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Sens and Miller Dig Into Dixie; Roth Calls Gilberth's Good, But Unpolished; Unterman Swoons Over Market & Rye's BLT
Basically, no one likes the surroundings at Dixie, but the food is pretty good.
Bauer Thinks Dixie's Service, Decor Out of Synch with Menu
Bauer gives Dixie's food mixed reviews but says other aspects of the restaurant need work.
Bauer Impressed By Central Kitchen, Can't Handle the Music; Hirsch Calls Dixie 'Manly' But Balanced
Mr. Bauer bestows a mere two and a half stars on the Mission's big spring opener.
Stafford Calls Dixie 'Terrific'; Bauer Revisits Maverick
Bauer keeps Maverick at 2.5 stars.
First Look at Dixie (and Its Menu), Opening Today in the Presidio
We finally get a look at the southern-inspired menu from chef Joseph Humphrey.
Dixie and Transit Café Opening in the Presidio
Dixie arrives right after Memorial Day, May 29.
Dixie Still Aiming for Late May
The new Presidio restaurant from chef Joseph Humphrey is finally close.
Big Restaurants Are Back in S.F.; Singing the Praises of Miso
• With the upcoming opening of Joseph Humphrey's 10,000-square-foot (!) Dixie in the Presidio, and the early success of the spacious AQ, the Business Times says big restaurants are back. [Biz Times] • Following on Kauffman's review of State Bird...
Atelier Crenn Adds More Pairings; Wo Hing Adds Bar Stools; and More
Also, the Dixie preview dinners have been extended.
Dixie Delayed, But There Will Be Preview Dinners in January
See the full menus for a series of dinners at Guest Chef in Oakland.
An Update on Dixie, Which Might Make It Open Before New Year's
The new restaurant from former Murray Circle chef Joseph Humphrey is coming along.
Joseph Humphrey's Dixie On Its Way to the Presidio
The former Meadowood and Murray Circle chef reveals more about his plans.
Joseph Humphrey's New Project Gets a Name: Dixie
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New South Sydney coach Michael Maguire puts his charges through a gruelling pre-season
- From: The Daily Telegraph
- December 10, 2011
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MICHAEL Maguire is reluctant to talk Melbourne. The new Souths coach said he'd rather not reminisce.
You'd think talking up Billy Slater and how his pre-season training reflected the Storm's winning culture wouldn't be such an issue - but Maguire has a different take.
While he's obviously proud of what he learned working under Craig Bellamy at the Storm, he said now was not the time to reflect because now was the future.
"The big thing I want to talk about is where I am at now," Maguire explained.
"I don't really want to talk about where I have been. I have been lucky enough to have my time there - but now it's about this group and trying to work hard to improve this group.
"I'm not really going to change my line on that."
Which makes perfect sense, except ... well, right now, the past just might point to the future when it comes to how Maguire will change a struggling culture that has festered for far too long at Souths.
When Russell Crowe swept to power the one thing he promised was success - but it's been slow coming.
After making some early progress, and compiling a star-studded roster, the one place Souths failed to move forward is on the NRL table.
In the past four seasons they are the only side not to make the finals.
Which brings us back to the job Maguire has ahead of him this summer - and why what he learned in Melbourne under Bellamy could be the key to unlocking the future at Redfern.
The word coming out of Souths is that pre-season training has never been tougher.
Which is a wonderful sign, according to Matty Johns, who worked alongside Maguire at Melbourne - and knows this time of the year is when premierships are often won and lost.
"Pre-seasons are absolutely essential," Johns explained.
"I do look at some clubs and it looks like they are trying to reinvent the wheel. They try to do things differently and put it under the umbrella 'We are training a little bit smarter this year'. But when I hear that from a rugby league team, alarm bells ring.
"Put it this way, there are a lot of teams who try to go through an off-season and keep their players relatively fresh.
"And they are doing it under the guise, don't worry, we'll peak in September.
"But there are three coaches in the league and it is universally known that they train their teams the hardest.
"Those three blokes are Wayne Bennett, Craig Bellamy and Des Hasler.
"Now, if you have a look at the results of those blokes over the last five years, why the hell has anyone tried to do anything differently?"
