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Banksy Fans Interact with His Clever NYC Street Art alice, mymodernmet.com

While the ever-elusive street artist Banksy con­tin­ues to put up his clever works all over New York, his fans have been flock­ing to them, snap­ping pic­tures of the price­less pieces before they're gone (or defaced). Some have even put their own…

Banksy/NY

"...a corrected version of history helps the people better understand themselves. Americans, Mexicans, the fusion of the two, in addition to people of the world, would recognize a better sense of their true identity & culture. The exploration of such history can perhaps allow for analysis of current rates of depression, crime/incarceration, and socioeconomic status(es). If we, the people, want to understand ourselves, we need to know the truth".

The following is a summary & analysis of Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review article, “Law of the Noose: A History of Latino Lynching” Richard Delgado.

SUMMARY

Delgado attempts to shed light on a largely unknown history of Latinos, particularly Mexican-Americans in the Southwest...

The Diffusion of Useful Ignorance – Thoreau on the hubris of our knowledge, and the transcendent humility of not-knowing. 

Complement with astrophysicist Marcelo Gleiser on living with mystery in the age of knowledge. 

Pack Pack

It's all on TV. So handling the cold metal, feeling it next to his skin that first time: it was easy. And when things come to you easily, when things click effortlessly into place, it is so tempting to use the four-letter F-word. Fate.

Zadie Smith 'White Teeth'

But most intensely love for that other thing, the sound-absorbent screen, life’s white machine, shadows massing in the middle distance, although that’s not even close, the texture of et cetera itself

Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station

I'm lost so I'm cruel...

Imagination may lead us along a path of dreams and associations, transforming our thoughts in response to some perception; or it may focus on the presented object, transforming our perception in response to our thoughts. Just where wine is situated between these two exercises of our imaginative powers is one of the deep questions that all winos must ask, if they are to understand their dear companion. Is wine like daydreams or like art? Does it point inwards to our subjective impressions and memories, or outwards to the world – bringing order as Tintoretto, Wordsworth or Mozart brought order, by reshaping the objects of our perception?

R. Scruton, I drink, therefore I am

Música! Muy peculiar...

I really do think with my pen, for my head often knows nothing of what my hand is writing.

Wittgenstein Culture and Value