#AdamTooze: “There is no #manufacturing #renaissance in Trump’s #America” open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz... (plus #art by #WilliamBlake)
#williamBlake
Ol' Bill knew how to write an inspirational poem when he felt like it.
#WilliamBlake
Derart begeistert von »Love Lies Bleedin« (2024), dass ich mir nun auch Regie-Debüt von #RoseGlass gegönnt habe. »Saint Maud« (2019). Unglaubliches Spiel von Morfydd Clark als geistig angeknackste Heimpflegerin Maud, und Pallativpatientin Jennifer Ehle. Ruhiger, intimer und poetischer Psycho-#Horror mit kräftigen religös-ekstatischen Aspekten. Unterdrückte Leidenschaften und so. Könnte 1 zu 1 so auch in Niederbayern spielen.
BONUS: #WilliamBlake Kunst kommt vor.
https://youtu.be/EXs2-TY9qok
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon edging to first slip?
#cricket #Jerusalem #WilliamBlake #SmarmyArmy
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Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?
#williamblake #artist #art #pixelfedartists
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?
#williamblake #artist #art #pixelfedartists
The Most Valiant Way to Complain Is to Create: William Blake and the Stubborn Courage of the Unexampled
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/28/william-blake-vs-the-world/
Apparently, Thursday is kite day. It's the day that you're reminded to go buy a kite and put it in your car/backpack, so that, come the weekend, you've got one handy.
Tyger will NOT be participating.
Image details in the #alttext
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Seychelles (Seychelles)
Today we visited Seychelles (Seychelles), and it was nothing short of paradise. The crystal-clear waters, white sand beaches, and vibrant wildlife created a truly unforgettable experience. We can't wait to share these magical memories with our friends and family back home. Text model: neural-chat Image model: EventHorizonPictoXL
Valentin Glushko
Certainly! Here are some brief facts about Valentin Petrovich Glushko: Valentin Petrovich Glushko (1908–1989) was a Soviet rocket engineer and designer. He is known for his significant contributions to the development of liquid-fueled rocket engines in Russia and the Soviet Union. Glushko played a crucial role in the design and testing of engines used in various space rockets, including those that launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite. His work laid foundational […]
Adam Walker hat mit einem Seminar zu #WilliamBlake begonnen. Durchaus eine Hilfe um z.B. tiefer in die großen (okkulten, spirituellen, philosophischen) Themen von #AlanMoore|s »Jerusalem« (2016; Deutsch bei #CarcosaVerlag 2024) einzutauchen.
Göttliches (Schöpfer*in) und Menschliches (Geschöpfe) teilen und sind miteinander verbunden durch: Vorstellungskraft (Imagination).
Meine Art von frühromantischen Nonkonformisten-Christentum.
Today in Labor History January 11, 1804: The Sussex Examiner reported that the English authorities tried poet & painter William Blake for saying “Damn the king and damn his soldiers.” Blake was both religious and hostile to the Church & organized religion. His poetry often embodied rebellion against class power. He disdained the blighting and impoverishing effects of the Industrial Revolution. He despised slavery and was a proponent of free love. Some consider him an early proponent of what would later be called anarchism.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #williamblake #poetry #painting #art #books #writing #author #slavery #freelove #freespeech #censorship #anarchism @bookstadon
Edvard Munch
Okay, here are a few short facts about Edvard Munch: The "The Scream": Munch is most famous for his painting The Scream (1893), a powerful and iconic image of anxiety and existential dread. Expressionist Pioneer: He is considered a key figure in the development of Expressionism, an art movement that sought to express subjective emotions and experiences rather than objective reality. Personal Trauma: Munch’s life was marked by personal tragedy, including the deaths of his mother and […]
Atheism and stoicism
People try to get away from it all—to the country, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish that you could too. Which is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like. By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful—more free of interruptions—than your own soul. Especially if you have other things to rely on. An instant’s recollection and there it is: complete tranquillity. And by tranquillity I mean a kind of harmony. So keep getting away from it all—like that. Renew yourself. But keep it brief and basic. A quick visit should be enough to ward off all [anxiety] and send you back ready to face what awaits you.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book IV
I remember that when I was in my early twenties and living in London, I was sometimes obliged to go to parties, as often happens at that age! I say “obliged” because that is how it often felt; I am too much of an introvert really to enjoy parties, however much I liked the people who’d invited me. Oddly, it was amidst the over-loud music and the chatter of slightly tipsy people that I spontaneously discovered what Marcus Aurelius describes here: the ability to turn inward, briefly, to a place of stillness and absolute tranquility – sitting on the stairs for a minute, perhaps, or taking refuge in the bathroom.