But the word coming out of Souths is that this rookie coach is old school when it comes to pre-season and while Maguire is reluctant to talk Melbourne the Rabbitohs players are quickly learning that there is no substitute for hard work.
Everything you hear about this coach is positive - and even though it's Maguire's first stint as an NRL head coach, his success at Wigan has earned him instant respect with his players.
When Mark Riddell came back to the NRL last year after playing under Maguire one of the things he said was that he'd never been fitter in his life.
As Johns explained, it's a promising sign because hard work always brings its own luck.
"I read a really good article about the old Broncos trainer, a fella called Kelvin Giles," Johns said. "He was the man who really changed how rugby league looked at its training and how we looked at the dynamics of our sport.
"Kelvin was incredibly critical of how we train a lot of modern day athletes - and he's not just talking about rugby league, he's talking across the board.
"Kelvin said sports science had brought all codes and all sports ahead light years. However, he said, there are people out there, and it is the majority, who are using sports science as a crutch ... as a reason not to push athletes to the edge of their capabilities.
"Now Kelvin has trained Olympic athletes and everything, and he said the most professional blokes he ever trained in his life were the Brisbane Bronco sides of the early 1990s - because he said those blokes turned up every day.
"Some were covered in dirt, some covered in cement. He said back in those days they didn't have GPS machines to put on the back to see how much load the players have had during the day. And he said I never asked them; What was your day work-wise? I just told them what they had to do and they went and did it.
"He said Wayne Bennett gave him the brief when Kelvin went to the Broncos, he said to Bennett what do you want me to do.
"And Bennett said: 'Kelvin, put steel in them'.
"Now Wayne, Craig Bellamy and Des Hasler are still doing that every off-season, but there are a lot of clubs that aren't.
"Everyone looks at Billy Slater and they say: 'Oh, Billy Slater, he's a genius footballer'.
"But let me tell you, that bloke trains his ring out.
"He wins the sprints, he wins the distant runs, he trains his arse off in the gym.
"Those individuals in those teams, there is a reason why they are successful. It's what they put in. This is when elite athleticism is meeting mental toughness. Now mental is something that can be taught during an off-season and it can be pushed into players."
Maguire is guarded when it comes to talking up what he hopes to achieve at Souths in his first year in charge.
He doesn't talk the past - and he doesn't talk premierships.
"We're aware of what South Sydney the name means and at the end of the day I think that is a good tag to have to be honest," Maguire said. "We're lucky to be a part of a place that has got so much history but now it is up to us to try and improve the place.
"I want to see improvement across everyone in the pre-season and if we can do that, hopefully we are heading in the right direction.
"That is probably the biggest thing I said to the players, we just want to continually work hard to try and improve as a group and we will see where it takes us."
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Conn Smythe was the principal owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey league (NHL) from 1927 to 1961. His famous credo was "If you can't beat 'em in the alley, you can't beat 'em on the ice." In his memoir, he describes it as the most misunderstood remark he ever made. Rather than meaning that his players should go out and bully the opposition, he meant the opposite, that his players should refuse to be bullied by the opposition.
Prior to Game 6 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday night at STAPLES Center, Smythe's credo should be recited, over and over again, by players and coaches alike, in the locker room of the defending NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers.
The Lakers must win Tuesday's Game 6 to avoid elimination and deny the Boston Celtics their 18th NBA title. In their Game 5, 92-86 loss, on Sunday in Boston, the Lakers were out run, out hustled, out muscled and simply out worked by the much-hungrier Celtics.
For the first time in this postseason, the Lakers trail in a playoff series. They have not been in this kind of territory since last year's postseason series against the Houston Rockets.
More importantly, 80% of the time that a team wins the fifth game in an NBA Finals, after the series has been tied at 2-2; that team (now having gone up 3-2) has gone on to win the NBA championship.
Let's look at some statistics from Game 5:
The Celtics won Game 5 by winning the battle for 'hustle' points. Boston outscored the Lakers 14-3 in fast break points, and had a commanding 46-32 advantage on points in the paint.
Despite Kobe Bryant's spectacular 3rd quarter performance, the Celtics were able to offset that. Bryant scored the Lakers first 19 points after half-time, but the Celtics made 9 of their first 11 shots, and outscored the Lakers 28-26 in the quarter.
