56019152928936,"sku":"wmd1789814859879","price":31.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":56019152961704,"sku":"srn1789814859880","price":31.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XXL","offer_id":56019152994472,"sku":"tcp1789814859881","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/9084\/5096\/files\/ad-tee_1.gif?v=1789814866"},{"product_id":"champ-fleury","title":"Champ Fleury","description":"\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b9b6b6;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease allow 10 working days to process before shipping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKnit Beanie -\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e100% Acrylic\u003cbr\u003eMade in the USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eGeoffroy Tory (born c. 1480, Bourges, Fr.—died c. 1533, Paris) was a publisher, printer, author, orthographic reformer, and prolific engraver who was mainly responsible for the French Renaissance style of book decoration and who played a leading part in popularizing in France the roman letter as against the prevailing Gothic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike Durer, whom he criticizes, he shows how to draw letters with geometrical aids, and how their proportions relate to the human body. Although the book was not aimed at the printing trade, the work is mentioned by many subsequent writers on lettering and printing and has had a great influence on typography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 28\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eTory saw letters as symbols of cosmological principles.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChamp Fleury(Flowery Fields): \"We see in the springtime that the beauty of a field and of a garden consists in the diversity \u0026amp; assembled multitude of divers beautiful plants and flowers, which with their odour give forth a deliciousness worthy to be called divine and to live forever.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-11-03_at_11.09.46_AM.png?v=1764870978\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMassin, Letter and Image\u003c\/strong\u003e: The artists of the Renaissance were, as is well known, painters, engravers, geometricians, architects, writers, theorists at one and the same time. They tried to master all that was known at that time (Rabelais doctor, writer, philosopher is a case in point). It is therefore not surprising to find mathematics so closely bound up with their art, and especially with their graphic and typographic expression. In fact all artists of the time, Durer in Germany, Leonardo da Vinci, Pacioli and Vincentino in Italy, Tory and Le Bé in France, were steeped in the Pythagorean tradition and made the proportions of letters conform to architecture and geometry. Most of them wrote treatises in which they expressed their theories and their ideas, which differ very little from one author or country to another: besides having a common source of inspiration, they had at that time no scruples about copying a neighbour, and it is difficult, for instance, to see what distinguishes the theories of Brother Luca Pacioli, author of the Divina Proportione, from those of Leonardo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_12.01.15_PM.jpg?v=1764871407\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the contrary, in his Champ Fleury (1529) Geoffroy Tory pays homage to Vitruvius, 'prince of writers on architecture and buildings', who tried to determine, before he died, the proportions of the human form by means of geometry. But what makes the Champ Fleury an outstanding book and confers originality on its author is Tory's discovery that all the letters of the Latin alphabet can be reduced to the proportions of the human face and body. 'I know no author, whether Greek, Latin or French, who gives the proportion of letters as I have done, for which reason I call it my invention, since I conceived and learnt of it rather by divine inspiration than from any writing or hearsay.' Moreover, letters are for Tory 'so naturally well proportioned that like the human body they are composed of members, that is to say of measurements, of points and lines consisting of equal and unequal divisions . .It is true, as Gustave Cohen, who reprinted the work four hundred years after its original publication, wrote, that Tory inherited from Direr and in particular from Leonardo 'this tendency to see and seek everywhere, in their humblest forms, the sign of man, the hand of God and the marvellous unity of the universe'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-11-03_at_11.19.26_AM.png?v=1764871007\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTory: I have drawn the golden bough according to Virgil in the verses hereinbefore quoted, which, as have said, signifies learning; \u0026amp; beneath it the limb without leaves, which denotes ignorance. But note well how, on the said golden bough, I have drawn three twigs, of which the one in the middle, which is the chief \u0026amp; longest one, has nine leaves, wherein are written, one apart from another, the nine mutes, B, C, D, F, G, K, P, Q,T, which represent the nine Muses. Then, on another twig, at the left side, there are seven leaves wherein in like manner are written the seven semi-vowels, L, M, N, R, S, X, and Z, which represent the seven Liberal Arts. Likewise the third, right-hand twig has on it seven leaves, wherein are written the five Latin vowels, A, E, I, O, V, and one Greek one, Y, and with them the aspirate H, which, because it is not deemed a true letter, 1s written in the lowest leaf. By which six vowels and aspirate, we understand the four Cardinal Virtues \u0026amp; the Graces, of comely grace and virtue. Thus, then, in the said Golden Bough of Virgil are comprised and covertly suggested the nine Muses, the seven Liberal Arts, the four Cardinal Virtues, and the three Graces, which make the full number of the three-and-twenty letters of the Alphabet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_12.06.59_PM.jpg?v=1764871652\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMassin: Yet Tory goes one step further: he enclosed in the letter O, with its perfect circle, the seven liberal arts, and gave to I, another basic letter, the task of representing the nine muses. Finally, encouraged no doubt by the daringness of his invention and quite undeterred by any acrobatic figure, he combined these seven liberal arts and the nine muses in the design of a flageolet (a kind of flute with seven holes) which, seen from behind and in perspective, resembles both a standing O and a recumbent I. Combining the straight line and the circle, these two letters symbolise the two generative organs; from this union, under the sign of the goddess Io, are born all the letters of the alphabet Finally, freehand and with the help of a compass, Tory arranges the twenty-three letters of the alphabet as it then was round a central O representing a sun, whose twenty-three rays are the nine muses, the seven liberal arts, the four cardinal virtues and the three graces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/EYnMx4VX0AAZnMB.jpg?v=1764871160\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty-three letters are considered in the Champ Fleury, commented on and described in detail with a meticulous care that is somewhat reminiscent of a scientist with his microscope ; some are particularly worthy of note.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_12.08.24_PM.jpg?v=1764871717\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe letter A 'has its legs stretched out and spread wide, like a man's feet and legs when he is walking along'. Moreover, the transversal bar of the A 'exactly covers man's genital member to denote that modesty and chastity are to be desired above all things in those who seek access and entry to the world of letters, to which the A is the doorway, being the first letter in all alphabets'. Elsewhere Tory builds the A with a ruler and compass which represent the king and queen respectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_12.07.45_PM.jpg?v=1764871700\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe letter D is like 'the stage of a theatre, such as that which I saw in a city near Avignon on the Rhone' This stage, which has its \"front edge in a straight line and the back in round half-circle can be very easily seen as a letter D'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe letter H represents the body of a house, in that the part below the transverse line which have called central and diametrical is to contain the lesser rooms and chambers. And the part above is thus for the greater rooms or greater and middlesized rooms'.\u003cbr\u003eThe letter I: 'I cannot proceed further without mentioning that our letters owed their invention to divine inspiration. Certainly, at the beginning of the eighth book of the Iliad, Homer, king of Greek poets, told how once upon a time Jupiter declared that if he wished he could pull towards him by means of a golden chain, all the other gods, and even the earth and the sea as well'. If we imagine this golden chain hanging down from the sky to reach our feet, we can see that it is in 'length and breadth comparable in proportion and symmetry to the letter This theme of a golden chain runs through all Tory's work, sometimes linked to other allegories, such as that of the golden branch 'which has twenty-three letters leaves which mysteriously symbolize the twenty-three of the alphabet'. This last image, borrowed from Virgil, shows the influence of the classics and Italy on Tory. I have seen the Coliseum more than a thousand times', he says. And the Coliseum had, when it was still whole, the shape of the letter O, 'round outside and inside oval shaped'.\u003cbr\u003eThe letter L is illustrated by another allegory, of the sign of Libra. It is shaped like the human body and its shadow, 'the sun being in the sign of the Scales' The letter M however, has a more prosaic interpretation : it is 'like certain men, who are so fat that their belts are larger than the height of their body'. But it is Q which gives rise to the most amusing comparison. After having noted that 'this letter Q is the only one of all the letters which steps out of line downwards', for which no one, Tory says, had been able to give him a good reason, he continues by saying: 'I have so pondered and puzzled on these so-called ancient letters, that I have discovered that Q steps out of line because it is never written in any word without its companion and good friend U, and to show that it desires this letter always to follow it, it stretches out its tail below to embrace it. . .\u003cbr\u003eTo pronounce the letter S, is 'to hiss, as powerfully as a redhot iron when it is plunged into water'.\u003cbr\u003eFinally, the letter Y, like the 'vanities' painted by the contemporaries of Tory, is the sign of pleasure and virtue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_12.05.53_PM.jpg?v=1764871683\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConscious of the originality of his approach and of the dialectical excesses to which it might lead him, Geoffroy Tory forestalled the criticisms that might be aimed at him. 'I have no doubt that detractors and tiresome people will sneer at it', he prophesied; but that did not stop him writing his 'fantasy and speculative work, to be of pleasure and service to good students'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSworn enemy of pedantry, Tory equals Rabelais (who was possibly born in the same year as him) in gaiety, good humour and pertinent wit. Here, for example, is how the first book of the Champ Fleury begins: 'On the morning after Twelfth night, after having partaken of : restful sleep, and my stomach having digested, lightly and joyously, the fact that it was now 1523, I began to ponder as I lay in bed and go back over various things in my memory, thinking a thousand inconsequential thoughts, both light and serious, and so doing I remembered an antique letter I had drawn long ago Indeed, this key book is of far more interest than a mere sample alphabet (even if the Champ Fleury was only that, it would still be attractive enough in conception and presentation). In addition to its philological interest it gives valuable indications of the spelling and pronunciation of the time and the graphical notation of accents, apostrophes and the cedilla, which it introduced, the Champ Fleury has played a considerable part in the evolution of French typography. It was, in fact, during the ten years after its publication that roman characters were definitively substituted for the bastard Gothic ones (which are so close in style to manuscript writing) and also superseded the italic letter made fashionable by the Aldine editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApart from different versions of sans-serif type, all descended from the German Bauhaus school which itself developed from the medieval Gothic tradition, the majority of countries which today use the Latin alphabet have found nothing else to offer in the way of typographical print other than Garamond. Which, imbued as it is with the spirit of the Renaissance, was designed in 1545 by Claude Garamond - who was, in fact the pupil of Geoffroy Tory.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ein Drucker \u0026amp; McVarish, Graphic Design History: Tory's design for a constructed initial was based on the application of geometrical principles to the creation of ideal letterforms. Such approaches were not applied strictly mechanically in the Renaissance any more than they had been in antiquity. Adjustments that took the eye and hand into account belonged to the period's aesthetic. Although Tory's work was far from mechanistic. it did have a rational basis in principles of order and measure that could be extrapolated as rules for graphic design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/GeoffroyTory1529-LettresFantastiques.jpg?v=1764871037\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn A.D. Reader Pt 1:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_12.20.14_PM.jpg?v=1764872435\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Now-Time","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56019153027240,"sku":"xqy1789814863593","price":17.