Remember, this is a blog post – I don’t mean it to be any more than another of my road songs – but it has occurred to me recently that Stoic philosophy is another of those things that has been unjustly neglected over the years of Christendom, having largely been discarded in the medieval period as just another of those pagan ideas (see Catherine Nixey’s The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World).
Not only though, I recalled, had I long ago discovered for myself Marcus Aurelius’ “micro-contemplative” moments, but I had much later found that the philosophy of Stoicism runs remarkably close to the practice of choiceless awareness in Sōtō Zen, in Advaita Vedānta, or in the philosophy of Jiddu Krishnamurti. There is an old Buddhist saying to the effect that “pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional”. Stoicism is far from the emotionless indifference it is sometimes caricatured to be, but it does imply almost exactly the same approach to suffering as that old Buddhist adage.
Severe illness is not something we have control over. We can mitigate the symptoms or use healing therapies hoping that the patient recovers. But the results are not up to us. Nevertheless, the patient can decide which position they take in regards to the situation. When the sickness is fully accepted, and the possibility of death as well, a human being can reach a state of inner peace (this is not medical advice – it’s philosophy). Staying calm during adversity, and letting go of the results, may come across as indifferent. However, this tranquility helps us to act in agreement with reason, instead of being overwhelmed by emotion. This probably leads to making better choices which increases the chances of recovery.
Einzelgänger and Fleur Vaz, Stoicism for Inner Peace
Absent the insistence of religious creeds and the framework they impose on belief and the interpretation of experience, the doors of perception are free to open once the power of powerlessness becomes clear. As I wrote in that post last year, “The power of shikantaza is simply powerlessness, giving up, complete acceptance of what is without looking for anything. When you cease to try to open the doors, they open by themselves, quite quietly. Not looking, the path opens.”
#atheism #awareness #CatherineNixey #contemplative #Einzelgänger #FleurVaz #MarcusAurelius #philosophy #stoicism #WilliamBlake
Doors
There is something about doors. They are curiously inevitable. Largely unchanged long into history, they can let their users in or out, keep them safe or keep them prisoner; let them rest or let them run.
Our senses are only the doors of our perception; what we see or hear is as much story as data. Turn off the processing, the algorithms of interpretation that make us who we are, and the crazy lights of elsewhere will threaten to wipe all we ever knew like words written in the steam across a bathroom window. That’s the hope and the fear of psychedelics; but we cannot know what is real by simply breaking down the doors of what it is to be human.
All we are is the infinitely delicate pattern our minds trace on the fields and particles of our fleeting scrap of what is there. Beneath it all the ground holds, beyond beginning or end. The doors we are given are ways in to what is real, our own dear and transitory lives; they let us in, not shut us out. Stillness, patience, the gentle breath: these are the ways to the fields of wonder, the steadiness of being.
#AldousHuxley #consciousness #contemplative #persistence #stillness #WilliamBlake
"How do you know but every bird That cuts the airy way Is an immense world of delight Closed by your senses five?" - William Blake, 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (Picture is the title page from the 1790 edition) #BookWormSat #WilliamBlake
If there is hope for film-making, it is somewhere else.
Hollywood has long become a mere industry
in the "dark Satanic mills" sense.
And to repeat the well-known, monopolies and oligopolies are BAD.
But it has all been said before.
If I had the time, I would watch again
The Player
and
S1m0ne
and then to cheer myself up,
François Truffaut's
Day for Night
("American Night", La Nuit Américaine).
"Ars Gratia Artis",
gone with the wind...
From the BBC:
Hollywood panics as Paramount-Netflix battle for Warner Bros
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dyy47qy82o>
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