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openlyandfreely · 4 years

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Who Is a Continental Philosopher? 5 APRIL 2011 / DAVID AUERBACH / 1 COMMENT In the debate over continental philosophy a few posts back, there was some question as to which philosophers fell under the rubric of continental philosophy. In the eyes of many observers, indeed, a certain strain of French thought has come to stand for the entire field. Both positive and negative attention have been focused around Derrida, Lacan, Foucault, etc., to the exclusion of many, many others. So I was glancing through the Blackwell Companion to Continental Philosophy (1998) on Google Books tonight, edited by Levinas evangelist and Leiter nemesis Simon Critchley. Even Critchley and co-editor William Schroeder relegate that French strain to just one corner of a large tradition, and most of the names are far less contentious. Rather than trying to answer what continental philosophy is, I think it’s better just to look at these names to get a sense of what the field encompasses. Part I: The Kantian Legacy:. 1. The Context and Problematic of Post Kantian Philosophy: Frederick C. Beiser (University of Indiana, Bloomington). 2. Kant: Robert B. Pippin (University of Chicago). 3. Fichte: Ludwig Siep (Universitat Munster). 4. Early German Romanticism: Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis: Ernst Behler (University of Washington, Seattle). 5. Schelling: Jean Francois Courtine (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris). 6. Hegel: Stephen Houlgate (University of Warwick). Part II: Overturning The Tradition: . 7. Feuerbach and the Young Hegelians: Lawrence S. Stepelevich (Villanova University). 8. Marx: Michel Henry (University of Montpellier III). 9. Kierkegaard: Merold Westphal (Fordham University). 10. Schopenhauer: Robert Rethy (Xavier University). 11. Nietzsche: Charles E. Scott (Pennsylvania State University). 12. Freud: John Deigh (Northwestern University). 13. Bergson: Pete A. Y. Gunter (North Texas State University). Part III: The Phenomenological Breakthrough:. 14. Neo Kantianism: Steven Galt Crowell (Rice University). 15. Husserl: Rudolf Bernet (Louvain Catholic University). 16. Scheler: Manfred S. Frings (The Max Scheler Archives, Des Plaimes). 17. Jaspers: Kurt Salamun (University of Graz). 18. Heidegger: John D. Caputo (Villanova University). Part IV: Phenomenology, Hegelianism and Anti Hegelianism in France:. 19. Kojeve: Stanley Rosen (Boston University). 20. Levinas: Hent De Vries (University of Amsterdam). 21. Sartre: Thomas R. Flynn (Emory University). 22. De Beauvoir: Kate Fullbrook (University of the West of England) and Edward Fullbrook (freelance writer). 23. Merleau Ponty: Bernhard Waldenfelds (Ruhr Universitat Bochum). 24. Bataille: Robert Sasso (University of Nice). 25. Blanchot: Paul Davies (University of Sussex). Part V: Religion Without The Limits of Reason:. 26. Franz Rosenzweig: Paul Mendes Flohr (Hebrew University). 27. Martin Buber: Maurice Friedman (San Diego State University). 28. Marcel: Philip Stratton Lake (Keele University). Part VI: Three Generations of Critical Theory:. 29. Benjamin: Rebecca Comay (University of Toronto). 30. Horkheimer: Gunzelin Schmidt Noerr (Frankfurt am Main). 31. Adorno: Hauke Brunkhorst (Frankfurt am Main). 32. Bloch: Hans Dieter Bahr (University of Vienna). 33. Marcuse: Douglas Kellner (University of Texas at Austin). 34. Habermas: Thomas McCarthy (Northwestern University). 35. Third Generation Critical Theory: Max Pensky. (SUNY, Binghampton). Part VII: Hermeneutics:. 36. Schleiermacher: Ben Vedder (University of Tilburg). 37. Dilthey: Rudolf A. Makkreel (Emory University). 38. Gadamer: Dennis J. Schmidt (Villanova University). 39. Ricoeur: Richard Kearney (University College, Dublin). Part VIII: Continental Political Philosophy:. 40. Lukacs: Gyorgy Markus (University of Sydney). 41. Gramsci: Ernesto Laclau (University of Essex). 42. Schmitt: G. L. Ulmen (Telos Press Ltd). 43. Arendt: Robert Bernasconi (Memphis State University). 44. Lefort: Bernard Flynn (Empire State College, SUNY). 45. Castoriadis: Fabio Ciaramelli (University of Naples). Part IX: Structuralism and After: 46. Levi-Strauss: Marcel Henaff (UCSD, California). 47. Lacan: William J. Richardson (Boston College). 48. Althusser: Jacques Ranciere (University of Paris VIII). 49. Foucault: Paul Patton (University of Sydney). 50. Derrida: Geoffrey Bennington (University of Sussex). 51. Deleuze: Brian Massumi (McGill University). 52. Lyotard: Jacob Rogozinski (University of Paris VIII). 53. Baudrillard: Mike Gane (Loughborough University). 54. Irigaray: Tina Chanter (Memphis State University). 55. Kristeva: Kelly Oliver (University of Texas at Austin). 56. Le Doeuff: Moira Gatens (University of Sydney). A reasonable list. It definitely has a French bias, but it’s not too bad. If compiled today, it would probably include Agamben, Badiou, and Negri too. The unforgivable omission is Ernst Cassirer, who is only mentioned twice in the Neo-Kantianism article and once in passing by Beiser (whose work I very much like). Schlegel, Schiller, Saussure, Bourdieu, and Barthes also seem rather important. Given the inclusion of a bunch of cultural and sociological thinkers, sociologists Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Georg Simmel should definitely be on this list. Other worthy omissions: Humboldt, Brentano, Croce, Mauss, Lowith, Valery, Fanon, Bachelard, Blumenberg, Apel, Eco, Bouveresse, and Virilio. (Not that I like all of them.)