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/9084\/5096\/files\/champ-fleury_1.gif?v=1789814870"},{"product_id":"visual-variables","title":"Visual Variables","description":"\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease allow 16 working days to process before shipping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e6.5oz Cement Short Sleeve\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eMade in USA - 100% USA Cotton\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 86, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cimg height=\"90\" width=\"357\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/sizechart.png?v=1746031678\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(53, 126, 76);\"\u003eA.D. Reader Pt. 2\u003c\/span\u003e, 98–103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-25_at_11.51.23_AM.jpg?v=1774457501\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJacques Bertin was a French cartographer and theorist, known from his book Sémiologie Graphique (Semiology of Graphics), published in 1967. This monumental work, based on his experience as a cartographer and geographer, represents the first and widest intent to provide a theoretical foundation to Information Visualization. PDF of Semiology of Graphics\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Dg-L89OVMAA34hv.jpg?v=1774457644\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGRAPHICS AS \u003cstrong\u003eBOTH\u003c\/strong\u003e COMMUNICATION \u0026amp; RESEARCH:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-02-25_at_1.09.03_PM_088dacb2-d0ca-4407-a230-0b12af48537b.jpg?v=1774457016\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSimplification Is an Obligation of the Communication Process\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhether communication involves a verbal statement or a graphic representation, it starts from complex information and aims at making it understood, that is, at discovering combinational elements which are less numerous than the initial elements yet capable of describing all the information in a simpler form. When it is logical, the simplification is creative. By revealing concepts of a higher order, enables us to know more than our predecessors, and more still with each generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-02-25_at_6.18.22_PM.jpg?v=1774457071\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"And now, at the end of the twentieth century, with the pressure of modern information and the advances of data processing, graphics is passing through a new and fundamental stage. The great difference between the graphic representation of yesterday, which was poorly dissociated from the figurative image, and the graphics of tomorrow, is the disappearance of the congenital fixity of the image.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"When one can superimpose, juxtapose, transpose, and permute graphic images in ways that lead to groupings and classings, the graphic image passes from the dead image, the \"illustration,\" to the \u003cstrong\u003eliving image\u003c\/strong\u003e, the widely accessible \u003cstrong\u003eresearch instrument it is now becoming\u003c\/strong\u003e. The graphic is no longer only the \"representation\" of a final simplification, it is a point of departure for the discovery of these simplifications and the means for their justification. The graphic has become. by its manageability, an \u003cstrong\u003einstrument for information processing\u003c\/strong\u003e. Its study must begin, then, with the analysis of the information to be transcribed.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-02-25_at_6.18.16_PM.jpg?v=1774456982\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-25_at_11.43.56_AM.jpg?v=1774457049\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn order to be visible a mark must have a power reflect light which is different from that of the paper. The larger the mark, the less pronounced the difference need be. A black mark of minimum visibility and discriminability must have diameter of 2\/10 mm. But this is not absolute, since constellation of smaller marks is perfectly visible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE VISUAL VARIABLES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA mark can thus express a correspondence between the two series constituted by the TWO PLANAR DIMENSIONS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/FvOjbyhaEAAXN0A.png?v=1774457600\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFixed at a given point on the plane, the mark, provided it has a certain dimension, can be drawn in different modes. It can vary in SIZE VALUE TEXTURE COLOR ORIENTATION SHAPE and can also express correspondence between its planar position and its position in the series constituting each variable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe designer thus has eight variables to work with. They are the components of the graphic system and will be called the \"visual variables.\" They form the world of images. With them the designer suggests perspective, the painter reality, the graphic draftsman ordered relationships, and the cartographer space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-25_at_11.52.45_AM.jpg?v=1774458104\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis analysis of atemporal visual perception in eight factors does not exclude other approaches. But, combined with the notion of \"implantation,\" it has the advantage of being more systematic, while remaining applicable to the practical problems encountered in graphic construction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese variables have different properties and different capacities for portraying given types of information. As with all components, each variable is characterized by its level of organization and its length. We will first study the properties of the PLANE, then those of the RETINAL VARIABLES which can be \"elevated\" above the plane.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Jacques-Bertins-graphic-semiology-16.png?v=1774457644\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHREE FUNCTIONS OF GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(1) RECORDING INFORMATION: creating a storage mechanism which avoids the effort of memorization. The graphic utilized for this purpose must be comprehensive and may be nonmemorizable in its totality.\u003cbr\u003e(2) COMMUNICATING INFORMATION: creating a memorizable image which will inscribe the information in the viewer's mind. The graphic used here must be memorizable and may be noncomprehensive. The image should be a simple one.\u003cbr\u003e(3) PROCESSING INFORMATION: furnishing the drawings which permit a SIMPLIFICATION and its justification. The graphic should be memorizable (for comparisons) and comprehensive (for choices).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInformation with three components or less, constructed as a single image, can fulfill all three functions of graphic representation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesign by Jurriaan Schrofer:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/tumblr_o3ewyrD39Z1sizr65o1_1280.jpg?v=1774458020\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBertin's Projection:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Visionscarto-bertin1953_svg.png?v=1774457155\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnother Atlas:\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/aby_warburg_tavole_mnemosyne-1024x445.jpg?v=1774457897\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClaude Levi-Strauss shout:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-02-26_at_9.12.32_AM.png?v=1774457196\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-25_at_12.12.16_PM.jpg?v=1774458757\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"p-lang-btn\" class=\"vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Now-Time","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":56019153060008,"sku":"djc1789814866083","price":31.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":56019153092776,"sku":"yzb1789814866084","price":29.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":56019153125544,"sku":"nea1789814866085","price":28.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":56019153158312,"sku":"kzm1789814866086","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XXL","offer_id":56019153191080,"sku":"leg1789814866087","price":27.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/9084\/5096\/files\/visual-variables_1.gif?v=1789814872"},{"product_id":"egg-potential","title":"Egg Potential","description":"\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease allow 16 working days to process before shipping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eGarment Dyed - 6.5oz Orange Long Sleeve\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eMade in USA - 100% USA Cotton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/sizechart.png?v=1746031678\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"88\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(72, 117, 77);\"\u003eA.D. Reader Pt. 2\u003c\/span\u003e, 108-111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-26_at_1.17.25_PM.jpg?v=1774549079\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003eD'ALEMBERT'S DREAM:\u003cbr\u003ed'Alembert's Dream (or The Dream of d'Alembert, French: Le Rêve de d'Alembert) is an ensemble of three philosophical dialogues authored by Denis Diderot in 1769, which first anonymously appeared in the Correspondance littéraire, philosophique et critique between August and November 1782, but was not published in its own right until 1830\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dialogue opens upon a discussion that Diderot and d'Alembert are having in which Diderot, in arguing for his materialist,monist view of the universe, asserts his belief that sensation is not restricted to sentient beings but is, rather, a quality of all matter. On Diderot's account, sensation is like energy. Energy can exist in a potential state, as when an object is at rest, or, in a kinetic state, as when an object is actually set in motion. Similarly, in Diderot's view, sensation can exist in a potential state (as in nonliving substances) or in an actual state (as in sentient beings.) An example Diderot offers is of marble, which, he claims, if ground up and added to soil, can be converted into nutrients by plants, which may in turn be consumed by humans, and thus made part of a sentient body, thereby actualizing the original marble's potential for sensation. He also offers the example of the molecules that come to make up the sex cells of d'Alembert's mother and father, which then come to form part of d'Alembert's body. Diderot takes the opportunity of this last example to ridicule the notion of pre-existent germs (the notion that the sex cells contain all future generations nested within one another,) advocating instead for epigenesis.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-25_at_10.27.16_PM.png?v=1774495658\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiderot, propelled by questions from d'Alembert, goes on to explain his materialist conception of thought and memory. He likens the human organs to musical instruments, whose fibers are like sympathetic strings that vibrate in response to one another. A thought causes the vibration of certain fibers, and the vibration of those fibers can cause the vibration of other fibers. This is Diderot's explanation of the association of ideas. Memory is explained by a comparison to a string which continues to vibrate even after other strings have stopped vibrating. Thus both sensation and thought are explained without reference to intervention by any immaterial force.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dialogue ends as the two friends reach d'Alembert's apartment and bid each other goodnight. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDIDEROT: \u003cstrong\u003eLook at this egg: with it you can overthrow all the schools of theology and all the churches in the world.\u003c\/strong\u003e What is this egg? An insensitive mass before the germ is put into it, and after the germ is in it what is it then? Still an insensitive mass, for the germ itself is merely inert and thick fluid. How does this mass evolve into a new organization, into sensitivity, into life? Through heat. What will generate heat in it? Motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-26_at_1.18.54_PM.jpg?v=1774549160\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\" style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull Conversation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMagritte's painting Elective Affinities:\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/elective-affinities-1933_1_.jpg_Large_8b7ec8d6-e7c6-4efd-bae0-4bab9467da40.jpg?v=1774495463\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe painting depicts the fact that into a person's ideas are hatched concrete world that is enclosed by this external forces. In terms of thermodynamics, 1933 surrealistic painting depicts the relation of free will and the concept of chemical affinity. This theory was introduced by Johann von Goethe, a German polymath. Elective Affinities by Rene Magritte captured rationale behind free will. the essence of this theory, which explained the Although we may feel free, there are instances always or forces that we cannot control. Hence, human beings may feel as though they are caged because of their inability to take full control of the circumstances that occur in their life. These facts of life are encapsulated in this oil on canvas painting by Magritte.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn sociology, the iron cage is a concept introduced by Max Weber to describe the increased rationalization inherent in social life, particularly in Western capitalist societies. The \"iron cage\" thus traps individuals in systems based purely on teleological efficiency, rational calculation and control. Weber also described the bureaucratization of social order as \"the polar night of icy darkness\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003eBREAK THE IRON CAGE\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/potential_actual.jpg?v=1774549352\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003eThere is a closely linked distinction in Aristotle between potentiality (suvauis, dynamis) and actuality (, energeia, or , entelechia) Matter exists in a state of potentiality- it has the capacity to become many things which attains actuality when combined with form. The precise relationship between matter, form, potentiality, and actuality has been a source of debate among Aristotle scholars from his earliest commentators in the ancient world to philosophers of the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLawrence Halprin's RSVP Cycles:\u003cbr\u003eRSVP cycles is a system of creative methodology for collaboration. It was developed by Lawrence Halprin and Anna Halprin. Lawrence Halprin presented the system in a 1969 book The RSVP Cycles: Creative Processes in the Human Environment.(Halprin 1970)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe name is an initialism referring to its four components:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eR\u003c\/strong\u003eesources: Anything that can be used in the process, including time, physical materials, other people, ideas, limitations etc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eS\u003c\/strong\u003ecore: Instructions for the work. This can be identified along a gradient scale of being an Open or a Closed score.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eV\u003c\/strong\u003ealuaction: A process of dynamically responding to the work based on values.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eP\u003c\/strong\u003eerformance: \u003cstrong\u003eSetting the work in motion.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePages from Halprin's Book on COLLECTIVE CREATIVITY:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-26_at_1.24.58_PM.jpg?v=1774549536\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-26_at_1.24.55_PM.jpg?v=1774549552\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-26_at_1.24.49_PM.jpg?v=1774549568\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-26_at_1.25.08_PM.jpg?v=1774549601\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-26_at_1.27.11_PM.jpg?v=1774549647\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePurkyně eye images:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/2880px-Purkyne_1819.jpg?v=1774495532\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Now-Time","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":56019153223848,"sku":"jvv1789814868114","price":33.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":56019153256616,"sku":"wuz1789814868115","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":56019153289384,"sku":"iat1789814868116","price":29.