New translation Ubayd i Zakani : The Mice and the Cat Muhaddis, Ali, Utas, Bo: The Mice and the Cat. 2011. 88p. (RAAS. Reports on Asian and African studies, ISSN 1404-0743; 3) 798-91-506-2200-3 http://iranianstudies.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/new-book-the-mice-and-the-cat/
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Speciesism and some form of aesthetics, they seem to inevitably go together, and this creates a major ethical problem. How do these two connect? Maybe because aesthetics can help to give an excuse to prolong a wrong stance that one is acting up to and is aware of doing so. Speciesism comprises the conscious element…
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Death, and the Dead?
Everybody is individual in life or death. This is what I can see in the art of Rudimetary Peni singer Nick Blinko: http://www.deathrock.com/rudimentarypeni/main.html. I don’t fully understand why it’s such a “big deal” if someone has not studied arts, but is an artist. I know quiet a few people who have studied arts, but who…
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Jackie Ormes, brilliant cartoonist
Torchy in Heartbeats “Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist”: http://www.jackieormes.com/ a biography by Nancy Goldstein “Jackie Ormes’ cartoons often responded to events that were important to the black community, such as the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi. Till was killed in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman.” From…
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Gee Vaucher on 96gillespie.com
Gee Vaucher on 96gillespie.com http://www.96gillespie.com/artists_profiles/vaucher.htm (the link doesn’t work anymore unfortunately) Here is an alternative link, but at another venue: http://www.alice-wonderland.net/bracketpress/EXHIBITIONS/liverpool.html See works of Gee Vaucher on 96gillespie. I always admired her work (since I became a huge fan of the famous Crass in 1983 I guess). Gee’s ART is so critical, political and aesthetically…