Whichever team has controlled the boards has won each game thus far. In Game 5, though the Celtics won the rebound battle by just one, 35-34, it was their domination of the defensive boards, 28-18, which worked to their advantage. This helped get their fast break started, and limited the Lakers second chance opportunities.
The Lakers 86 points is their lowest point total in the 2010 postseason.
The Lakers shot a wretched 31-78 (40%) from the field, while the Celtics went 40-71 (56%).
The Lakers poor shooting failed to take advantage of a 16-7 edge in offensive rebounds.
The Lakers had just 12 assists on their 31 field goals. Boston had 21 assists.
The Lakers went to the line twice as many times as their opponent, but failed to capitalize on it. The Lakers shot 17-26 (65%) at the charity stripe, while Boston went 9-13.
Boston had a commanding edge in blocked shots 7-1 (the Celts blocked 3 of Pau Gasol's 12 shots), and used that to their advantage. If you recall, in Game 2, the Lakers set an NBA Finals record of 14 blocks, but lost the game 103-94.
Speaking of Gasol, he was the only other Laker, other than Kobe, to score in double figures. The Spaniard finished with 12 points and 12 boards, but shot just 5-12 from the field. The Celtics had 4 of their five starters finish in double figures, led by Paul Pierce's 27 points (12-21 FG).
Ron Artest continued his dismal Finals performance, failing to contain Pierce, and continuing to take ill-advised shots. The forward shot 2-9 from the field.
The Lakers bench continued their struggles. They finished with 14 points, 8 of which came from Lamar Odom.
Boston had 7 of their 9 players finish on the positive side of the ledger in +/- points. The Lakers Lamar Odom was the only Laker to finish on the positive side in +/- points. Plus/minus points is the differential of points scored by your team, as opposed to the other team, when you are on the court.
Looking at some statistics through the series thus far:
The Lakers are averaging 92.4 points in the series. That is significantly lower than their 101.7 ppg average during the regular season.
The Lakers are averaging 14.8 assists vs. the Celtics. During the regular season, the Lakers averaged 21.1 assists per game.
The Lakers 29% 3 point field goal average in the series which is down from their 34% average during the regular season. The Celtics are averaging 32% from beyond-the-arc in the series.
The Lakers are averaging 6.4 blocks to Boston's 3.8 per game.
Kobe Bryant is 14-37 from 3-point range vs. Boston, and 35-38 from the free throw line.
Pau Gasol's 21 offensive rebounds through 5 games leads all players. Ron Artest and Andrew Bynum are the next leading Lakers with 9 each. Boston's Kendrick Perkins leads the Celtics with 14.
Derek Fisher is 16-43 from the field and 0-8 from 3-point range. He is a near flawless 14-15 from the free throw line.
Ron Artest is 13-43 from the field, and 6-19 from 3-point range vs. the Celtics. He is shooting 7-15 from the free throw line.
Jordan Farmar is 7-19 from the field and 2-8 from 3-point land in the series.
The Celtics Ray Allen is a perfect 16-16 on his free throws. His teammate, Kevin Garnett is 16-18 from the free throw line.
For the Lakers to remain alive to even see a Game 7, they have to take high percentage shots, limit their 3-point shooting, control the boards, limit their turnovers, cut way down on the Celtics points scored off transition, go after every loose ball, play with hunger and desire for the full 48 minutes, get substantial contributions from their bench, which thus far in the series, has been missing in action (M.I.A.). They need to look back on what worked for them so well in their victories in Games 1 and 3. And they need to find a way to stop the momentum and confidence that the Celtics have, now holding a 3 games to 2 edge, having won 3 of the last four games.
Most importantly, they have to get back to what they said they needed to do at the start of the Finals: play physical, get the ball inside to Gasol, Bynum (for whatever minutes they can get from him), and Odom (who must play with emotion and a positive energy). Perhaps Lakers Head Coach Phil Jackson should consider inserting seldom used center DJ Mbenga for brief stints, to pose a physically intimidating presence.
