На информационном ресурсе применяются рекомендательные технологии (информационные технологии предоставления информации на основе сбора, систематизации и анализа сведений, относящихся к предпочтениям пользователей сети "Интернет", находящихся на территории Российской Федерации)

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Higher Ed Bottoms Out

Higher Ed Bottoms Out Authored by James Howard Kunstler, "There are so many disgusting animals in public life that we have allowed to fraternize with the rest of society to our absolute peril." - Aimee Terese on "X" Harvard, apparently, can never learn. It has made itself... Далее

Best Dressed 2019 — the Oscars of Fashion aka The Met Ball & Some Oscars Looks

A look back at my favorite looks from the 2019 Oscars, some of the afterparties, and the Met Gala. Looking at the Met Ball, the 2019 Met Gala theme was inspired by Susan Sontag’s legendary 1964 essay, “Notes on Camp,” in which she describes camp as the “love of the unnatural: of artifice and... Далее

The Source of Self-Regard: Toni Morrison on Wisdom in the Age of Information

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “Information will never replace illumination,” Susan Sontag prophesied shortly before her death, before the birth of the social media newsfeed, as she considered the conscience of words and writer’s responsibility to society. A generation earlier,... Далее

These Truths: Jill Lepore on How the Shift from Mythology to Science Shaped the Early Dream of Democracy

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “Between those happenings that prefigure it / And those that happen in its anamnesis / Occurs the Event, but that no human wit / Can recognize until all happening ceases,” W.H. Auden wrote in considering the selective set of remembrances and... Далее

French Philosopher Maurice Blanchot on Writing, the Dual Power of Language to Reveal and Conceal, and What It Really Means to See

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “The job of the writer is to make us see the world as it is,” Susan Sontag asserted in considering the conscience of words. “Words are events, they do things, change things,” Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in her splendid meditation on the magic of real... Далее

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