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":56019153322152,"sku":"kra1789814868117","price":34.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XXL","offer_id":56019153354920,"sku":"vno1789814868118","price":34.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/9084\/5096\/files\/egg-potential_1.gif?v=1789814874"},{"product_id":"ad-dfe-socks","title":"AD + DFE Socks","description":"\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b9b6b6;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease allow 10 working days to process before shipping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2-in-1 Sock Pack\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e 87\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e% Cotton + 11% Nylon + 2% Spandex\u003cbr\u003eOne Size (Mens 6-12) - Made in USA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA.D. = those intrinsic, never finished, dynamically unfolding forces at work on every level. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome call it 🄰pollonian \u0026amp; Ⓓionysian.. others Order \u0026amp; Entropy….Cosmos \u0026amp; Chaos, Stem \u0026amp; Flower...or \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e🄰ngel…Ⓓevil\u003c\/span\u003e…Form \u0026amp; Content, Subject \u0026amp; Object…Freedom…Necessity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eAs the motor of transformation, stereo-conceptions overcome what has been severed. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_10.39.06_AM.jpg?v=1764866370\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA.D. = practical means for bridging age old gaps and overcoming the isolated and exaggerated formations of fixed duality through creative intervention.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_10.40.39_AM.jpg?v=1764866457\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eWhen faced with a choice, do both (without compromise).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eTwo in One: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eHuman beings stand on the ground and walk with two legs. One leg steps forward. To continuously move forward, to grow and develop, is what we all hope for. That is the role of the front leg. However, we have two legs. There is a back leg as well. If the back leg is not planted firmly on the ground it won't provide the strength the front leg needs to move forward. It is only when both legs move alternately, in a joint effort, that we are able to advance. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eWhat is the back leg? What does it mean to step firmly on the ground? The ground, of course, is our heritage of history and civilization. By planting one leg on this vast accumulation of wisdom and knowledge, we enable our other leg to move forward.\u003cbr\u003eOur two legs and their movement-the front leg advancing civilization, the back leg standing on history and tradition-teach us how to live in the present.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eWhen we take another step, the front leg representing the advance of civilization switches roles and becomes the back leg, while the back leg representing history and tradition advances and becomes the front leg. The two legs take turns, and we walk. \"Two legs, one movement\"; again, we are reminded of the philosophy of \"one in two, two in one.' \u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_10.43.17_AM.jpg?v=1764866632\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_10.23.31_AM.jpg?v=1764865426\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDragonfly-Eye: Online Library \u0026amp; Image Bank = https:\/\/www.dragonfly-eye.online\/\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_10.31.23_AM.jpg?v=1764865895\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A reading is prepared with a planetarium projection of material that makes up a learning situation. Words are brought to images, and images to words by counter-statements. A dialogical reading allows for meaningful encounters, engaging a participatory, everyday conception of knowledge attempting to relate texts to more aspects of experience.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_10.33.35_AM.jpg?v=1764866032\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_10.29.27_AM.jpg?v=1764865789\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Cell, 1958:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/2698465756_966519fac0_o.jpg?v=1764867304\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDieter Rot stamp language:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/12.jpg?v=1764865894\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow-Time \u0026amp; Dragonfly-Eye = Two in One, One in Two\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Now-Time","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56019153387688,"sku":"mkr1789814868258","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/9084\/5096\/files\/ad-dfe-socks_1.gif?v=1789814875"},{"product_id":"magician-priest","title":"Magician-Priest","description":"\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease allow 16 working days to process before shipping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e6.5oz Patchouli Short Sleeve\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eMade in USA - 100% USA Cotton\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 86, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/sizechart.png?v=1746031678\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"90\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(48, 90, 59);\"\u003eA.D. Reader Pt. 2\u003c\/span\u003e, p14-17\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-26_at_1.31.12_PM.jpg?v=1774549884\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first of the theoretical dichotomies which Weber develops is that between the \u003cstrong\u003efunction of the magician and the function of the priest\u003c\/strong\u003e in mediating between humans and the supernatural, a dichotomy which will reappear as the distinction between magic and religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/default.jpg?v=1774494921\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeber's distinction is that the magician's function copes with relatively \u003cstrong\u003ead hoc \u003c\/strong\u003einterests and tensions, while the priestly function is organized into a systematic and stabilized \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ecult,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e which is to a significant extent independent of the \u003cem\u003ead hoc\u003c\/em\u003e exigencies which impinge upon the ordinary population of the society. Further, magical forces can be \"forced\" (gezwungen) to serve human needs by the magician's correct use of formulae, while religious agents must be \"worshipped\" or solicited. Religious forces are conceived to have an independent capacity to guide human destiny which the magical forces do not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-04_at_6.19.08_PM.jpg?v=1774493656\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eKolakowski: \u003cbr\u003ePriests and jesters cannot be reconciled unless \u003cstrong\u003eone of them is transformed into the other,\u003c\/strong\u003e as sometimes happens. (Most often the jester becomes a priest-as Socrates became Plato-and not vice versa.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe antagonism between a philosophy that \u003cstrong\u003eperpetuates the absolute\u003c\/strong\u003e and a p\u003cstrong\u003ehilosophy that questions accepted absolutes\u003c\/strong\u003e seems incurable, as incurable as that which exists between conservatism and radicalism in all aspects of human life. This is the antagonism between the priest and the jester, and in almost every epoch the philosophy of the priest and the philosophy of the jester are the two most general forms of intellectual culture. The priest is the guardian of the absolute; he sustains the cult of the final and the obvious as acknowledged by and contained in tradition. The jester is he who moves in good society without belonging to it, and treats it with impertinence; he who doubts all that appears selfevident. He could not do this if he belonged to good society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/14758417096_eae0e42f47_z.jpg?v=1774494891\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003eThe jester is brother to the sage.\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe jester is the eternal\u003cem\u003e puer\u003c\/em\u003e, a skeptical observer of social order: active, critical, questioning all that appears self-evident; he embodies imagination, pluralism, individuality, playfulness, relishes the tensions between ideals, and enjoys exploring the future, the possible, the hopeful. The priest is the \u003cem\u003esenex\u003c\/em\u003e, a conservative who believes in a harmonious system of values; he guards the absolute, defends the past, orthodoxy, tradition and sanctity. \"The priest and the jester both violate the mind; the priest with the garrote of catechism, the fool with the needle of mockery.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe jester must stand outside good society and observe it from the sidelines in order to unveil the nonobvious behind the obvious, the nonfinal behind the final; yet he must frequent society so as to know what it holds sacred and to have the opportunity to address it impertinently.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The jester's constant effort is to consider all the possible reasons for contradictory ideas. It is thus dialectical by nature simply the attempt to change what is because it is. He is motivated not by a desire to be perverse but by distrust of a stabilized system. In a world where apparently everything has already happened, he represents an active imagination defined by the opposition it must overcome.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeber:\u003cbr\u003eIn the end, the charisma of the pure 'mystic' serves only himself. \u003cstrong\u003eThe charisma of the genuine magician serves others.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-25_at_10.48.47_PM.png?v=1774497000\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe\u003cstrong\u003e magician has been the historical precursor of the prophet,\u003c\/strong\u003e of the exemplary as well as of the emissary prophet and savior. As a rule the prophet and the savior have legitimized themselves through the possession of a magical charisma. With them, however, this has been merely a means of securing recognition and followers, for the exemplary significance, the mission, or the savior quality of their personalities. For the substance of the prophecy or of the savior's commandment is to direct a way of life to the pursuit of a sacred value. Thus understood, the prophecy or commandment means, at least relatively, to systematize and rationalize the way of life, either in particular points or totally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/purpose-neu-eulenspiegel-teaser.jpg?v=1774493772\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJean Fisher: \u003cbr\u003eIs trickster a magician? Perhaps. But he is more certainly 'of the earth'. A pragmatist, cultural terrorist, a dice-thrower .and manipulator of the main chance, not a conjuror of the supernatural. His self-appointed role as sauvage savant is a masquerade designed to fulfil a more serious purpose. Trickster is not, and never was, an anthropocentric subject possessing mastery of his world; rather, he exists in a dialogical relation with it. In oral tradition he often appears as a transformer, harmonizing (but by no means eradicating) the contradictions of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeber on the Priest:\u003cbr\u003eThe term \"priest\" may be applied to the functionaries of a regularly organized and permanent enterprise concerned with influencing the gods, in contrast with the individual and occasional efforts of magicians. Even this contrast is bridged over by a sliding scale of transitions, but as a pure type the priesthood is unequivocal and can be said to be characterized by the presence of certain fixed cultic centers associated with some actual cultic apparatus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-26_at_1.36.15_PM.jpg?v=1774550186\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOr it may be thought that what is decisive for the concept of priesthood is that the functionaries, regardless of whether their office is hereditary or personal, be actively associated with some type of \u003cstrong\u003esocial organization\u003c\/strong\u003e, of which they are employees or organs operating in the interests of the organization's members, in contrast with magicians, who are\u003cstrong\u003e self-employed\u003c\/strong\u003e. Yet even this distinction, which is clear enough conceptually, is fluid in actuality. The sorcerer is not infrequently a member of an organized guild, and is occasionally the member of a hereditary caste which may hold a monopoly of magic within the particular community. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-14_at_5.25.44_PM.png?v=1774494817\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-14_at_4.25.08_PM.png?v=1774494803\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet another distinguishing quality of the priest, it is asserted, is his professional equipment of special knowledge, fixed doctrine. and vocational qualifications, which brings him into contrast with sorcerers, prophets, and other types of religious functionaries who exert their influence by virtue of personal gifts (charisma) made manifest in miracle and revelation. But this again is no simple and absolute distinction, since the sorcerer may sometimes be very learned, while deep learning need not always characterize working priests. Rather, the distinction between priest and magician must be established qualitatively with reference to the different nature of the learning in the two cases. As a matter of fact we must later, in our exposition of the forms of domination, distinguish the rational training and discipline of priests from the different preparation of charismatic magicians. The latter preparation proceeds in part as an \"awakening education\" using irrational means and aiming at rebirth, and proceeds in part as a training in purely empirical lore. But in this case also, the two contrasted types flow into one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-26_at_1.38.43_PM.jpg?v=1774550337\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFredric Jameson: The Vanishing Mediator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA vanishing mediator is a concept that exists to mediate between two opposing ideas, as a transition occurs between them. This mediating concept exists just long enough to facilitate such an interaction: at the point where one idea has been replaced by the other, the concept is no longer required and thus vanishes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-25_at_9.56.37_PM.png?v=1774493812\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eTo juxtapose the magician with the priest in these terms is to understand that the magician's personal prestige amounts to a claim to a purely individual revelation, whereas the sacramental power of the priesthood is based on its participation in what is felt to be a universal doctrine. The bureaucratic organization of the priesthood may then be read as the negation of the purely personal and individual power of the magician, and we may tentatively formalize the relationship of these various characteristics to each other as above.