Putting into practice and paraphrasing the words of Conn Smythe, might just be a good place to start. With their backs against the wall, in Game 6, when it comes to the Boston Celtics; if the Lakers can't beat 'em in the alley, they can't beat 'em on the court.


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PS3 Firmware 2.30 for April 15 release, says SCEJ
The latest edition of PS3's Firmware, 2.30, will be released on April 15, according to this XtremePS3 report. The site's carrying a rough translation of a Japanese announcement on the SCEJ site, which says:
Sony PlayStation 3 online service will be renewed on April 15th, 2008 (Tuesday) evening. This will renew and expand the store by adding functionality described below:
- New interface and navigation improvements
- Preview video content using still images
- New download categories added
After the update, PS3 System Software 2.30 will be available.
The new PS Store will be released at the same time. Although not explicitly announced, you can assume this will be a global affair. We're just checking with SCEE.
Update: Here's the Japanese press release.
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Grey's Clipboard: What's wrong with Ryan Howard?
Updated: May 9, 2008, 6:42 PM ETBy Jason Grey | ESPN.com
.221 and three homers. Those are the numbers Ryan Howard put up in April 2007, as Matthew Berry noted in his defense of his top 340 list. So Ryan hitting .165 with six homers to start this season shouldn't be a huge concern in the grand scheme of the full season, right?
My gut tells me Howard gets the benefit of the doubt based on what he has done the past two seasons and he should be just fine going forward. Honestly, though, my eyes are overruling my gut right now.
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Friends and family gathered to say goodbye to the music producer and reality star in a short service on Friday
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Gaikai teams up with Bigfoot Networks for better PC game streaming
Cloud gaming firm Gaikai's announced an agreement with PC hardware company Bigfoot Networks that will allow Bigfoot's products, which include gaming-oriented PC networking cards and Wi-FI adapters for notebooks, to work with Gaikai's servers. When a Bigfoot Networks PC goes to a Gaikai-powered website, it "automatically recognizes the Gaikai service, delivering an unmatched cloud gaming experience."
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Okey Ndibe (born 1960) is a novelist, political columnist, and essayist. Of Igbo ethnicity, Ndibe was born in Yola, Nigeria. He is the author of Arrows of Rain and Foreign Gods, Inc., two critically acclaimed novels published in 2000 and 2014 respectively. Ndibe is one of the foremost respected and admired contributors to the social and political essence of Nigeria or lack of it.
Early life[edit]
Okey Ndibe was born in Yola, Nigeria.[1] His father was a postal worker, and his mother a teacher. His early life in Nigeria was marked by the Biafran War, a subject that he later wrote about in an essay entitled "My Biafran Eyes". At the end of the Biafran War, he finished his elementary school education in the town of Enugwu Ukwu and attended St. Michael's Secondary School, Nimo, in Anambra State, Nigeria.
Ndibe worked in Nigeria as a journalist and magazine editor, and came to the United States in 1988 at the invitation of famous Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. In the United States, Ndibe helped to found African Commentary, a magazine described as "award-winning and widely acclaimed".[2] Ndibe holds both an MFA in writing and a PhD in literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst He continued to write for magazines and papers in the United States, winning the 2001 Association of Opinion Page Editors award for best opinion essay in an American newspaper for his piece Eyes to the Ground: The Perils of the Black Student.[citation needed]
Ndibe has worked as a professor at several colleges, including Connecticut College, Bard College at Simon's Rock, Trinity College Connecticut, and currently Brown University.
Ndibe is an author of short fiction, novels, poetry and political commentary. He is a regular columnist for NEXT, a Nigerian newspaper. He also contributes to many other publications, including The Hartford Courant, The Fabian Society Journal, Black Issues Book Review, BBC Online[3] He has contributed poetry to An Anthology of New West African Poets. His first novel is entitled Arrows of Rain. His second novel, Foreign Gods, Incorporated, was published by SOHO Press in 2014.
