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• Weaving for the Future: Anni Albers

  
  Art Ravels — Authority: 126
  Albers, 1925 Albers, 1925 Speaking of color theory and Bauhaus , another artist who caught my eye at MoMAs exhibition was Anni Albers (wife of Josef). Albers produced textiles that explore color values and composition as well as the technical properties of fabric. She began study at the Bauhaus in 1922. ...
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• Prada: bound & booked

  
  Excess Baggage — Authority: 121
  following the footsteps of Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion and Architecture book , Prada has just released their own tome entitled Prada: Creativity, Modernity, Innovation it traces the Milanese fashion houses history since its beginnings in 1913. with particular focus on their foray into the ...
  23 hours ago

• Picking Favorites from Bauhaus at MoMA

  
  Art Ravels — Authority: 126
  The images below are some of my favorites from the Bauhaus: Workshops for Modernity exhibition at MoMA on view through Jan 25, 2010. While this informative exhibition will lead you through the history of the Bauhaus school from 1919 to 1933, the infighting of school leaders and teaching system didnt interest ...
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• Pattern-based Worship: The loop vs. the line.

  
  Sound and Silence — Authority: 112
  One of the major features of the modern era, from which we are currently emerging, is linearity.  This is propped up by the “myth of progress” wherein all history moves towards the future through Greek conceptions of time – telos (purpose) and chronos (linear time) – expressed though our systemising of ...
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• Prada: Innovation In A Book

  
  Smashing Darling Blog — Authority: 128
  Just in time for the holidays. Prada: creativity, modernity, innovation , the book was unveiled yesterday.  Can one ever get enough fashion? The book will be available to the public at Prada stores worldwide as well as on prada.com and selected bookshops.
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• Descartes’ Ambivalent Relationship with Tradition

  
  Per Caritatem — Authority: 103
  Descartes is often referred to as the “father” of modern philosophy and for good reasons.  In several of his works, Descartes speaks openly of his frustrations with his philosophical predecessors, highlighting the various ways that they contradict themselves and leave one in a state of skepticism and despair.  ...
  6 days ago

• Chidambaram in Deoband: Condemn communalism in word and action (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Deoband (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 3 (IANS) Emphasising that communalism was against “pluralism” and opposed “political freedom to people”, union Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday called for tolerance to “strengthen the strands that bind civil society”.“Communalism is the negation of pluralism. Communalism ...
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• Islam’s Darwin Problem

  
  Pak Tea House — Authority: 524
  By Drake Bennett in the Boston Globe Three weeks ago, with much fanfare, a team of scientists unveiled the fossil skeleton of Ardi, a 4-foot-tall female primate who lived and died 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. According to her discoverers, Ardi – short for Ardipithecus ramidus, her species – is ...
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• Avatar: a mash-up

  
  Talk Stories — Authority: 154
  This piece is a mash-up of an undergrad essay from a couple of years ago, plus present thoughts, imaginings and speculation on the narrative of self in a virtual environment. Storytelling is as old as humanity. The human has always actively projected him/herself into realms of fantasy (through song, art, drama, ...
  2 weeks ago

• From The Christian Science Monitor Via A & L Daily: An Interview With Francis Fukuyama

  
  Chris Navin — Authority: 124
  Full interview here . So to Robert Kagan, Fukuyama might argue: “…the pessimism about civilization that we had developed as a result of the terrible 20th century, with its genocides, gulags, and world wars, was actually not the whole picture at all. In fact, there were a lot of positive trends going on in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Virtual Conference Report: Day Four (22 Oct, 2009)

  
  Religion Compass Exchanges — Authority: 418
  by paulabowlesThe conference today has taken on a distinctly environmental feel. First up was Mark Macklin’s (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) keynote address entitled ‘Floodplain Catastrophes and Climate Change: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of Riverine Societies.’ In his paper, Macklin observes that ‘[w]e ...
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• Virtual Conference Report: Day Four (22 Oct, 2009)

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 127
  by paulabowles The conference today has taken on a distinctly environmental feel. First up was Mark Macklin’s (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) keynote address entitled ‘ Floodplain Catastrophes and Climate Change: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of Riverine Societies .’ In his paper, Macklin ...
  2 weeks ago

• WSC Graduate Defends Oxford DPhil on Barth

  
  Heidelblog — Authority: 536
  Congratulations to Westminster Seminary California (’04) alumnus and sometime lecturer in Historical Theology at WSC, Ryan Glomsrud (MA, Historical Theology), on the successful completion and defense of his Oxford DPhil thesis on Karl Barth. Here’s a précis:Ryan D. Glomsrud, Karl Barth Between Pietism & ...
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• The Power & Promise of Regional Gatherings for the Equipping of Missional Churches

  
  lifeasmission — Authority: 117
  A bit of background to this post… I used to want to be the next Rick Warren or Bill Hybels.  What student pastor in the late 90’s didn’t?  As I look back, my misaligned, youthful arrogance was fueled in large part by the national conferences I was attending.  Predicated on the modern notion that bigger is ...
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• Virtual Conference Report: Day One (19 Oct, 2009)

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 127
  by Paula Bowles Welcome to the first day of the 2009 Compass Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference . Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter) opened the conference by asking: ‘ Why Interdisciplinarity? ’ As part of her introductory remarks, Professor Gagnier discusses the definitions of Interdisciplinarity, ...
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• Virtual Conference Report: Day One (19 Oct, 2009)

  
  Religion Compass Exchanges — Authority: 418
  by Paula BowlesWelcome to the first day of the 2009 Compass Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference. Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter) opened the conference by asking: ‘Why Interdisciplinarity?’ As part of her introductory remarks, Professor Gagnier discusses the definitions of Interdisciplinarity, as well as ...
  3 weeks ago

• Theology and Down Syndrome: Reimagining Disability in Late Modernity

  
  Sreelancer — Authority: 466
  Review Sometimes a book comes along which not only moves a field on but also changes its direction. Yong’s work is just such a book. His careful and systematic theological analysis of disability offers insights and perspectives that allow his readers to grasp the meaning of disability and humanness in ways ...
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• Crazy!

  
  Covenant Zone — Authority: 525
  I know now just how cool it was to sit on the living room floor at the neighbours house with my friend and watch television. Television, which most of us now dont bother with because there are better media to receive our delights, was in the day some miracle we could hardly witness without tears of joy. But even then ...
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• Sloughing off the skin of Labourism

  
  Eurhythmania — Authority: 106
  **Below is a long off-cut from the Phd. It summarises and evaluates a variety of political histories: Greg Melleuishs work on Australian Liberalism, George Megalogenis The Longest Decade  and Ken Warks essayistic analysis of Australian political and cultural postmodernity.** Paul Kelly’s ...
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• Dirt, Dollars, and Devices

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 133
  Holland, MI . I confess: I hate farms. I hate everything about them. I hate the malodorous smells that take days to wash off. I hate the all-pervasive dirt which invades the home and clings to the children. I hate the aggressive, large, noisy and ubiquitous flies. I hate the crickets and their incessant mind-bending ...
  3 weeks ago

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