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Prophet as Vanishing Mediator:\u003cbr\u003eYet, what such a historical narrative describes is the \"cooling off\" or solidification of charisma itself, as the latter a vanishing mediator in the truest sense of the expression-serves as a bearer of change and social transformation, only to be forgotten once that change has ratified the reality of the institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-15_at_9.07.24_PM.png?v=1774493858\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003eThus, the prophet is able to mediate the basic contradiction between the two social forms or moments of religious practice and to provide a historical transition from one to the other by assimilating traits selected from the opposing forms and by repudiating others. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeber:\u003cbr\u003eNow if a religious community emerges in the wake of a prophecy or of the propaganda of a savior, the control of regular conduct first falls into the hands of the charismatically qualified successors, pupils, disciples of the prophet or of the savior. Later, under certain very regularly recurrent conditions, which we shall not deal with here, this task falls into the hands of a priestly, hereditary, or official hierocracy. Yet, as a rule, the prophet or the savior personally has stood in opposition to the traditional hierocratic powers of magicians or of priests.\u003cstrong\u003e He has set his personal charisma against their dignity consecrated by tradition in order to break their power or force them to his service.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJameson citing Kluge:\u003cbr\u003e\"We must let \u003cstrong\u003eTill Eulenspiegel \u003c\/strong\u003epass across Marx and Eisenstein both, in order to create a confusion allowing knowledge and emotions to be combined together in new ways.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e____\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSummary: https:\/\/darkwing.uoregon.edu\/~sporter\/lecture17.html\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharisma: mainly a quality of the individual that places him or her above normal expectations and endows him or her with the authority to utter new commandments; it is a relational concept because it comes into existence only when it is recognized by a group.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProphet: \"a purely individual bearer of charisma, who by virtue of his mission proclaims a religious doctrine of divine commandment.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is \"the personal call\" that is \"the decisive element\" that distinguishes \"the prophet from the priest.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe priest’s authority is based on his or her service to a sacred tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn contrast, the prophet’s authority is based on \"personal revelation and charisma.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnlike magicians prophets claim \"definite revelations.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCore of a prophet’s mission: a doctrine about how to live, not magic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat most distinguishes the prophet from priests and magicians \"is an economic factor\": prophets (e.g., Amos) don’t get paid for their prophecies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e___\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMichelet on Rabelais:\u003cbr\u003eRabelais collected wisdom from the popular elemental forces of the ancient Provencal idioms, sayings, proverbs, school farces, from the mouth of foo.s and clowns. But refracted by this foolery, the genius of the age and its prophetic power are revealed in all their majesty. If he does not discover, he foresees, he promises, he directs. Under each tiny leaf of this forest of dreams, the fruit which the future will harvest lies hidden. This entire book is a golden bough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Dyl_Ulenspiegel.jpg?v=1774550468\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe word jester', too, has a respectable ancestry. The chansons de geste played prominent part in medieval literature from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries. They were epics centred on heroic events; their name is derived from the Latin gesta: deeds, exploits. 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We have not \"overcome\" circular time, which beats out the rhythm of our daily living. Historical time governs our decisions and the acts we base on those decisions. As for post-Modern, sand-heap time, it remains an uncomfortable, confusing concept, which we have not yet incorporated into our experience and thinking. Yet it is this new time that shapes artistic creation. And thus it helps to make artists more conscious of the task to which they are committed: the inversion of the absurd tendency of the world toward entropy, toward ever more probable (and therefore ever less interesting) situations. Which is to say that artists are committed against the mindless stupidity of the world.\" – Vilém Flusser, Three Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoethius discusses the true nature of Fortune. Good fortune is temporal and vanishes quickly:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Boethius__Consolatio_philosophiae__French.jpg?v=1764867937\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMississippi River:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/unnamed_29fbc93f-3086-4359-ae2a-51b073c4fd7d.jpg?v=1764867937\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClinamen [klyn-ah-mun] is the Latin name Roman  philosopher Lucretius gave to the unpredictable swerve of atoms, in order to defend the atomistic doctrine of ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus. According to Lucretius, the unpredictable swerve occurs ‘at no fixed place or time’:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/swerve1.png?v=1764867937\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/atomi_epicurei.jpg?v=1764868126\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTycho Brahe's Geo-Helio Model:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/500_0_612499d2d91a3.jpg?v=1764868078\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Order Out of Chaos: Ilya Prigogine:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_11.08.59_AM.jpg?v=1764868153\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\"What have we seen? oh, well,\u003cbr\u003eWe have seen waves, seen stars, seen quite a bit of sand; We have been shipwrecked once or twice; but, truth to tell, It's just as dull as here in any foreign land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRepublished in A.D. Reader Pt.1:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_11.02.01_AM.jpg?v=1764867737\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eevery possible accident must necessarily happen.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_11.02.59_AM.jpg?v=1764867801\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFlusser elsewhere:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur species transmits acquired and inherited information from generation to generation.\u003cbr\u003eThis doubly contradicts nature. The Second Principle of Thermodynamics states that information contained within nature tends to be forgotten. Living organisms contradict that principle by preserving and transmitting genetic information. They constitute a memory in defiance of the entropy of nature. Mendel's biological law states that acquired information cannot be transmitted from organism to organism. Our species contradicts that law by having an elaborate cultural memory, progressively storing acquired information to which successive generations have access. This double negation of nature, although only temporary, constitutes the human condition. Human dignity, which distinguishes us from all other known beings, can be defined as the fact that we have both a genetic and a cultural memory, that we are 'historical beings'. Human dignity will acquire new meaning as electronic memories radically transform our cultural memory. This article considers some aspects of that transformation. (On Memory (Electronic of Ortherwise)), 1990\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Now-Time","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":56019153584296,"sku":"zjl1789814875986","price":32.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":56019153617064,"sku":"yzf1789814875987","price":33.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":56019153649832,"sku":"rdc1789814875987","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":56019153682600,"sku":"olv1789814875988","price":31.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XXL","offer_id":56019153715368,"sku":"rpd1789814875989","price":27.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/9084\/5096\/files\/flusser-three-times_1.gif?v=1789814883"},{"product_id":"the-real-big-dance","title":"The *Real* Big Dance","description":"\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease allow 16 working days to process before shipping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e6.5oz Vintage Black - Sleeveless Tee\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eMade in USA - 100% USA Cotton\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 86, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/sizechart.png?v=1746031678\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"90\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErnst Bloch, \"The Dialectical Method\":\u003cbr\u003eThe idiot never notices that everything has two sides. He works with wooden ideas, with simple uniform ideas at which he can stop for breath and in which nothing happens. If he were to think a thought through to its end, he would notice that a struggle is taking place, that objections arise within which enrich it and disarrange its content.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-25_at_4.04.38_PM.jpg?v=1774472733\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA is not always A, B must also be posited, and it is precisely consistency which shows B to be the contradiction. Above the consequent span C arises as apex and unity; that is until C splits too, and a new unity of contradictions emerges in irresistible dialectical development.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuckminster Fuller:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-25_at_3.43.48_PM.jpg?v=1774471437\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eActual thought never runs in straight lines, like thought which is fixed, cut and dried, in which nothing expands or changes and which is therefore incapable of doing justice to transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoethe: Propagat. Gemmation, 1829:\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/spiralefigure1.jpg?v=1774472361\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThought moves in triangles. \u003c\/strong\u003eThese triangles, consisting of contradiction, unity, new contradiction, new unity, and so on, do not need to be schematically traced out each time. That would be incompatible with the free agility of elastic thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKlee's Notebooks:\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-25_at_3.52.35_PM.jpg?v=1774471977\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndeed, the triangle is not the only possible form, more contradictions than just this A and B are possible and they do not all have to refer to the same point of unity. But reliable, actual thought never takes a straight course, rigid and unchanged, like the rhythm of the nodding head of the pagoda or the dreadful, monomaniac, thoroughly undialectical thought of the madman. A man who continually entangles himself in contradictions is not for that a dialectician. If he cannot find his way out of the contradictions, he is much more a charlatan and, in the end, a perfect image of chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHogarth's Analysis of Beauty:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Serpentine_lines_from_William_Hogarth_s_The_Analysis_of_Beauty.jpg?v=1774472293\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut thought which seeks a viable course, set on finding solutions, without going through the dialectical turn in which no determination is complete in itself, lands in chaos from the other side, namely in the chaos of rigidity. It cannot comprehend what is living and on the terrain of transformation there is no other with its fixed clumsiness, it will always stumble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e Goethe, Spiral growth of Vegetation, 1828\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/spiralefigure2.jpg?v=1774472778\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Dialectical Method\" was published as Chapter Nine of Ernst Bloch's \u003cem\u003eSubject-Object. Erlauterungen zu Hegel, \u003c\/em\u003e1951.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003eA TRIANGLE IS A SPIRAL AND IS ONE ENERGY EVENT\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA page from M.N Roy's Reason, Romanticism and Revolution: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-25_at_4.13.50_PM.jpg?v=1774473331\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eM.N. Roy in A.D. 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As insights that remain valid today, the past becomes a conscious part of the present, a living toolkit to help us make leaps towards the not-yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(68, 111, 86);\"\u003eSelections from:\u003c\/span\u003e Erich Fromm, Max Weber, Gloria Anzaldúa, Charles Jencks, Jacques Ellul, Raymond Williams, Kakuzō Okakura, André Breton, James Baldwin \u0026amp; Margaret Mead, Murray Bookchin, Alexandra Kollontai, Simone Weil, Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Marie Neurath, Jean-Paul Sartre, Manabendra Nath Roy, Ali Shari’ati, Marianne Thalmann Édouard Glissant, Guy Debord, Gertrude Stein, Jacques Bertin, Joaquín Torres-García, Denis Diderot, Sidney Finkelstein, Theodore Roszak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003eRecovering the split between hand and head.\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the motor of transformation, stereo-conceptions overcome what has been severed, (humanity \u0026amp; nature, reality \u0026amp; imagination, past \u0026amp; present, materialism \u0026amp; spiritualism, quality \u0026amp; quantity, determinism \u0026amp; chance, status quo \u0026amp; change). Putting each (false) side into oscillation, they cease to be antinomies through practice. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA.D. says duality is in fact naiveté. Absolving abstract dualisms for a comprehensive viewpoint.  Recognizing the whole of things is to consider everything that happening between the poles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-26_at_12.15.37_PM.jpg?v=1774545357\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Texts that shall survive their time\" - for use by new generations that still wrestle with the same fundamental struggles. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-26_at_12.11.21_PM.jpg?v=1774545096\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA.D. is an approach and a joining together. A prerequisite for cooperative relations.  The moral of the story and the meaning of life. When faced with a choice, do both (without compromise).