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tessa-quayle · 5 years

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full text: 2019 Telegraph piece

check out the pictures here from @ralph-n-fiennes

the article by Hermione Eyre (official link - registration required for a free trial)

Ralph Fiennes does Ralph Fiennes so well. During our interview he delivers everything one might hope for: sensitive introspection, charm, pathos, a touch of mystery and even a (partial) defence of late Soviet Russia. ‘A lot of people didn’t experience it as repressive…’

This in the context of the stunning new film he has directed, called The White Crow, about the defection of Rudolf Nureyev from the Soviet Union in 1961. Oh, and he also impersonates a horse for me. Beautiful whinny. Sensitive nostrils.

‘It’s how I feel as the house lights go down and I can feel the expectation from the audience. You can see it in horses before a race.’

As we begin, in a Shoreditch loft studio not far from his home, he seems professorial, in a woolly cardigan, neatly arranging his spectacles, notebook and copy of the latest London Review of Books. When he is ready he gives me that trademark encouraging smile – half little boy, half crocodile.

Career-wise, he has it all. Family life, not so much. His greatest luxury? ‘My independence. I lead quite a solitary life.’ When I ask him if he’s a good uncle to his siblings’ progeny – Mercy, Titan and Hero, to name a few – he says flatly, ‘I could be better.’

His sister, the film-maker Sophie Fiennes, says her son Horace, now eight, really enjoyed the sword fighting in his Richard III, which is, if you think about it, a good outcome for a small boy going to see his uncle play Richard III.

His presence is a mark of quality in a film. Both the Bond and Harry Potter franchises, where he plays M and Voldemort respectively, brought him in for gravitas. Since Rada, he has run the gamut of Shakespeare, from Romeo in 1986 to his award-winning Antony & Cleopatra last year at the National, opposite Sophie Okonedo.

‘She was spectacular. I miss Antony. I found him very moving in his brokenness; his masculinity falling away and him trying to cling on to it. He’s male and middle-aged, and he keeps saying, “I’ve still got it, haven’t I? Haven’t I?”’

Does he recognise that? ‘I am 56 and I try to stay fitter’ – he does cardio and morning yoga – ‘but I can feel myself getting… old. Little shifts of energy and ambition, little impulses. You get tired more, you want to take it easy more.’ Then summoning mercurial energy in that actorly way, he explodes, ‘But I can feel myself fighting that, like, “I’m not gonna let go! Come on, come on. Yeah!” There are plenty of virile 56-year-old men.’

When I ask if he’s got a motorbike yet, like Ralph Richardson, he isn’t impressed. ‘No, my brother Joseph rides a motorbike. He can do fast cars and handle boats.’ Joseph, now 48, will for ever be the young Bard wooing Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love, just as Ralph single-handedly made Herodotus hot, that spring of 1997 when we all went to see The English Patient and wept.

Antony gives everything up for sex. ‘Yes, he does, that’s a very real erotic connection, and it’s very emasculating for him.’ Does sex make the world go round? ‘Erm, sex produces more human beings, mostly.’ Nice deflection.

Fiennes married Alex Kingston, his great love from Rada, in 1993. Their marriage ended when he left her in 1995 for the actor who was playing Gertrude to his Hamlet, Francesca Annis, 17 years older than him. Although the relationship broke down in early 2006 amid reports of his alleged infidelity, they still talk, have a deep, mutual professional respect and go to each other’s first nights.

Kingston has since gone on to have a daughter, Salome, with her second husband and Annis already had three children; Fiennes has never wanted his own family. ‘Never say never,’ he demurs. ‘But I don’t feel that’s imminent at all. I love the family and community of plays or the cast and crew of a film.’

He recollects his lines from Man and Superman, the Bernard Shaw play, ‘where Jack Tanner [whom he played] rather brilliantly pours scorn on the idea of happiness: “No family, no marriage, spread your seed, but no marriage!” I love the mischief in that.’

He says, ‘I am the eldest of six,’ as if it explains everything. The Fiennes children were born within seven years. Martha and Sophie make films; Magnus is a composer; Joseph is an actor and his twin Jacob is a gamekeeper in Norfolk. Their foster brother, Michael, now an archaeologist, came to live with them when he was 11, Ralph was two and their mother Jini was only 24.

‘My wonderful parents [Mark Fiennes, a farmer, and Jini Lash, a writer] were pressured by tough financial situations and a very erratic income,’ says Fiennes quietly. ‘They were extraordinarily courageous in giving us love and a sense of home, but also a feeling, early on, of what it is to be a burden on your parents – somewhere I think that’s affected my choices.’

‘We experienced family life with bells on,’ says sister Sophie, who’s currently working on a new series of the brilliant Pervert’s Guide to… documentaries with philosopher Slavoj Zižek. ‘You have lived that and you don’t need to replicate it.’ She remembers that as a child Ralph ‘really liked getting away from us all and being alone’.

