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- L.M. 9-17-2008 5:45 am [link] [add a comment]




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(found: Torres Loop)

- L.M. 9-16-2008 7:22 am [link] [add a comment]



Who's better: humans or animals?
(excerpts from readings for school)
The animals other than man live by appearances and memories, and have but little of connected experience; but the human race lives also by art and reasonings. Now from memory experience is produced in men; for the several memories of the same thing produce finally the capacity for a single experience. - Artistotle

We presuppose labour in a form that stamps it as exclusively human. A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality. - Marx & Engels

Men can be distinguished from animals by consciousness, by religion or anything else you like. They themselves begin to distinguish themselves from animals as soon as they begin to produce their means of subsistence, a step which is conditioned by their physical organisation. - Marx & Engels

No single trait, not even tool-making, is sufficient to identify man. What is specially and uniquely human is man's capacity to combine a wide variety of animal propensities into an emergent cultural entity: a human personality. - Lewis Mumford

It is highly unlikely that we, who can know, determine, and define the natural essences of all things surrounding us, which we are not, should ever be able to do the same for ourselves — this would be like jumping over our own shadows. Moreover, nothing entitles us to assume that man has a nature or essence in the same sense as other things. In other words, if we have a nature or essence, then surely only a god could know and define it, and the first prerequisite would be that he be able to speak about a "who" as though it where a "what." - Hannah Arendt

- sally mckay 9-15-2008 3:44 pm [link] [17 comments]



Sunday Devotionals - Wichita Lineman




OC Smith, Glen Campbell, The Dels and Danny Chilean


- L.M. 9-14-2008 6:50 am [link] [15 comments]



Jeannie Thib - Schema at Leo Kamen Gallery Suite 406, 80 Spadina Ave, Toronto

Opening: Saturday, September 13th, 2-5pm, runs to Oct. 12
Canadian Art Gallery Hop talk with Micah Lexier Saturday, September 20th, 2:30pm

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Inlet 2008 acrylic multiple - 11" x 36"

- L.M. 9-13-2008 6:34 am [link] [add a comment]



Michael Maranda - Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard: Livre at Art Metropole, 788 King Street West 2nd Floor, Toronto

Book Launch: Saturday Sept. 13, 2008 1-3 pm


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- L.M. 9-12-2008 6:49 pm [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]