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith continual reflection is the possibility for perpetual beginnings against intellectual and practical domination and control.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShips with 22.75\" x 34\" Poster\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-26_at_12.10.20_PM.jpg?v=1774545029\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Now-Time","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56019153944744,"sku":"png1789814881442","price":7.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/9084\/5096\/files\/ad-reader-part-2_1.jpg?v=1789814887"},{"product_id":"dante-beatrice-among-the-stars","title":"Dante \u0026 Beatrice Among The Stars","description":"\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease allow 16 working days to process before shipping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e14oz Ash Gray Hoodie\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eMade in USA - 50% Cotton 50% Polyester\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 86, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/hoodiespecs.gif?v=1758823375\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"92\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ethe spirit of \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(30, 118, 62);\"\u003eA.D. Reader \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(10, 10, 10);\"\u003eproject:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"The souls of the blessed float around them in space\". \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(15, 16, 15);\"\u003eFragments as footholds \u0026amp; lifelines. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-25_at_12.46.02_PM.jpg?v=1774460784\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003eThe spirits become globes, spinning joyously on stable axes, flaming out in turn like comets. One glows brighter than the rest, detaches himself from the dance, orbits Beatrice three times and addresses her warmly.\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePARADISO: The Paradiso begins at the top of Mount Purgatory, called the Earthly Paradise (i.e. the Garden of Eden), at noon on Wednesday, March 30 (or April 13), 1300, following Easter Sunday. Dante's journey through Paradise takes approximately twenty-four hours, which indicates that the entire journey of the Divine Comedy has taken one week, Thursday evening (Inferno I and II) to Thursday evening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter ascending through the sphere of fire believed to exist in the earth's upper atmosphere (Canto I), Beatrice guides Dante through the nine celestial spheres of Heaven, to the Empyrean, which is the abode of God. The nine spheres are concentric, as in the standard medieval geocentric model of cosmology, which was derived from Ptolemy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeatrice: Beatrice personally appears near the end of the Purgatorio to take over as guide from the Latin poet Virgil because, as a pagan, Virgil cannot enter Paradise. Moreover, Beatrice, being the incarnation of beatific love (as her name implies), is uniquely suited to lead the pilgrim into the realm of divine bliss. Naturally, then, it is Beatrice who must lead the pilgrim into heaven. \u003cstrong\u003eWhere Virgil is understood as human reason and philosophy, Beatrice represents religious knowledge and passion: theology, faith, contemplation, and grace.\u003c\/strong\u003e Philosophy is suited to guide the pilgrim through the less holy realms of sin and repentance, but only divine faith can completely lead the soul to God.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Beatrice guides Dante through the spheres of Heaven, she grows increasingly beautiful and indescribable, representing Dante's progress towards God. She frequently corrects Dante during his journey, acting as a spiritual guide and source of wisdom. Contrary to her initial harsh treatment, throughout Paradiso Beatrice is encouraging and patient towards Dante, taking joy in his gradual progress. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/NC257_B7_L55_1921Paradiso21.jpg?v=1774469466\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCertain portions of the Divine Comedy were well-known throughout\u003cbr\u003eItaly in Dante's life-time, and after his death (1321), the whole poem was repeatedly copied, and widely circulated. Manuscripts for rich amateurs were generally written on parchment by skilled calligraphists, the initial letters of cantos and divisions being, as was usual in medieval codices, illuminated in gold and colours. In many instances, an ornamentation springing from the initial, extended over the whole page. Within the opening letter of the poem, it was customary to enclose a portrait of Dante, writing, in which the artist made a more or less successful attempt at likeness, or a group of Dante and Virgil, or a miniature presentment of some familiar episode. In the more costly manuscripts, illuminations occupying half, or sometimes the whole of a page were introduced, on which the painter bestowed his utmost care and skill in the delineation of some characteristic scene from the canto before him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was characteristic of the Renaissance spirit to feel no incongruity in the \u003cstrong\u003eblending of the sacred and the profane\u003c\/strong\u003e. Pagan and Christian symbols are unhesitatingly introduced side by side.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBotticelli's Divine Comedy:\u003cbr\u003eThe Divine Comedy Illustrated by Botticelli is a manuscript of the Divine Comedy by Dante, illustrated by 92 full-page pictures by Sandro Botticelli that are considered masterpieces and amongst the best works of the Renaissance painter. The images are mostly not taken beyond silverpoint drawings, many worked over in ink, but four pages are fully coloured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe manuscript eventually disappeared and most of it was rediscovered in the late nineteenth century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe entire thematic sequence of each canto was supposed to be illustrated by its own full-page drawing by Botticelli, an unprecedentedly ambitious conception. Normally, by the 15th century, a single incident was shown in each framed illustration in illustrated Dantes, as for other narrative works. Botticelli was combining this tradition with another, continuous narrative, where recurrent incidents were shown, usually unframed and in the margin below the text. Thus the principal figures of Dante, Virgil and Beatrice often appear several times in an image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI. Botticelli shews us Dante conducted by Beatrice to the spheres of Paradise. They are depicted floating upwards over meadows watered by the stream of Eunoé. The artist has drawn his inspiration from the closing verse of the Purgatorio: Pure and made apt for mounting to the stars, from V. 47 and 48 of Canto I of the Paradiso, which describe Beatrice as gazing upwards at the sun, like the eagle, and from the imagery of verses  illustrating the lightning-course of Dante and his mistress through the air, a course which, governed by the natural laws of the sphere they have entered, has become so swift and easy as to be almost imperceptible to the poet. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Sandro_Botticelli_-_Paradiso__Canto_IX.jpg?v=1774468160\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eII. Dante's discourse with Beatrice, in the sphere of the moon, entering which they seem to be enveloped in a cloud of diamond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThe virtue and motion of the sacred orbs \u003cbr\u003eAs mallet by the workman's hands, must needs\u003cbr\u003eBy blessed movers be inspired.\u003cbr\u003eThis heaven Made beauteous by so many luminaries,\u003cbr\u003eFrom the deep spirit that moves its circling sphere, \u003cbr\u003eIts image takes, an impress like a seal.\u003cbr\u003eAnd as the soul that dwells within your dust,\u003cbr\u003eThrough members different, yet together form'd,\u003cbr\u003eIn different power resolves itself; e'en so \u003cbr\u003eThe intellectual efficacy unfolds\u003cbr\u003eIts goodness multiplied throughout the stars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/3543.jpg?v=1774467778\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Like a bird that anxiously awaits the sunrise in order to seek food for her young, Beatrice gazes upwards. Soon the zenith grows light. Joyfully, the lady calls out to her ward to look at the multitudes who march in the triumphal procession of Christ. Through the radiance of a thousand lights Dante sees the sun (of Christ) that gives them all light, the light-giving substance ('lucente sustanza'). So intense is the light that he turns aside to his lady, dazzled. She explains to him that this is the manifestation of wisdom and of the power that has opened the path from Earth to heaven, a power which overwhelms him but which he must not and cannot resist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis soul bursts out like lightning from a dark cloud, beyond the power of memory to recall. When he opens his eyes again, he has grown fit to see Beatrice in her true guise and to behold her smile. The poet can nevertheless make no attempt to describe the heavenly face of his beloved in his 'sacred poem' ('sacrato poema'). At length, Beatrice draws his attention away from herself to the Virgin Mary and the Apostles: they stand out in the circle of reflective souls beneath the source of all light, which has withdrawn to give Dante once more space for his vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/paradise-canto-vi-1490_1_.jpg_Large_bcaeebf3-2674-460d-a6e6-1d8f180025fc.jpg?v=1774468111\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe sees the Mother of God as the brightest sapphire in a descending circle of flames, encircled and praised by *angelic love' ('amore angelico'). As this vision withdraws, his eyes can follow it only little way, for he is still far removed from the outermost level of Paradise (the Primum Mobile). The lights that remain, among them Peter, direct their flames longingly upwards in honour of Mary and raise their voices in the hymn 'Regina coeli' ('Queen of Heaven').\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis soul bursts out like lightning from a dark cloud, beyond the power of memory to recall. When he opens his eyes again, he has grown fit to see Beatrice in her true guise and to behold her smile. The poet can nevertheless make no attempt to describe the heavenly face of his beloved his 'sacred poem' ('sacrato poema'). At length, Beatrice draws his attention away from herself to the Virgin Mary and the Apostles: they stand out in\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParadiso, Canto XXIII\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-24_at_1.15.31_PM.jpg?v=1774459240\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003eXXIII\u003cbr\u003eDante and Beatrice in the sphere of the fixed stars. Thousands of blessed spirits circle round the light of Christ, who shines in their midst like the sun at noon-day (V. 94 et seq.). Botticelli has dwelt only upon this, among the varied phenomena described by the poet. The constellations of the Twins and the Bull are lightly sketched with the silver point , under the feet of Dante and Beatrice (cf. Par. XXII, V. 110-111).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-25_at_3.32.05_PM.jpg?v=1774470751\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXXIV\u003cbr\u003eDante and Beatrice in the sphere of the fixed stars. Christ shines like the sun at noon-day. The souls of the blessed revolve round this sun, from which they receive their light, as around a fixed pole (cf. Par. XXIII). The drawing seems to refer more especially to the opening verses of the canto, in which Beatrice begs the blessed spirits to satisfy Dante's thirst for heavenly knowledge.\u003cbr\u003eThe glowing light which envelopes the soul of St. Peter hovers over the heads of Dante and Beatrice. On it is inscribed the name: \"Piero\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/0905ascent.jpg?v=1774468175\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXXV\u003cbr\u003eDante and Beatrice in the sphere of the fixed stars. The holy fires circle round Christ, the Sun. After St. Peter's colloquy with Dante, another light detaches itself from the galaxy, and advances towards him. This is St. James the Apostle. Beatrice addresses Dante (V. 17-18): \"Lo! lo! behold the peer of mickle might That makes Galicia throng'd with visitants.\"\u003cbr\u003e(Alluding to Compostella in Galicia , the shrine of St. James.) The composition is suggested by these lines.\u003cbr\u003eThree flames, inscribed respectively \"Piero\", \"Giovanni\", \"Jachopo\", hover over Dante's head.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Dante-and-Beatrice-Wallpaper-Mural.webp?v=1774459216\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXXVI\u003cbr\u003eDante and Beatrice in the sphere of the fixed stars (cf. the last drawing). Dante is so dazzled by the glory of St. John, that he loses the power of sight for a while. The illustration, however, seems to deal, not with this episode, but with the description in V. 70-76. Dante, having concluded the speech in which he discourses of the effects of man's love for God, recovers his sight.\u003cbr\u003eAnd as a sleep is broken and dispersed Through sharp encounter of the nimble light With the eye's spirit running forth to meet The ray, from membrane on to membrane urg'd, And the upstartled wight loathes that he sees; So, at his sudden waking, he misdeems Of all around him. till assurance waits On better judgment; thus the saintly dame Drove from before mine eyes the motes away.\u003cbr\u003e(Beatrice tells him that the fourth light, which now approaches him, is Adam, the father of mankind.) Over the heads of Dante and Beatrice are four lights, inscribed respectively: \"Piero\", \"Giovanni\" \"Jachopo\", \"Adamo\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/0108arrival.jpg?v=1774468132\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXXVII\u003cbr\u003eDante and Beatrice linger in the heaven of the fixed stars. Peter speaks with indignation of the actual state of the church.\u003cbr\u003eThe holy flames then vanish upwards. Beatrice exhorts Dante to cast his eyes down once more, and note the distance he has travelled since his last observation (Par. XXII). Dante sees the tract he has passed over, and a portion of the earth illuminated by the sun. Dante and Beatrice then ascend from the constellation Gemini (Castor and Pollux, \"Leda's children\" V. 98), to the ninth, or highest heaven.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/HBBi5AsXkAAJy-1.jpg?v=1774459199\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNone of Botticelli's known works bear either date or signature, and only in a few instances are we able to assign them with any confidence to a particular period. We can therefore only approximately trace the course of his artistic development. Further difficulties beset us from the fact that Botticelli early surrounded himself with a numerous band of pupils and assistants. In his \u003cem\u003ebottega\u003c\/em\u003e, a combination of school and workshop such as grew up round every popular master of the times, pictures were executed, for the more important parts of which, such as the heads and hands, the master was himself responsible, while the rest was left to his assistants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Blake's version:\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-02-27_at_12.18.00_PM.jpg?v=1774460635\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGustave Doré's Paradiso:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Paradiso_Canto_31.jpg?v=1774470222\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Now-Time","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":56019154305192,"sku":"mnw1789814889026","price":49.