He adored his Pollock’s toy theatre and insisted his siblings formed an audience, ‘furious’ if they didn’t comply. He set up footlights in matchboxes. ‘It was magical, very Fanny and Alexander,’ says Sophie, referencing the Bergman paean to childhood.

Ralph always had ‘a love of practical jokes’, she remembers. When they lived by the sea, on the Sheep’s Head peninsula in Ireland, he stood on a rock at high tide and pretended to be drowning.

‘Gave our mother a fit.’ He also called their neighbour to say his wife had been changing a light bulb and was now hanging from the ceiling, twitching. ‘It was April Fool’s. Our neighbour was furious.’

As a young man Fiennes became, after Schindler’s List, the intellectual’s pin-up. Is ageing harder when you’ve been a heart-throb? ‘Look, there’s lots of heart-throbs out there. You see it in younger actors who are having their moment, there’s a new one and they’re written up, how beautiful they are… You see the waves and the breaks, that person had that moment, or that opportunity. There are a handful of actors and directors who stay [the course], but mostly it’s ups and downs.’ In other words, the challenge is to convert being a heart-throb into something more meaningful and lasting.

Such as directing. He directed himself in 2011’s Bafta-nominated Coriolanus with Vanessa Redgrave as his mother Volumnia; in 2013 he directed and appeared as a passion-struck Dickens opposite Felicity Jones in The Invisible Woman.

His latest is The White Crow, based on Julie Kavanagh’s biography of Nureyev. He spent months touring Russian ballet schools before finding Oleg Ivenko, a young unknown from the Tatar State Ballet company, who is devastatingly good as the dancer. Fiennes plays his mentor Pushkin.

I didn’t really want to be in it,’ he says. ‘But I felt this creeping pressure and although I had a cast of wonderful Russian actors and dancers, the Russian producer said to me, “If you want Russian investment then we need Western names, why aren’t you in it?”’

He will dig deep to make the films he wants to make: has he put his own money in? ‘I have done, yes.’ Would you again? ‘No! I’ve had to put money into all the films I’ve made. They don’t sparkle with commercial appeal.’ Did the money come back? ‘No.’ Harry Potter helps? ‘Definitely. I don’t regret doing it. I have the resources and I believe in the project. You get one life, so f— it.’

The script of The White Crow is by David Hare, who questions the view of Nureyev’s defection as a ‘leap to freedom’, showing instead a certain nostalgia for the Nikita Khrushchev era.

Hare and Fiennes spoke to friends of Nureyev from 1950s Leningrad, twin dancers Leonid and Liuba Romankov, now in their 80s, who appear in a lunch party scene alongside actors playing their younger selves. ‘Liuba said, “I felt free, I felt happy inside myself at that time.” Nureyev was so nurtured and nourished by the dance school.’

The film doesn’t have anything to say about the propaganda and food shortages. ‘If you say I should have laid out a history lesson of the regime, I say no, I think that would have been heavy-handed. I think an audience is smart. You see the ideological pressure of the regime and the constant surveillance Nureyev was under.’

Do you feel the Soviet approach to the arts got something right? ‘I do, because that was, as I understand it, the philosophy of “we’re all a group”, though of course the individual is stifled. I’ve always been moved by what I feel to be the dedication of the Russian arts ethos, the discipline, the intense seriousness with which people take it.’

His love of Russia began in his early 20s, with him performing Chekhov and reading Dostoyevsky; he is now fluent in Russian, has ‘a lingering fantasy of buying a flat in St Petersburg’ and has been presented to Putin. ‘At the St Petersburg International Cultural Forum, which they hold every year. He was very quiet and listening.’

This was before the Salisbury poisoning. Does Fiennes believe Russia was responsible? Briskly, ‘Yes, yes. It seems to me like it was. Clearly there are problematic things with the current regime to our eyes and I do feel it’s been a tricky time since Salisbury, and that’s a shame and sad.’ Oddly enough he knows the town well, having been to Bishop Wordsworth’s grammar school.

‘I had a mostly happy time there. It was an extraordinarily shocking, cack-handed event, unacceptable and wrong in every way. And in reaction the Brits have made things harder with visas and it becomes tit for tat, and the Russians have closed down the British Council, which was a wonderful enabler of cultural interaction. I don’t know if the British Council is a cover for espionage, maybe it is…’ Bond bells are ringing. But you’re M, you must know! He replies, curtly, ‘But I’m not M, am I?’

We return to the topic of growing older. ‘There are pluses to ageing, you know? You can let go of some shit. The competition falls away. You can see the cycles of your own mistakes, hopefully you’re learning… All the things that have caused you upset: I hurt that person, I got a bad review. You start to feel: did that really matter? The things you were so concerned about just drift away on the current of life. And your idealism is tempered and your vanity gets knocked…’

He brings up, as an example, the 2002 film he made with Jennifer Lopez called Maid in Manhattan, a comedy fairy tale in which he plays a US senatorial candidate who falls for his chambermaid. ‘I saw in the newspaper they had J Lo’s most successful films and’ – big smile – ‘Maid in Manhattan was there, and it came quite near the top’ – bigger smile – ‘and then I read: “Let down by the fact that Ralph Fiennes seems like a serial killer.” Ha ha ha! I had to laugh.

