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Current Issue: Volume 34, Fall Preparatory Issue, Week of August 24, 2008
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Peace Begins with Respect

Image drawn as a variation on Ari Kletzky's traffic signs. Ref: http://oldweb.uwp.edu/academic/criminal.justice/pblspari01.htm Kletzky wants to post signs on traffic islands to remind us to think and talk to one another. I want to post them everywhere. jeanne.

Talk to Each Other

 

California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Created: August 26, 2008
Latest Update: August 26, 2008
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Topic of the Week:

Sound Bite Ads Lead Straight to
Hirschman's Rhetoric of Reaction or
Shouting at Each Other at the Top of Our Lungs

  • Introduction

    I'm so discouraged after the pleasure of watching the Olympics with the switch to the National Conventions. Hey, they lied in Beijing. Some of the athletes were doping. Some were not qualified in other ways. But there was an atmosphere of humane treatment of the Other, even when we disagreed with the scores, and even when we weren't content with the explanations for what seemed wrong.

    Yes, China did send off an elderly (harrumph, I'm in my seventies) couple to re-education for asking to protest the government's compensation when it took their home for "development." Sure, things weren't perfect. But it was a good example of us all trying to get along. We could be happy for the Other as well as for us. Such joy on Usain Bolt's face! Yeah, he might have dissed his fellow competitiors, but it was much more in the spirit of I DID IT! than in the spirit of YOU COULDN'T DO IT!

    Now, come the conventions, specializing in sound bites that rely on knowingness, arrogance, and self promotion. Oh my goodness, where is Hirschman?

Announcements:

Issues

  • Sound Bites Encourage Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest

    Don't fall for it. The problem with sound bites: see Hirschman.

Visual Sociology

  • Clyfford Still (1904-1980), Abstract Painter, American

    Clyfford Still. 28 x 40 in. Serigraph.1964. You can buy a print of it from Art.com. . . . Clyfford the Cat. jeanne's first attempt at recording what made her think of Clyfford Still's paintings when she met Clyfford the Cat. You can make your own print from here. jeanne
    Clyfford Still. 28 x 40 in. Serigraph.1964. . . . Clyfford the Cat, after Clyfford Still

    When he was first brought to us from the shelter, I was amazed by his nose. It was neither pink nor black, but a delightful splash of black on pink. What a delightful homage to Clyfford Still!

    In this poster one of our neighbors made when she found him (on his first foray to explore the neighborhood when he was anxiously reported as lost to Home Again), I've enlarged his nose to show you what inspired me. jeanne

    Clyfford the Cat's Found Poster . . . Clyfford the Cat's Painted Nose

    jeanne's first attempt to paint Clyfford's Nose with a mouse.
    How Clyfford's nose inspired jeanne's first digital painting of him.
    Yes, he is a him, not a her.

    . . . and Clyfford's stint as a poster child for social justice:

    Clyfford the Cat's Painted Nose

  • Waiting and Hoping

    Necklace knitted after a Nicky Epstein pattern. My solace as the Olympics ended. jeanne

    Art can sponsor peace. jeanne
    Necklace knitted after a Nicky Epstein pattern.


    Art and knitting were my solace as the Olympics ended. jeanne

  • At the convention I'll be hoping for some published photos of respect for the Other. Would appreciate if you'd all send images you think illustrate this. jeanne

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