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":56019154337960,"sku":"mqb1789814889027","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":56019154370728,"sku":"cqs1789814889028","price":50.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":56019154403496,"sku":"moq1789814889029","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XXL","offer_id":56019154436264,"sku":"ryx1789814889030","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/9084\/5096\/files\/dante-beatrice-among-the-stars_1.gif?v=1789814895"},{"product_id":"peppers-ghost","title":"Pepper’s Ghost","description":"\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(195, 195, 195);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease allow 10 working days to process before shipping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGarment Dyed - 6.5oz Ivy Short Sleeve\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eMade in USA - 100% USA Cotton\u003cbr\u003e*back to the old boxier blanks\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(110, 132, 220);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ePrinted by Mike's Deli\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/sizechart.png?v=1746031678\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"88\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePepper's Ghost:\u003cbr\u003eAn illusion technique, used in the theatre, cinema, amusement parks, museums, television, and concerts, in which an image of an object off-stage is projected so that it appears to be in front of the audience. *\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-29_at_6.43.21_PM.jpg?v=1745981901\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCocteau:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\"Even if the means of transmission no longer exist and my image can't be projected any more, in any case, I hope to be before you as a ghost even though I don't believe in death.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-29_at_8.03.10_PM.jpg?v=1745981901\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I do not believe in death because death is one of the forms of life.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-29_at_11.19.30_PM.jpg?v=1745983191\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-29_at_6.46.14_PM.jpg?v=1745981901\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eon Jean-Marie Straub, Cocteau and \u003cstrong\u003eMirrors\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-03-14_at_6.47.38_PM.jpg?v=1745984089\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I should not wish you to remember me or rather this \"I\" who is speaking to you, but the I who dwells in the shadows, in my shadows, and that has been expressed with great lack of control, for I say to you again, control is very dangerous. Faults are the true expression of the individual.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-29_at_7.57.39_PM.jpg?v=1745981901\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"And if my work is valid, I should like there to be written on my gravestone: \"I am beginning.\"\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-17_at_6.21.34_PM.jpg?v=1745981901\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eColeridge (who coined \"Intermedia\" in 1812):\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn every work of art there is a reconcilement of the external with the internal; the conscious is so impressed on the unconscious as to appear in it; \u003cstrong\u003eas compared mere letters inscribed on a tomb with figures themselves constituting the tomb\u003c\/strong\u003e. He who combines the two is the man of genius; and for that reason he must partake of both. Hence there is in genius itself an unconscious activity; nay, that is the genius in the man of genius. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCocteau's Epitaph in \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMilly-la-Forêt : \"I Stay With You\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-29_at_11.07.56_PM.jpg?v=1745982492\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eW.E.B. Du Bois: \u003cbr\u003eI remember once offering to an editor an article which began with a reference to the experience of the last century. ‘Oh,’ he said, ‘leave out the history and come to the present.’ I felt like going to him over a thousand miles and taking him by the lapels and saying, ‘Dear, dear jackass! \u003cstrong\u003eDon’t you understand that the past is the present\u003c\/strong\u003e; that without what was, nothing is? 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Your young people are no longer caught - I hope - between two stools.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-10_at_7.42.14_PM.jpg?v=1745987830\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Our young people are caught between two stools.\" [straddling contradictions]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The young people of our day have not known the \"Great Age,\" which is what the heroic age of Montparnasse was called. No, the young people of today have known nothing of my civilization, the civilization that I knew predated the apprentice robots of today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI hope that you have not become full-fledged robots but, on the contrary, have been humanized. This is my hope.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-30_at_12.45.47_AM.jpg?v=1745988363\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnthony Froshaug in 'The social context of art':\u003cbr\u003e\"When I was an adolescent, I was told of a country where doctors \u0026amp; painters, lawyers \u0026amp; poets, artisans and ordinary men relaxed a café on a busy street, while the random world milled to-and-fro, passers-by. I never went there: indeed, by the time I could have gone, it had turned into rotten wood, a fly-trap for packaged tourists.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChrist in Limbo, by a Follower of Hieronymus Bosch, 1575~:\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Follower_of_Jheronimus_Bosch_Christ_in_Limbo.jpg?v=1745987831\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuridan's ass:\u003cbr\u003eIt refers to a hypothetical situation wherein an ass (or donkey) that is equally hungry and thirsty is placed precisely midway between a stack of hay and a pail of water. 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He once said to me, \"It takes a long time to grow young.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was right, in the sense that a young person has not yet found his way. A young person wonders where he is going. Whether he is going left or right. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHe is anxious. Therefore, he is old.\u003c\/strong\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/1725885031919.jpg?v=1745988950\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBruegel the Elder’s Twelve Proverbs (1558):\u003cbr\u003eTo sit between two stools in the ashes. 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May God us keep From Single vision \u0026amp; Newtons sleep.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— William Blake, Letter to Thomas Butts, 22 November 1802.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaolozzi after Blake:\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/eduardo-paolozzi-newton-after-blake.jpg?v=1769711442\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTheodore Rozak\u003c\/strong\u003e: That Blake was a fire-eating radical and the ally of the English Jacobins has long been obvious from his life and from much of his writing. But the political significance of his \"mental fight\" against the psychology of science and the culture of industrialism has been less appreciated least of all in his own lifetime, when the task of keeping a minimum of skin stretched over one's bones was a full-time struggle for millions. Yet even during those first agonies of industrialization, Blake recognized there was another, darker politics unfolding beneath the surface of class conflict. He saw in the steady advance of science and its machines a terrifying aggression against precious human potentialities and especially against the visionary imagination. The \"mind-forg'd manacles\" he assailed were not simply the fetters of social oppression. They were that. But they were far more. Blake's attack struck through the \"dark Satanic mills\" at Newton, at Locke, at Bacon. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eBlake is objecting to the literalism of the Newtonian mindset. He would have us see multiple significances in everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlake's Newton, 1795 (Personification of Man Limited by Reason):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Newton-WilliamBlake.jpg?v=1769710722\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the Blake Dictionary:\u003cbr\u003eSingle vision is not properly \"vision\" at all: it is seeing with the physical eye only the facts before it. It \"leads you to Believe a Lie | When you see with, not thro' the Eye\" (EG d:105).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwofold vision is seeing \"through\" the eye: it is the perception of the human values in all things. Then the thistle in the path reveals a discouraging old man (To Butts, 22 Nov 1802, 23-30), or the rising sun \"an Innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying 'Holy, Holy, Holy | the Lord God Almighty! 2 (J, K 617). Threefold vision \"in soft Beulah's night\", the creative state, where thought appears in emotional form. Fourfold Vision: \"my supreme delight\", is the mystical ecstasy, such as the one Blake has just been describing to Butts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Blake wrote \"Art is the Tree of Life. Science is the Tree of Death.\" Newton's theory of optics was especially offensive to Blake, who made a clear distinction between the vision of the \"vegetative eye\" and spiritual vision. The deistic view of God as a distant creator who played no role in daily affairs was anathema to Blake, who claimed to regularly experience visions of a spiritual nature. He contrasts his \"four-fold vision\" to the \"single vision\" of Newton, whose \"natural religion\" of scientific materialism he characterized as sterile.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEduardo Paolozzi's Newton's Sleep:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Statue_of_Newton__after_Paolozzi__in_the_British_Library_courtyard__13598958575.jpg?v=1769710771\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewiki: \"The print was intended by Blake to criticise Newton's profane knowledge, usurping the sacred knowledge and power of the creator Urizen, with the scientist turning away from nature to focus on his books.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cspan\u003eIt can be interpreted as symbolising a confluence of the two cultures\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the arts and the sciences, and illustrating how Newton changed our view of the world to one determined by mathematical laws. The sculpture makes the body resemble a mechanical object, joined with bolts at the shoulders, elbows, knees and ankles. The sculptures shows the visible seams of Paolozzi's technique of dividing his model and reassembling the pieces, for example on the head.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRozak: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBlake's effort was to redesign the mindscape of an alienated culture, to return his society to spiritual realities that had vanished from its consciousness. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIlya Prigogine's Order out of Chaos:\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-01-29_at_12.46.37_PM.jpg?v=1769712417\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwofold vision is the ability to see an unfallen world as well as a fallen one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlake's many-eyed seraphs:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/William_Blake_Ezekiel_s_Vision_ca_1803-5_Boston_Museum.jpg?v=1769711019\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mw-page-title-main\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"firstHeading mw-first-heading\" id=\"firstHeading\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mw-page-title-main\"\u003eArgus Panoptes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mw-page-title-main\"\u003e\"Mercury, Argus and Io\" by Bernardino Pinturicchio, 1492\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mw-page-title-main\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Pinturicchio___Io__Argus_and_Mercury.jpg?v=1769712516\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mw-page-title-main\"\u003eArgus or Argos Panoptes (Ancient Greek: Ἄργος Πανόπτης, \"All-seeing Argos\") is a \u003cstrong\u003emany-eyed giant\u003c\/strong\u003e in Greek mythology. Known for his perpetual vigilance, he served the goddess Hera as a watchman. His most famous task was guarding Io, a priestess of Hera, whom Zeus had transformed into a heifer. Argus's constant watch, with some of his eyes always open, made him a formidable guardian.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mw-page-title-main\"\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eAnd set a watcher upon her, great and strong Argus, who with four eyes looks every way. And the goddess stirred in him unwearying strength: sleep never fell upon his eyes; but he kept sure watch always.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mw-page-title-main\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Abraham_Bloemaert_-_Mercury__Argus_and_Io_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg?v=1769712890\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mw-page-title-main\"\u003eAccording to Ovid, Argus had a hundred eyes. Hera had Argus' hundred eyes preserved forever in a peacock's tail so as to immortalise her faithful watchman. In another version, Hera transformed the whole of Argus into a peacock.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mw-page-title-main\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-01-29_at_12.56.46_PM.jpg?v=1769713018\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mw-page-title-main\"\u003e Hera's defining task for Argus was to guard the white heifer Io from Zeus, who was attracted to her, keeping her chained to the sacred olive tree at the Argive Heraion. She required someone who had at least a hundred eyes spread out, always watching in all directions, someone who would stay awake despite being asleep. Argos was meant to be the perfect guardian.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mw-page-title-main\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Mercurio_addormenta_Argo_suonando_il_flauto_-_Van_Somer.jpg?v=1769712972\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mw-page-title-main\"\u003eShe charged him to \"Tether this cow safely to an olive-tree at Nemea\". Hera knew that the heifer was in reality Io, one of the many nymphs Zeus was coupling with to establish a new order. To free Io, Zeus had Argus slain by Hermes. The messenger of the Olympian gods, disguised as a shepherd, first put all of Argus' eyes asleep with spoken charms, then slew him. Some versions say that Hermes used his wand to close Argus' eyes permanently, while other versions say that Hermes simply hurled a stone at Argus. Either way, Argus' death was the first stain of bloodshed among the new generation of gods.