’Cos my vanity scrolled it and then… bam!’ He gives a proper belly laugh. Didn’t he get together with J Lo while they were filming? ‘No. No. I was set up by her manager and the producer. So a picture was taken of us saying goodnight after dinner and sold to the New York Post. It was a decoy, to take the focus away from the fact that she was going out with Ben Affleck.’ You didn’t mind? ‘I did, actually. I thought it was really crap.’ He shrugs, smiles. The things fame brings.

‘I give my agent all these neurotic phone calls, asking about reviews, who said this, who said that, but then, glass of wine, laugh it off.’

I feel I’ve had a flash of the blazing, naughty, fun side of Fiennes; we have known it’s there ever since we saw his suavely clownish Gustave in The Grand Budapest Hotel, and his irrepressible Harry in A Bigger Splash (complete with gyrating dance routine). There is a fun side to him, then? He smiles enigmatically as we say goodbye. ‘You won’t ever see that in an interview situation.’

#ralph fiennes #mixed feelings #appreciate his insight and humility #still feel like he struggles with interviews sometimes #or depending on the writer he's shown in an odd light #the 2016 gentleman journal's interview is probably still my favorite #the telegraph #fulltext

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anthroposophystudies · 5 years

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Studies in Anthroposophy, Winter 2019

Living in Harmony with the Life Forces of Earth

– an exploration of some of the works arising from the insights of Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual science

Six Sunday afternoon classes, 2:30 - 4:30 PM, January 20 – March 3, no class Feb. 17

Including a therapeutic watercolor exercise in each class led by Sarah Williams Smith.

Lower Grade School – Ashwood Waldorf School, Rockport, ME

Tuition –$150, Registration: go to the sidebar to the left on this page.

Jan. 20 – Creating Sanctuary for Body, Soul, and Spirit – Susan Silverio

January 27 – Biodynamics - Deb Soule and Tom Griffin

February 3 - Eurythmy – Barbara Richardson

February 10 – Water - Jennifer Greene

February 24 – Remedial Therapeutic Education – Sarah Williams Smith

March 3 - Anthroposophic Medicine - Dan Einstein, MD

March 10 – Snow Date

Jan. 20 – Creating Sanctuary for Body, Soul, and Spirit – Susan Silverio Teacher at Spindlewood Waldorf Kindergarten as well as LifeWays Early Childhood and Human Development training in the Northeast, Susan now maintains the kinder cottage in Lincolnville as a guest house and family retreat.

So, what is the fourfold nature of our dwelling places and how can we foster their vitality? What can we learn from those who care for Steiner early childhood settings and the Goetheanum? Through stories and conversation, let’s explore the art of caring for our human environment. Recommended reading: The Spiritual Tasks of the Homemaker by Manfred Schmidt-Brabant

January 27 – Biodynamics - Deb Soule and Tom Griffin

In a series of lectures given in Helsinki in 1912, Rudolf Steiner addresses the topic of Spiritual Beings in the Kingdoms of Nature. In the first two lectures of this series, he speaks of the etheric body of the Earth in relation to the elemental beings of earth air water and fire. As BD farmers we find ourselves continuously in conversation with these elementals. Our intention is to present a basic understanding of who these beings are AND, more importantly, how we as BD farmers relate to and work with these spiritual entities in our own unique and individualized way.

Deb is an herbalist, gardener, teacher, and author of Healing Herbs for Women: A Guide to Natural Remedies and How to Move Like a Gardener. Her passion for plants, gardens, and healing and her commitment to sharing herbal knowledge with others is central to her work. She is frequently a guest lecturer at various conferences as well as an instructor for botany and horticulture students, garden clubs, and medical students. Deb the founder of Avena Botanicals in Rockport, ME, the first farm in Maine to be Demeter certified biodynamic.

Tom has B.S. degree in Soil Science from California Polytechnic University at San Luis and an M.S. degree from the University of Maryland at College Park. He has over 25 years of biodynamic farming experience, and this season marks his 17th year at Hope’s Edge Farm. Hope’s Edge is primarily a vegetable CSA with 85 to 100 members and is also home to a small flock of Friesian sheep in Hope, Maine.

February 3 - Eurythmy – Barbara Richardson

Barbara Richardson is a eurythmist living in Freeport, ME. She specializes Eurythmy in the Workplace. After one of the recent sessions, a participant reflected:

'Arriving in a space of unified working, Where each person can find their relationship to the whole, Requires the inner activity of each to awaken to the whole, And the whole to awaken to each individual. In this working together, individual freedom is not lost, But rather enhanced through joyful working together With clear intention toward a common goal.'

We will do eurythmy to poetry with copper balls. Eurythmy enlivens, engages and supports the life forces preparing us for our work together. After eurythmy we will have a short time of reflection and sharing our experiences in conversation.

February 10 – Water - Jennifer Greene

Jennifer Greene founded the Water Research Institute of Blue Hill. She is a regular presenter at anthroposophical conferences in the US, Canada, and Europe.

‘Water phenomena experiments not only illuminate aspects of water’s intrinsic nature but also school our capacity for observation. This can lead to a new understanding of science.’ We will work with one or two water experiments and attempt to ‘read’ the story that they tell of water’s nature. www.waterresearch.org

Suggested reading: Broadening Science through Anthroposophy, Volume 1: The World of the Ethers by Ernst Marti

February 24 – Remedial Therapeutic Education – Sarah Williams Smith

Sarah Williams Smith is a trained Waldorf therapeutic and remedial practitioner. She works directly with adults and children in her private practice. Sarah is also a graduate of LifeWays Early Childhood and Human Development training and is the founder and co-teacher at Meadowsweet Morning Garden, a play-based, nature-centered early childhood program. Sarah holds a bachelor’s degree in biology. She lives in Belfast with her husband and their three boys.