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His fiction has been praised by Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka ("...quite a while since I sensed creative promise on this level"), John Edgar Wideman ("first rate fiction"), Ngugi wa Thiong'o ("Moliere-like"), Janet Maslin of the New York Times ("razor-sharp"), Los Angeles Times ("Ndibe seems to have a boundless ear for the lyrical turns of phrase of the working people of rural Nigeria"), and Paste magazine ("just about perfect"), among many others. Janet Maslin, the Philadelphia Inquirer, National Public Radio, Mosaic magazine, Cleveland Plain Dealer, among others, named Foreign Gods, Inc. one of the best 10 or most remarkable books of 2014. The Houston, Texas-based USAfricaonline.com named Ndibe its "African Writer of 2014". Ndibe is co-editor (with the Zimbabwean writer Chenjerai Hove) of a collection of essays entitled Writers, Writing on Conflicts and Wars in Africa (Adonis Abbey, 2009). Ndibe relocated to the United States in 1988 to serve as founding editor of African Commentary, a magazine described as "award-winning and widely acclaimed." Ndibe's essay, "My Biafran Eyes," about his childhood experience of war, is published in Best of the Web 2008 (Dzanc Books). His poetry is published in New West African Poets, edited by the Gambian writer Tijan Sallah. Ndibe has taught at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, Simon's Rock of Bard College in Great Barrington, MA, Connecticut College, New London, CT, and the University of Lagos (as a Fulbright scholar). He is currently working on a novel titled Return Flights as well as a memoir, Going Dutch and other American Mis/Adventures.
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Amor Mundi 10/11/15
Hannah Arendt considered calling her magnum opus Amor Mundi: Love of the World. Instead, she settled upon The Human Condition. What is most difficult, Arendt writes, is to love the world as it is, with all the evil and suffering in it. And yet she came to do just that. Loving the world means neither uncritical acceptance nor contemptuous rejection. Above all it means the unwavering facing up to and comprehension of that which is.
Every Sunday, The Hannah Arendt Center Amor Mundi Weekly Newsletter will offer our favorite essays and blog posts from around the web. These essays will help you comprehend the world. And learn to love it.
The Importance of Being Honest
A.O. Scott makes an argument for snobbery, which is to say that he makes an argument for taste: "It seems to be an article of modern democratic faith that disputing taste is taboo: at best a lapse in manners, at worst an offense against feelings or social order (which sometimes seem to amount to the same thing). Our nation is at present riven by social inequality and polarized by ideology, but the last thing anyone wants to be called is an elitist. That epithet has a political sting that the old one lacked, and 'snob' is not wielded as readily as it used to be. Instead of food snobs--or 'gourmets,' as they once called themselves--we now have foodies. Literary snobbery died when Jonathan Franzen fell out with Oprah and conquered the best-seller list anyway. The hot narrative art form of the moment, television, is genetically immune to snobbery. For most of modern history, the only way to be a TV snob was not to own a set. (Or maybe to say that you only watched PBS, not that anyone would have believed you.) The arrival of 'serious,' 'difficult' cable dramas and spiky, insidery comedies has not changed the essentially populist character of the medium. We all have our binge watches, our guilty pleasures, and our relationship to them is less exclusive than evangelical. Television is horizontal rather than hierarchal. And the flowering of television coincides with the digital transformation of cultural consumption, a great leveling force that turns a forbidding landscape of steep crags and hidden valleys into a sunlit plain of equivalence. The world of the Yelp score, the Amazon algorithm and the Facebook thumb is a place of liking and like-mindedness, of niches and coteries and shared enthusiasms, a Utopian zone in which everyone is a critic and nobody is a snob because nobody's taste can be better than anyone else's. That's the theory, anyway. But permit me a moment of dissent, even if I risk looking like a reactionary nostalgist." The loss of snobbery is a part of what Hannah Arendt worried about with regards to the end of judgment. Arendt was hardly an elitist in the traditional sense of an inherited or moneyed elite. But she did insist that a meaningful public sphere that can inspire many and last over time feeds upon the doing of deeds that are and deserve to be talked about by others.