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mw-page-title-main\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Mercury_Killing_Argus_LACMA_65.37.94.jpg?v=1769712906\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"firstHeading mw-first-heading\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mw-page-title-main\"\u003eCooL: Argus Panoptes is referenced in the scientific names of at least eight animals, each of which bears a pattern of eye spots: reptiles Cnemaspis argus, Eremias argus, Sibon argus, Sphaerodactylus argus, and the Argus monitor Varanus panoptes; the pheasant Argusianus argus; the fish Cephalopholis argus and the cowry Arestorides argus.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"firstHeading mw-first-heading\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mw-page-title-main\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-01-29_at_1.10.35_PM.jpg?v=1769713846\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"firstHeading mw-first-heading\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mw-page-title-main\"\u003eUmberto Eco's The Form of Disorder:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mw-page-title-main\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-01-29_at_1.00.44_PM.jpg?v=1769713277\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEco’s text “La forma del disordine” closed the 1962 annual issue of Almanacco Bompiani, dedicated to the application of computers to “moral sciences and literature,” as specified by the issue’s title. Eco’s contribution addressed the impact of information science and computer programming on the art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEco Translated by Britt Eversole:\u003cbr\u003e\"Enter into this finite and limitless space curve. And now try to look away, to rest your gaze on a single detail. You will no longer succeed; you will be swept into the dance of the provisional and the relative; you will accumulate information that does not correlate\u003cbr\u003eto a singular meaning but to the totality of possible meanings; you will not receive a message but the possibility of many co-present messages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd you will no longer find reassuring coordinates that show you the high and the low, the right and the left. The cosmos explodes, expands, expands . . . and where will it come to an end?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe observer of the renaissance perspective was a good Cyclops who put his only eye up to the slot of a magic box in which he saw the world from the only point of view possible. The man of Munari is forced to have a thousand eyes on the nose, the neck, the shoulders, the fingers and the buttocks. And thus he turns restless in a world that bombards him with stimuli assaulting him from all sides.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough the programmatic wisdom of the exact sciences an unquiet dweller of an expanding universe reveals himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI am not saying that this is a beautiful history. It is History.\u003c\/strong\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"many-eyed\" images from the essay in the Almanacco Bompiani:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mw-page-title-main\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-01-29_at_1.00.53_PM.jpg?v=1769713277\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mw-page-title-main\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-01-29_at_1.06.20_PM.jpg?v=1769713603\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mw-page-title-main\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-01-29_at_1.05.55_PM.jpg?v=1769713603\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDragonfly-Eye: Online Library \u0026amp; Image Bank = https:\/\/www.dragonfly-eye.online\/\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_10.31.23_AM.jpg?v=1764865895\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A reading is prepared with a planetarium projection of material that makes up a learning situation. Words are brought to images, and images to words by counter-statements. A dialogical reading allows for meaningful encounters, engaging a participatory, everyday conception of knowledge attempting to relate texts to more aspects of experience.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_10.33.35_AM.jpg?v=1764866032\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-12-04_at_10.29.27_AM.jpg?v=1764865789\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Cell, 1958:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/2698465756_966519fac0_o.jpg?v=1764867304\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDieter Rot stamp language:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/12.jpg?v=1764865894\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang\" id=\"p-lang-btn\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Now-Time","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":56019155419304,"sku":"opv1789814913120","price":25.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":56019155452072,"sku":"lju1789814913121","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":56019155484840,"sku":"aym1789814913122","price":26.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":56019155517608,"sku":"mqb1789814913123","price":31.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XXL","offer_id":56019155550376,"sku":"zwd1789814913124","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/9084\/5096\/files\/many-eyed_1.gif?v=1789814919"},{"product_id":"wings-of-desire","title":"Wings of Desire","description":"\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(195, 195, 195);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease allow 10 working days to process before shipping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGarment Dyed - 6.5oz Black Short Sleeve\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eMade in USA - 100% USA Cotton\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" height=\"88\" width=\"349\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/sizechart.png?v=1746031678\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(91, 200, 139);\"\u003eCorresponding Klew: K-11 “What is it, Identity”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(91, 200, 139);\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cimg style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-08-28_at_7.43.31_PM.jpg?v=1758764285\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDamiel:\u003c\/strong\u003e It's great to live by the spirit, to testify day what's spiritual in people's minds. by day for eternity, only But sometimes I'm with fed up my I'd spiritual existence. Instead of forever hovering above like to feel a weight grow in me to end the infinity and to tie me to earth. I'd like, at each step, each gust of wind, to be able to say \"Now.\" Now and now\" and no longer \"forever\" and \"for eternity.\" To sit at an empty place at a card table and be greeted, even by a nod.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-13_at_6.10.14_PM.jpg?v=1758763640\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eI know now, what no Angel knows\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-08-18_at_10.30.29_PM.png?v=1758764080\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDamiel:\u003c\/strong\u003e First, I'll have a bath. Then I'll be shaved by a Turkish barber who will massage me down to the fingertips. Then I'll buy a newspaper and read it from headlines to horoscope. On the first day, I'll be waited upon... For requests, ask the neighbor. If someone stumbles over my legs, he'll have to apologize. I'll be pushed around, and I'll push back. In the crowded bar, the bartender will find me a table. A service car will stop, and the mayor will take me aboard. I'll be known to everyone, and suspect to no one. I won't say a word, and will understand every language. That will be my first day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3LsUFzuTeS4?si=IRvjvtWFOCtNY-Mg\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eꜛIn the Library scene, A voice is overheard reading the following passage from an edition of Walter Benjamin: Walter Benjamin bought Paul Klee’s watercolor, Angelus Novus, in 1921. Until his flight from Paris in June 1940, it hung in his various workrooms. In his last writing, “Theses on the Philosophy of History” (1940), he interpreted the picture as an allegory of a look back over history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ePaul Klee, Forgetful Angel, 1939 ↓\u003cimg style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Paul_Klee___vergesslicher_Engel___1939.jpg?v=1758764156\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Dying Man comforted by Damiel, helping him remember the things that are worth living for:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Far East. The Great North. The Wild West. The Great Bear Lake. Tristan da Cunha. The Mississippi Delta. Stromboli. The old houses of Charlottenburg. Albert Camus. The morning light. The child's eyes. The swim in the waterfall. The spots of the first drops of rain. The sun. The bread and wine. Hopping. Easter. The veins of leaves. The blowing grass. The color of stones. The pebbles on the stream's bed. The white tablecloth outdoors. The dream of the house in the house. The dear one asleep in the next room. The peaceful Sundays. The horizon. The light from the room in the garden. The night flight. Riding bicycle with no hands. The beautiful stranger. My father. My mother. My wife. My child.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3bZXO_xmnJc?si=d6ShxdWVXD-UWmvs\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-08-18_at_9.10.22_PM.png?v=1758763818\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-08-28_at_3.11.25_PM.jpg?v=1758763674\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/185770864295.jpg?v=1758764846\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-09-24_at_8.36.41_PM.jpg?v=1758764233\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-08-28_at_3.10.30_PM.jpg?v=1758763716\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-08-18_at_8.53.20_PM.png?v=1758763862\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Notebooks-on-Cities-and-Clothes-Vintage-Movie-Poster-Original_fb7f3372.jpg?v=1758763688\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eWim Wenders: “If we can improve the images of the world, perhaps we can improve the world.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-08-28_at_3.09.44_PM.jpg?v=1758763703\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Now-Time","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":56019155583144,"sku":"yyg1789814910992","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":56019155615912,"sku":"heh1789814910993","price":30.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":56019155648680,"sku":"rsk1789814910994","price":30.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":56019155681448,"sku":"jyw1789814910995","price":28.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XXL","offer_id":56019155714216,"sku":"rke1789814910996","price":24.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/9084\/5096\/files\/wings-of-desire_1.gif?v=1789814919"},{"product_id":"johnson-cravan-gemini","title":"Johnson-Cravan Gemini","description":"\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease allow 16 working days to process before shipping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e6.5oz Mushroom Short Sleeve\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eMade in USA - 100% USA Cotton\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 86, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/sizechart.png?v=1746031678\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"90\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA.D. Reader Pt 2. - p66-69\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-26_at_12.34.07_PM.jpg?v=1774546472\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\"In his youth, Jean-Paul Sartre was a scrappy muscular amateur boxer who took pride in his skill and toughness. He was fascinated by boxing during its 'golden age' in the 1920s and 1930s, the epochs of Jack Dempsey and Joe Louis. And this was not irrelevant to his philosophy. I\u003cstrong\u003en his later Critique of Dialectical Reason, he dedicates approximately thirty pages to the subject of boxing.\u003c\/strong\u003e There Sartre suggests to philosophers that they approach any historical (class) conflict in the same way that an intelligent, knowledgeable spectator views boxing: as a single event with two fighters, two *subjective systems' of perception and practice, each of whom may be: (a) conditioned by techniques and bound by normativity, (b) trapped in 'degrading' subjective process of transcended transcendences, and (c) striving unsuccessfully to overcome socio-economic alienation and self-defeatingly undertaking the 'deterioration' of its own praxis. This approach to the 'sweet science' has several intriguing ramifications for both philosophy itself and Sartre's work in particular.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-26_at_9.41.06_AM.jpg?v=1774546347\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"First, Sartre is the only renowned philosopher to approach the significance of fighting as something other than either a social problem (Hobbes) or a scarcely understood instance of anonymous violence (Hegel, Nietzsche). Sartre is unique in perceiving that fighting is as important for understanding the human condition as, for example, artistic creativity and appreciation, charitable giving and romantic loving have been.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSecond, his knowledge of the sport and his experience in the ring inform a phenomenological perspective that makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of fighting. In many respects, Sartre understands how the sport of boxing 'incarnates' certain elements of the violent socio-economic struggles by which history is intelligible. Unlike boxing journalists, he does not merely present the psychology of the fighter or the cultural significance of the fight event. Phenomenologically, he sketches (albeit a little crudely, I argue) the fight from the perspectives of the life-worlds of the fighter and the audience alike; and, praxiologically, he links (inadequately, I argue) these perspectives to socio-economic forces (classes, social practices, the business' of boxing) that may produce the fight-event. In principle, his view of the praxiological significance of boxing is not fully intelligible without his detailed phenomenology of the lived experiences of boxing, even if the link between the two is problematic. Third, the manner in which he presents boxing illustrates the transition from his earlier 'existential-phenomenological approach to his later Marxian orientation in the Critique of Dialectical Reason. Whatever one may think of the notion that the Sartre of the Critique was striving to turn his back on his earlier *existentialism', his work in Being and Nothingness develops an intriguing phenomenology that serves as the foundation of his 'dialectical' appropriation of historical conflict generally.