Sarah will lead a discussion on therapeutic techniques used in Waldorf schools and anthroposophical communities worldwide. First developed by Audrey McAllen out of the insights of Rudolf Steiner and other close associates, these Extra Lesson exercises address imbalances to our four-fold body, our three-fold nature, and our senses. Such imbalances often present themselves as learning, behavior and/or movement challenges. The Extra Lesson series of artistic, painting and movement activities ultimately aims to reconnect the soul of the recipient with the truest human archetype, an archetype which has become increasingly obscured in our modern world. We will focus specifically on remediation techniques addressing the etheric body, including hands-on activities and demonstrations.

Suggested additional reading: Foundations of the Extra Lesson by Joep Eikenboom, A Psychology of Body, Soul, and Spirit by Rudolf Steiner

March 3 - Anthroposophic Medicine - Dan Einstein, MD

Dr. Einstein is an integrative family medicine doctor practicing in Freeport and Rockport, Maine. Dr. Einstein began his journey in medicine in 2000 by volunteering at free clinics in the San Francisco area. Finding that he loved both conventional and holistic medicine, he trained as an herbalist at the Blue Otter School and then went on to medical school at Case Western in Cleveland, Ohio. He met his wife there, and both of them came back to New England for residency training at Maine-Dartmouth in Augusta. He is now board certified in Family Medicine, Integrative Medicine, and Anthroposophic medicine. He lives with his wife, daughter and several animals in Freeport. Website: holistic-einstein.com

In the modern world, we are bombarded with advice on lifestyle changes that can improve our health. Much of this advice conflicts with the increasing demands of work and constant connectivity. In an effort to resolve this tension, Dr. Einstein will review the fourfold human (physical, etheric, astral and I) and lead a discussion of health-giving practices to support each one. Many of these practices will be familiar to participants but understanding their interaction with the fourfold can deepen their significance. Additionally, this understanding allows the practices to be modified to suit the realities of each person’s life. After the large group discussion, we will break into small groups to discuss how our own health practices might improve from this knowledge. In preparation for this class, please feel free to write down your own health practices and what they mean to you.

Artistic Exercises as part of each class

Sarah Williams Smith will lead us in the Moral Color Exercises, a series of six paintings based on a 1915 lecture by Rudolf Steiner. These color exercises work as a cleansing, reorientation of the soul, helping us reharmonize ourselves when faced with the modern forces of materialism, overscheduling and disconnection from the spiritual world.

March 10 – Snow Date

Six Sunday afternoon classes, 2:30 - 4:30 PM, January 20 – March 3, no class Feb. 17.

Including a therapeutic watercolor exercise in each class led by Sarah Williams Smith.

Lower Grade School – Ashwood Waldorf School, Rockport, ME

Tuition –$150, Registration go to the sidebar on the left of this page.

More info: [email protected]

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robbialy · 3 years

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From • @brucelabruce Gay superstar Vaslav Nijinsky, considered one of, if not the, greatest male dancers of the 20th century, was BOTD in 1889 and died in 1950 at the age of 61. (I posted that he was born a couple of weeks ago, but apparently it was today. At any rate, it gives me an excuse to post more pics of her, uh, him.) Born to Polish parents in Kiev, he was accepted to the world-renowned Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg at the age of 9. In 1909 he joined the Ballet Russes and under the tutelage of Sergei Diaghilev, he caused a worldwide sensation with his homoerotically charged dances, especially his interpretation of L'après-midi d'un faune, in which he may or may not have masturbated in the final scene. His "The Rite of Spring" caused an international uproar, challenging the limits of traditional ballet and propriety. Diaghilev and Nijinsky were lovers, and after many tempestuous years of both business and pleasure, Nijinsky was seduced away by a dreadful opportunistic woman who forced him to have two children. He was soon diagnosed as schizophrenic and spent the next thirty years in and out of psychiatric institutions. There was a movie planned to be made about Nijinsky in 1970 with screenplay by Edward Albee to be directed by Tony Richardson and starring Rudolf Nureyev, but it never got made!! That would have been epic!! Instead we got a film made called "Nijinsky" in 1980 directed by Herbert Ross staring ballet dance George d la Pena, a pretty lacklustre affair... https://www.instagram.com/p/CMWGgnkJEWlyw74hQJxR5DEmk3yo8cRAzSEW700/?igshid=1hk5kv7q2zw2o

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chloeokeeffecommunitymultiverse · 3 years

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Clare Richardson

My Inspiration for my theme.

She’s a British Photographer and some of her work that has caught my eye is her work within and around the Harlemville. Harlemville is a small community of people in Northeast America that lives in accordance with the writings of the early 20th century philosopher Rudolf Steiner. Clare Richardson first visited Harlemville in the spring of 2000, initially to spend time with a friend who was studying bio dynamic farming, Steiner’s agricultural practice. She was immediately taken with the impact that this communities beliefs has on the rearing of their children - in particular, the emphasis that was placed on mobilising the imaginative world of each child and the importance of story telling and play in developing this capacity in them. Clare stepped into this community without being conscious of the connections this rarefied existence had with her own childhood or photographic practice, but both elements became her links with Harlemville and basis for the friendships that she formed. When discussing the origins of her Harlemville project she said ‘I’m not trying to tell a story with my pictures I’m trying to tell my story of my time and my relationship to that place, for sure, that also determines what I take and I have a very isolationary way of looking a things so that’s what I come back with. I always think I’d like another photographer to go back to somewhere I’ve photographed, like Harlemville and see what they come away with.’

