It’s hell being a superhero
Telegraph - They’re invading our cinemas this summer, but saving the world is the least of their problems. The modern hero is a messed-up guy who drinks too much – and is all the more super for it, says James Delingpole.
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How the Tate got streetwise
Guardian - It’s the anti-establishment movement that has taken the art market by storm, keenly collected by hedge-funders and Hollywood’ s A-list. Now, even Tate Modern is giving Street Art its stamp of approval.
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John Stuart Mill, The Forgotten Philosopher
Chronicle Review, by Alan Wolfe - Contemporary academic philosophy is riven by a great divide: Either you adhere to a Continental perspective identified with Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger that addresses big speculative subjects like the Essence of Being, or you identify with the British and American analytic school that puts a priority on rigorous logic, language, and meaning. What, then, are we to make of John Stuart Mill, who belongs to neither?
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The “Duke” and Democracy: On John Wayne
Dissent Magazine, by Charles Taylor - ONE OF THE great joys of the movies is their ability to convince us that we know the people on screen. Even the varied performances of the most versatile stars are often not strong enough to prevail against the overarching image we’ve formed of them. When Joan Didion met John Wayne on the set of the 1965 The Sons of Katie Elder, she wrote of having the sense that his face was more familiar to her than her husband’s.
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The age of educational romanticism
New Criterion, by Charles Murray - American schools have never been able to teach everyone how to read, write, and do arithmetic. The myth that they could has arisen because schools a hundred years ago did not have to educate the least able. When the twentieth century began, about a quarter of all adults had not reached fifth grade and half had not reached eighth grade.
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Where Lab Meets Atelier
Newsweek - Pablo Picasso and the Cubists were fascinated by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, Georges Braque’s deconstructed still-lifes were inspired by the idea of a fourth dimension, and Claude Monet’s sophisticated use of color suggests that he was—at least subconsciously—a very shrewd chemist.
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Breaking The Galilean Spell
Edge, by Stuart A. Kauffman - Our current scientific worldview, derived from Galileo, Newton, and their followers, is the foundation of modern secular society, itself the child of the Enlightenment. At base, our contemporary perspective is reductionist: all phenomena are ultimately to be explained in terms of the interactions of fundamental particles.
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Kulturna politika u Srbiji danas
Republika - Kultura u Srbiji u ovom trenutku lomi se između kolektivističkih matrica, ovaj put uvijenih u veo nacionalnih fantazama, s jedne, i univerzalnih obrazaca ljudskih sloboda i prava, koji pretpostavljaju pojedinca kolektivu, s druge strane. Svaki zahvat u polje kulture nužno mora imati posledice na konačan ishod tog konflikta koji traje u srpskoj kulturi i u srpskom društvu uopšte. Poželjno je da oni koji imaju ambiciju da deluju u kulturi budu toga svesni.
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