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In the \u003cem\u003eCritique\u003c\/em\u003e, Sartre writes: \u003cstrong\u003e'antagonistic reciprocity is a bond of immanence between epicenters\u003c\/strong\u003e, since each adversary totalizes and transcends the totalizing actions of the other.\" From : \u003cspan\u003e Sartre on the Phenomenon and Praxis of Boxing\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-21_at_9.46.35_PM_8a957d62-0ebd-4042-9b56-2076422c4381.png?v=1774548746\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSartre:\u003cbr\u003eThere are, in fact, two ways of watching a boxing match, and two alone. The inexpert spectator will choose : favourite and adopt his point of view; in other words, he will consider him as the subject of the fight, the other being merely a dangerous object. This is tantamount to making the duel into a hazardous but solitary activity and to totalizing the struggle with just one of the contestants. Enthusiasts or experts, for their part, are capable of passing successively and very rapidly from one system to the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey appreciate the blows and parries, but even should they succeed in changing system instantaneously do not totalize the two opposed totalizations. To be sure, they do give to the fight a real unity: as they leave they say 'It was a good fight . . . etc'. But this unity is imposed from outside upon an event. In fact, in so far as boxing is sport, a job (related to other jobs manager, trainers, seconds, referees, etc.) and a spectacle which corresponds to certain requirements of certain society-in so far as, within the framework of a certain economy, you can organize a bout and reckon on it drawing numerous spectators this bout itself, as an objective to be attained (with all the operations you may imagine, from the signature of the contract to the renting of the hall and the publicity), becomes an object. And it is likewise as a particular object- as an event that interests or thrills and will actually take place in real and limited time; as a certain opportunity to see this or that boxer in action, etc.-that the spectators will go to see the fight. In particular, they will make it the aim of sometimes difficult undertakings (booking seats for a championship bout, etc.), and in some cases the means to bring off other undertakings (betting on one of the contestants, earning money by managing a team of boxers, etc.). An object for individuals, groups and collectives- defined as a totality by language, the press and the organs of information; then later designated (in the past) as a unity in its past-being by memory ('It was the day of the Carpentier-Dempsey fight?): the bout, in itself, appears as one of those mathematical symbols which designate an ensemble of operations to be carried out, and figure as such in the series of algebraic equivalences without the mathematician's ever actually troubling to carry out the indicated operations. It is an object to be constituted, utilized, contemplated, designated. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDCR Pt 2. Glossary:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-26_at_12.36.15_PM.jpg?v=1774546586\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Bellows, A Knockout, 1921:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-15_at_10.33.44_PM.png?v=1774546683\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-15_at_10.34.04_PM.png?v=1774546753\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJack Johnson—Arthur Cravan Fight, 1916:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/index_5d7a14b5-a701-48fc-b7e9-07e4b1ad7e47.jpg?v=1774547131\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003eJohnson and Cravan were more collaborators than competitors\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCravan:\u003cbr\u003eBorn Fabian Lloyd in 1887 in the gentile Swiss town of Lausanne, beside Lake Geneva, Arthur Cravan carried a British passport yet preferred to speak French. A human chameleon, he never identified with any place in particular, and often masqueraded behind forged papers, claiming all the while to be Oscar Wilde’s nephew. (As the son of the notorious scribe’s brother-in-law, this was one piece of bombast actually true.) At two meters and 120 kilos, Cravan was built like the Eiffel Tower and for a brief period even held the European heavyweight title. In 1916, he fought ex-world champion Jack Johnson in Barcelona, in a rigged fight, a spectacular ploy to earn a broke Cravan—and a spent Johnson—sufficient steerage to New York, where the boxer-poet-cum-conscientious objector could avoid military service. Cravan tumbled in the sixth round, amid a delirious and suspecting crowd, simultaneously chanting and booing when he didn’t get up. A riot ensued; Cravan slipped out a side exit and soon set sail on the Montserrat across a storm-tossed ocean, alongside a motley crew of deserters, adventurers and dissidents, as well as a certain Leon Trotsky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLittle wonder Cravan bequeathed an oeuvre slender and never fully realized. He never let himself realize it, of course, and that, to my mind, made his oeuvre worth reading all the more. He was a latter-day Rimbaud eloping to Africa, sailing a drunken boat down an unknown backwater, never to write again; he was a prototypical Dean Moriarty, blasting at breakneck speed on the road, across North and South America, throughout Europe, up and down, back and forth, in dusty forgotten texts. Cravan was the dialectical spirit incarnate: like Turgenev’s Bazarov, Dostoevsky’s underground man, Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus, and the Hegel of Phenomenology of Mind, Cravan \"looked the negative in the face and lived with it.\" This is probably the sense in which surrealist kingpin André Breton once claimed Cravan’s actions \"develop in an atmosphere of absolute irreverence, of provocation and scandal that herald ‘Dada’.\" Cravan had \"accomplished,\" Breton said, \"without compromise, Rimbaud’s desire ‘to be absolutely modern.’\" BR\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/jack-johnson-poster1916.jpg?v=1774547382\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParis Review article:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Amid the craze for brutal novelty, boxing became a sensation. Though originally based on Victorian aristocratic ideals, it was championed by the modernists of Montmartre as an embodiment of the new century. It was also regarded as a fundamentally American pastime, a visceral, primal, and demotic endeavor redolent of the popular culture that was beginning to excite the world beyond the United States. When Jack Johnson fled racially motivated prosecution in the U.S. in 1913, he arrived in Paris to a hero’s welcome. After he’d beaten Jim Jeffries to become the first black heavyweight champion of the world in 1910, he’d been tarred as a threat to social order back home. A film of the fight had been a hit in France but was banned in America for fear that images of a black man schooling a white man in the ring would cause grave insult and incite sedition. In Paris, African American athletes and entertainers were in vogue, and Johnson gained celebrity status, mixing in nightclubs of Montparnasse and performing sell-out shows that combined pugilism displays with dancing and singing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the time Johnson arrived in Paris, Cravan had carved out a reputation as a boxer himself, a discipline he first picked up while traveling across the USA. He was also known as an ardent proponent of the “American” attitude toward life, by which he meant living according to desire and instinct, and telling so-called civilized society to take a running jump. In an essay titled “To Be or Not To Be … American,” he wrote that, thanks to the influence of cakewalk dancers, track athletes, and boxers such as Joe Jeanette, the whole of Paris had turned American. “Overnight,” Cravan said, “everyone began to spit and swear” and “floated around in clothes two sizes too big for them.” He finished the piece with a crib sheet for how to pass as American: “Chew … never speak … always look busy … and, above all else, crown yourself with arrogance.” It was advice he followed assiduously.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-07_at_7.02.51_PM.jpg?v=1774548151\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis spindly legs excepted, Cravan looked every inch the serious athlete: six foot four, a lean two hundred and thirty pounds, muscular and broad shouldered. It’s difficult at this remove to judge his mastery of the sport, but he unquestionably excelled in other parts of the boxer’s skill set: the swagger, the hype, and the trash talk. On entering the ring, Cravan acted as his own hype man, bragging about his brilliance and achievements, announcing himself as, among other things, “a hotel thief, snake charmer,” and nephew of Oscar Wilde. He did not mention, but was surely aware of, the irony that the man behind Wilde’s scandalous downfall was the Marquees of Queensbury, the same man after whom the rules of boxing are named.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCravan found a place for boxing and braggadocio outside the ring too. Perhaps inspired by Jack Johnson’s performances, he held events that combined dancing, boxing, and lectures on modern art. But whereas Johnson had inserted boxing into a stage show, Cravan essentially did the opposite, turning his fights into something between a pantomime and a bracing piece of performance art, intended to make the audience as uncomfortable as possible. He advertised one performance promising it would climax with his suicide, only to profanely rebuke those who packed the venue for being so depraved that they would pay to watch a man take his own life. A newspaper report of another show says he “fired several shots into the air, then, half in jest, half seriously, made the most insane pronouncements against art and life. He praised athletes above artists, he praised homosexuals, those who rob the Louvre … Things almost went too far, however, when Cravan threw his briefcase into the audience. It was only by accident that no one was hit.\" More\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Arthur Cravan, the the 'poet with the shortest hair in the world,' founder and sole editor of the journal Maintenant (five explosive issues), boxer, anarchist , lecturer, dancer, adventurer, handsome, insulting, direct, secretive, traveler, deserter. He haunted the rebellious imaginations of André Breton and Guy Debord.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Cravan was the dialectical spirit incarnate\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Art was \"more in the guts than in the brain,\" he said\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-07_at_6.40.58_PM.jpg?v=1774548241\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 1911-1915 Cravan published Maintenant, a literary review that lasted for only five issues but had enormous influence upon the young artists and intellectuals who had come together in Paris and were on the cusp of changing the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbsurdity, the ridiculous, the eccentric, the striking, the outrageous, and the shocking  were Cravan's bread and butter. His identity was whatever he decided it would be; long before Madonna made self-invention and re-invention standard operating procedure, Cravan practiced it with a vengeance. It is no wonder, then, that Cravan became the darling of Dadaists Marcel Duchamps, Andre Breton, and Francis Picabia.\"  More\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-26_at_1.03.22_PM.jpg?v=1774548212\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGuy Debord: \u003cbr\u003e\"Arthur Cravan foresaw this world when he wrote in Maintenant: 'Soon we will only see artists in the streets, and it will take no end of effort to find. single man.' This is indeed the sense of the revived form of an old quip of Parisian loafers: 'Hello there, artists! Too bad if I've got it wrong.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-26_at_1.10.24_PM.jpg?v=1774548637\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e This fight was in a way the first  \"happening\", the first \"performance\" in the history of art.\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTHE FIGHT:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSunday, April 23, 1916. In the most intellectual circles of Barcelona, there was no another topic of conversation than the third centenary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuijote’s\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e author. But the matter of the day was the combat of boxing between Jack Jonson and Arthur Cravan.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe filmmaker Ricard de Baños had arranged strategically to six «routiers» with their cameras at different points of the Monumental to film the big fight. Everything was ready, when the sky began to fill with clouds. Ramón, Ricard’s small brother and experienced operator, warned that if they were late in beginning the Jonson-Cravan combat they were registering the movie in very low conditions of light, which could throw to loose all the work. Ricard commented to Jack. Finished the fourth assault with Rhodes, Kid feigned not to be able to keep on fighting. Other «introductory» duels announced in the program, Munich-Seem and Martínez-Cutchet, remained deferred and, before the awaited thing, Jack Johnson and Arthur Cravan jumped to the ring.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fans were glad, but his hopes of seeing a great fight did not last long. The boxer poet, with white trousers and short bathrobe of the same color, trod on the canvas very palely. Meanwhile the gloves were placing him, was necessary to sit in his corner because him the legs were trembling. His brother Otho tried to infuse encouragement from the corner, but Arthur was very afraid. Shortly before entering the ring, Johnson had threatened that he would beat him up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e«Don Jack» spent the strings with his eternal smile, wearing a striped coat and pants darker than the color of their skin. The American boxer was disappointed by the scarce entry. However, concealed and distributed smiles generously. Before the Chilean Tony Berton, doing the functions of referee, announced the beginning of the fight, the chief Bravo Portillo presented himself in the ring to remind participants that they could not overextend their attacks. The authorities ordered that the expected clash of the titans had just as a simple exhibition by decree law.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fight was a complete failure. Gripped by fear, Arthur Cravan barely managed to move the site: unthinkable that an attack could in conditions against his rival. Johnson realized that they were offering to sorry sight, but have wanted to give swindle to Ricard could register the movie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003eSeeing Stars\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlessandro Piccolomini, Star Map of Gemini, 1566\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-21_at_9.46.03_PM.png?v=1774546242\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Bayer designation is a stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek or Latin letter followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name:\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-03-21_at_9.34.51_PM.png?v=1774546305\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePollox and Castor, the Gemini Twins. 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