I feel like this links in well with my theme towards community because she’s explored how a community work together and enjoy each other’s company, much like how I want to portray my community in my final images.

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pennylime · 1 year

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back to posting old art~~

I have a lot of ghost eyes fanart from over the years, so I kind of want to post all of them here, even if my first one is from like, 3 years ago and I hate it lol. I think it's cool to see them over the years :)

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(Dec 2020 I'm pretty sure i dont have the date and dont feel like looking. It was a gift for a friend for christmas so ye)

(March 2020)

I started reading this comic in like,, early-mid 2019. It's been such a huge part of my life, and I still freak out whenever it updates (in the good way lol).

Thank you Mr circus papa for making such an amazing piece of media :)

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webtoon-related-tournaments · 1 year

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Woo Young-Woo is an accurate depiction of an autistic person and she really, really loves whales. She actually loves two things: law, and whales. And while she made a job out of her love of law by becoming a lawyer, she doesn't intend to let go of her love of whales anytime soon. Did i mention she loves whales? Rudy Richardson is a suicidal, self harming, manipulative kid with implied BPD (which at least two people told me he was a bad depiction of so he might not be it, whether or not it's canon is debatable anyway, and I didn't read it so it's all hearsay) but he likes to feel cute despite it all.

#disability representation #webtoons #ghost eyes #extraordinary attorney woo #tournament poll #round 3

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mightyville · 12 years

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(Originally published on July 17, 2012)

The 2012 Eisner Award Winners

The Eisner Awards were held this past weekend at San Diego Comic-Con, honoring many deserving writers, artists, publications and more in the comics industry. We have a list of the winners for you to check out here. What do you think? Did the Eisner\'s get it right? Were you surprised by any of their selections?

Best Short Story The Seventh by Darwyn Cooke, in Richard Stark\'s Parker: The Martini Edition (IDW)

Best Single Issue (or One-Shot) Daredevil #7 by Mark Waid, Paolo Rivera, and Joe Rivera (Marvel) Best Continuing Series Daredevil by Mark Waid, Marcos Martin, Paolo Rivera, and Joe Rivera (Marvel) Best Limited Series Criminal: The Last of the Innocent by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Marvel Icon) Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 7) Dragon Puncher Island by James Kochalka (Top Shelf) Best Publication for Kids (ages 8 - 12) Snarked by Roger Langridge (kaboom!) Best Publication for Young Adults (Ages 12 - 17) Anya\'s Ghost by Vera Brosgol (First Second) Best Anthology Dark Horse Presents edited by Mike Richardson (Dark Horse) Best Humor Publication Milk & Cheese: Dairy Products Gone Bad by Evan Dorkin (Dark Horse Books) Best Digital Comic Battlepug by Mike Norton, www.battlepug.com Best Reality-Based Work Green River Killer: A True Detective Story by Jeff Jensen and Jonathan Case (Dark Horse Books) Best Graphic Album - New Jim Henson\'s Tale of Sand adapted by Ramon K. Perez (Archaia) Best Graphic Album - Reprint Richard Stark\'s Parker: The Martini Edition by Darwyn Cooke (IDW) Best Archival Collection/Project - Comic Strips Walt Disney\'s Mickey Mouse Volumes 1-2 by Floyd Gottfredson, edited by David Gerstein and Gary Groth (Fantagraphics) Best Archival Collection/Project - Comic Books Walt Simonson\'s The Mighty Thor Artist\'s Edition (IDW) Best U.S. Edition of International Material The Manara Library, vol. 1: Indian Summer and Other Stories by Milo Manara with Hugo Pratt (Dark Horse Books) Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths by Shigeru Mizuki (Drawn & Quarterly) Best Writer Mark Waid, Irredeemable, Incorruptible (BOOM!); Daredevil (Marvel) Best Writer/Artist Craig Thompson, Habibi (Pantheon) Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team RamÃ³n K. PÃ©rez, Jim Henson\'s Tale of Sand (Archaia) Best Cover Artist Francesco Francavilla, Black Panther (Marvel); Lone Ranger, Lone Ranger/Zorro, Dark Shadows, Warlord of Mars (Dynamite); Archie Meets Kiss (Archie) Best Coloring Laura Allred, iZombie (Vertigo/DC); Madman All-New Giant-Size Super-Ginchy Special (Image) Best Lettering Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo (Dark Horse) Best Comics-Related Journalism The Comics Reporter, produced by Tom Spurgeon, www.comicsreporter.com Best Educational/Academic Work (tie) Cartooning: Philosophy & Practice by Ivan Brunetti (Yale University Press) Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby by Charles Hatfield (University Press of Mississippi) Best Comics-Related Book MetaMaus by Art Spiegelman (Pantheon) Best Publication Design Jim Henson\'s Tale of Sand designed by Eric Skillman (Archaia) Hall of Fame Judges\' Choices: Rudolf Dirks, Harry Lucey Bill Blackbeard, Richard Corben, Katsuhiro Otomo, Gilbert Shelton Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award Tyler Crook, artist of Petrograd (Oni Press) and B.P.R.D. (Dark Horse) Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award Morrie Turner, creator of the comic strip Wee Pals Bill Finger Excellence in Comic Book Writing Award Frank Doyle, writer, Archie, Betty and Veronica, Jughead Steve Skeates, writer, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, Sarge Steel, Aquaman, Supergirl

Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award Akira Comics in Madrid, Spain - Jesus Marugan Escobar, and The Dragon in Guelph, ON, Canada - Jennifer Haines

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flammentanz · 7 years

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Ralph Richardson as Rudolf a.k.a. The Boss in “Things to Come” (1936)

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January 29 in Music History

1664 FP of Moliere and Lully's The Forced Marriage in the Louvre, Paris.

1703 Birth of composer Carlmann Kolb. 1711 Birth of Italian composer Giuseppe Bonno. 1715 Birth of Austrian composer and pianist Georg Christoph Wagenseil in Vienna. 1728 FP of The Beggar's Opera by John Gay and Christopher Pepusch, at Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. 1781 FP of Mozart's Idomeneo at the Hoftheater in Munich. 1782 Birth of French composer Daniel-Francois Auber in Caen.

1782 Birth of composer Frantiszek Tucek Scigalski. 1801 Birth of Dutch violinist and composer Johannes Bernardus van Bree in Amsterdam. 1824 Birth of composer Karl von Perfall. 1826 FP of Schubert's d minor String Quartet Death and the Maiden at the Vienna home of Karl and Franz Hacker in Vienna. 1849 Birth of bass-baritone Anton Von Fuchs in Munich. 1852 Birth of British composer Sir Frederic Hymen.

1859 Birth of baritone Karl Scheidemantel in Weimer

1862 Birth of English composer Frederick 'Fritz' Theodor Albert Delius in Bradford, Yorkshire. 1864 Birth of composer Adolf Phillip. 1871 Birth of composer Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco. 1871 Birth of Hungarian composer Desiderius Demenyi.

1872 Death of soprano Benita Morena in La Coruna.

1873 Birth of American composer Charles Henry Mills.

1874 Birth of composer Robert Lach. 1876 Birth of English composer Havergal Brian in Dresden, Staffordshire.

1877 Birth of soprano Davida Hesse in Gafle, Sweden.

1882 FP of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Snow Maiden in St. Petersburg.

1884 Birth of Estonian composer Juhan Aavic aka Juhan AAVIK. 1889 Birth of German composer Rudolf Mauersberger. 1889 Birth of Filipino composer Francisco Santiago. 1890 Birth of French composer Marguerite Canal.

1891 Birth of mezzo-soprano Marie Rejholcova in Kourim.

1893 Birth of English composer and conductor Edric Cundell.

1893 Birth of Hungarian composer Martian Negrea.

1897 Birth of soprano Mary Lewis in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

1898 Birth of soprano Maria Müller in Theresienstadt.

1898 Birth of Belgian cellist, composer and conductor Fernand Quinet. 1900 Birth of Yugoslavian composer Marko Tajcevic.

1905 Death of baritone Max Stagemann.

1916 Birth of soprano Kyra Vayne aka Kyra Knopmuss, in St Petersburg.

1916 Death of composer Edward Hubertus Johannes Keurvils at age 62. 1916 FP of S. Prokofiev's Scythian Suite, with Prokofiev conducting at the Mariinsky Theater in Petrograd.

1923 Birth of mezzo-soprano Ira Malaniuk in Stanislau, Poland.

1924 Birth of soprano Lois Marshall in Toronto.

1924 Death of composer Joseph Ludwig at age 79. 1924 Birth of Italian composer Luigi Nono in Venice.

1928 Birth of Canadian composer Bengt Hambraeus.

1929 Death of baritone and coach Jacques Bouhy.

1932 FP of Gershwin's 'Rhapsody No 2' originally called Rhapsody In Rivets.

1934 Birth of composer Paul Gutama Soegijo. 1936 Birth of English pianist Malcolm Binns.

1936 FP of Constant Lambert's Summer's Last Will and Testament for chorus and orchestra, in London.

1939 Birth of soprano Lorna Haywood in Birmingham.

1940 Birth of bass Justino Diaz in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1940 Death of bass Edward Lankow.

1942 Death of bass Foster Richardson.

1942 Death of composer Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal at age 92. 1943 Birth of English composer Timothy Andrew James Souster in Bletchley.

1943 Birth of soprano Irma Urrila in Helsinki.

1946 Death of English composer Sidney James Jones at age 84.

1952 Birth of bass Roderick Earle in Winchester.

1957 Death of soprano Marcella Roeseler.

1960 Birth of violinist Cho Liang Lin Taiwan.

1960 Death of baritone Mack Harrell.

1961 Birth of English composer Janet Owen Thomas in Crosby, Liverpool.

1962 Death of Austrian-born violin virtuoso Fritz Kreisler

1962 Birth of soprano Rosa Mannion in Lancashire.

1965 Death of composer Michael Spisak at 50.

1965 Death of soprano and coach Henny Wolff.

1966 Death of baritone Julien Giovanetti.

1966 Death of French-Canadian composer Pierre Mercure. 1967 Death of Polish composer Wlodzimierz Pozniak at age 62. 1971 Birth of German composer Matthias Pintscher.

1973 Death of composer Johannes Paul Thilman at age 67. 1979 Birth of American composer Jonathan Saggau.

1980 Death of composer Antonio Molina at age 85. 1981 FP of American composer John Towner Williams' Violin Concerto, dedicated to the memory of his wife, actress and singer Barbara Ruick Williams.

1987 Death of composer Ivo Lhotka-Kalinski.

1988 Death, suicide, of American opera singer Bantcho Bantchevsky.

1988 Death of Dutch composer and conductor Rogier Van Otterloo at age 46.

1991 Death of Dutch pianist Jan Ode.

1992 Death of tenor Zannis Cambanis.

2001 Death of mezzo-soprano Frances Bible.

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Woolf is one of the greatest twentieth century novelists and short story writers and one of the pioneers, among modernist writers using stream of consciousness as a narrative device, alongside contemporaries such as Marcel Proust, Dorothy Richardson and James Joyce. Woolf's reputation was at its greatest during the 1930s, but declined considerably following World War II. The growth of feminist criticism in the 1970s helped re-establish her reputation.

Virginia submitted her first article in 1890, to a competition in Tit-Bits. Although it was rejected, this shipboard romance by the eight-year old, would presage her first novel fifteen years later, as were contributions to the Hyde Park News, such as the model letter "to show young people the right way to express what is in their hearts", a subtle commentary on her mother's legendary matchmaking. She began writing professionally in 1900, and in November 1904 started sending articles to the editor of the Women's Supplement of The Guardian, the first of which appeared on December 14 of that year,although anonymously, being a review of a visit to Haworth that year, titled Haworth, November 1904. From 1905 she wrote for The Times Literary Supplement.

Woolf would go on to publish novels and essays as a public intellectual to both critical and popular acclaim. Much of her work was self-published through the Hogarth Press. "Virginia Woolf's peculiarities as a fiction writer have tended to obscure her central strength: she is arguably the major lyrical novelist in the English language. Her novels are highly experimental: a narrative, frequently uneventful and commonplace, is refracted—and sometimes almost dissolved—in the characters' receptive consciousness. Intense lyricism and stylistic virtuosity fuse to create a world overabundant with auditory and visual impressions". "The intensity of Virginia Woolf's poetic vision elevates the ordinary, sometimes banal settings"—often wartime environments—"of most of her novels".

Main article: The Voyage OutHer first novel, The Voyage Out, was published in 1915 at the age of 33, by her half-brother's imprint, Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd. This novel was originally titled Melymbrosia, but Woolf repeatedly changed the draft. An earlier version of The Voyage Out has been reconstructed by Woolf scholar Louise DeSalvo and is now available to the public under the intended title. DeSalvo argues that many of the changes Woolf made in the text were in response to changes in her own life. The novel is set on a ship bound for South America, and a group of young Edwardians onboard and their various mismatched yearnings and misunderstandings. In the novel are hints of themes that would emerge in later work, including the gap between preceding thought and the spoken word that follows, and the lack of concordance between expression and underlying intention, together with how these reveal to us aspects of the nature of love.

Main article: Mrs Dalloway"Mrs Dalloway (1925) centres on the efforts of Clarissa Dalloway, a middle-aged society woman, to organise a party, even as her life is paralleled with that of Septimus Warren Smith, a working-class veteran who has returned from the First World War bearing deep psychological scars",

Main article: To The Lighthouse"To the Lighthouse (1927)is set on two days ten years apart. The plot centres on the Ramsay family's anticipation of and reflection upon a visit to a lighthouse and the connected familial tensions. One of the primary themes of the novel is the struggle in the creative process that beset painter Lily Briscoe while she struggles to paint in the midst of the family drama. The novel is also a meditation upon the lives of a nation's inhabitants in the midst of war, and of the people left behind." It also explores the passage of time, and how women are forced by society to allow men to take emotional strength from them.

Main article: Orlando: A BiographyOrlando: A Biography (1928) is one of Virginia Woolf's lightest novels. A parodic biography of a young nobleman who lives for three centuries without ageing much past thirty (but who does abruptly turn into a woman), the book is in part a portrait of Woolf's lover Vita Sackville-West. It was meant to console Vita for the loss of her ancestral home, Knole House, though it is also a satirical treatment of Vita and her work. In Orlando, the techniques of historical biographers are being ridiculed; the character of a pompous biographer is being assumed in order for it to be mocked.

Main article: The Waves"The Waves (1931) presents a group of six friends whose reflections, which are closer to recitatives than to interior monologues proper, create a wave-like atmosphere that is more akin to a prose poem than to a plot-centred novel".

Main article: Flush: A BiographyFlush: A Biography (1933) is a part-fiction, part-biography of the cocker spaniel owned by Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The book is written from the dog's point of view. Woolf was inspired to write this book from the success of the Rudolf Besier play The Barretts of Wimpole Street. In the play, Flush is on stage for much of the action. The play was produced for the first time in 1932 by the actress Katharine Cornell

Main article: Between the Acts"Her last work, Between the Acts (1941), sums up and magnifies Woolf's chief preoccupations: the transformation of life through art, sexual ambivalence, and meditation on the themes of flux of time and life, presented simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation—all set in a highly imaginative and symbolic narrative encompassing almost all of English history."This book is the most lyrical of all her works, not only in feeling but in style, being chiefly written in verse. While Woolf's work can be understood as consistently in dialogue with the Bloomsbury group, particularly its tendency (informed by G. E. Moore, among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism, it is not a simple recapitulation of the coterie's

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