Nobel and the Non-Fiction Novel
Philip Gourevitch introduces this year's Nobel Prize winner for literature, Svetlana Alexievich: "In a brief manifesto, 'In Lieu of Biography,' on her Web site, Alexievich argues that in our time--'when man and the world have become so multifaceted and diversified'--reportorial documentation is the best means of representing reality, while 'art as such often proves impotent.' And, having written five books from documentary material in the course of twenty years, she goes on to say, 'I declare that art has failed to understand many things about people.' Alexievich, you see, is a reporter--she started out, in her native Belarus, writing for newspapers--and her books are woven from hundreds of interviews, in a hybrid form of reportage and oral history that has the quality of a documentary film on paper. But Alexievich is anything but a simple recorder and transcriber of found voices; she has a writerly voice of her own which emerges from the chorus she assembles, with great style and authority, and she shapes her investigations of Soviet and post-Soviet life and death into epic dramatic chronicles as universally essential as Greek tragedies. So it is precisely because her work renders meaningless the distinction she draws between documentation and art that she is now the first full-time, lifelong journalist to win the literature prize."
Fireside Chats
Brian Hanrahan remembers an unexpected figure in the history of children's radio: "Of all mass media, radio has always had the least developed relation to children. The history of film or photography, of TV or the Internet, could hardly be written without reference to the child: images of children, children as audience and market, children's actual or hysterically invoked vulnerability. But radio has always been an overwhelmingly adult phenomenon Of course, there has long been broadcast radio aimed at children. There were kids' serials in the American network golden age, cozy British stuff like Listen with Mother in the 1960s, various kinds of educational radio. There are Sirius satellite channels, and Radio TEDDY, a German children's broadcaster, still transmits on the airwaves. But all this--and even radio hardware marketed to children--is a small and relatively unimportant part of radio as a historical phenomenon. Moreover, radio's relation to children is indirect, even uncanny: for children, radio is above all something addressed to grown-ups, but they can overhear it, or listen in on it. Radio, in this way, becomes a channel to a world beyond the home. Voices and sounds from the radio bring traces of a different life into the cloistered spaces of childhood and family. Any serious history of children and radio--any history going beyond a chronicle of program offerings--must include the German writer Walter Benjamin. Benjamin wrote extensively for the radio, and most of those broadcast writings--now newly translated and collected--were written for children, at least at first glance. More than that, something quintessentially Benjaminian happens in that uncanny encounter of radio and child: the hint of an unsettling remainder in the everyday, in the dislocation of sent message and received meaning, in the figure of the child who knows something his parents do not."
The Lost Art of Disagreeing
Daniel Faggella finds it tragic that the debate around the dangers of artificial intelligence is so shallow and ideological. Considering the heated denunciations and defenses of Elon Musk's warning that "With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon," Faggella writes: "What I believe is tragic, is when a debate no longer serves the end of finding truth, or unearthing concerns / opportunities. One class of fruitless conversation comes in the form of mis-informed and close-minded dismissal of an idea. Advanced technologies are far from being the only domain in which such 'disagreement' squashes the possibilities of progress / assessment, but I believe that there hasn't been enough media-worthy attention on AI to bring this unfortunate facet of human nature out of hiding and into open debate, until now. A few minutes of Googling will unearth a good deal of articles and videos from those who do and those who do not consider AI to be a significant near-term threat. More often than I'd hope, the perspectives given are often 'clearly those who disagree aren't even sane.' A second class of fruitless conversation seems about as hard to avoid as the first, namely, the protection of our beliefs and the swaying of our opinions to further our own outcomes. Some of the most ardent backlash to Elon Musk's comments about AI came from those who are most heavily invested in developing AGI, or those who are 'rooting for the Singularity' in one way or another. Of course, there's positively nothing wrong with work on AGI, or with enthusiasm and interest in the Singularity... but someone invested in those domains is more likely to want to spit on concerns about technological progress."
In a review of Japanese novelist Minae Mizumura's book The Fall of Language in the Age of English, Haruo Shirane considers the fate of world literature in an Anglophone global culture: " In the medieval and early modern periods, transnational languages such as Latin, Arabic, or literary Chinese served as the language of high culture and technology; in the modern period, 'national languages' have taken on that role. However, unlike the premodern period, when there were multiple 'universal' (transnational, cosmopolitan) languages, or the modern period (late 19th and the first half of the 20th century for Japan), in which national languages and national literatures flourished, the present age has seen a single tongue become the one and only universal language. English's dominance in all spheres from science to literature is far greater than that of the earlier cosmopolitan languages such as Latin in medieval Europe, literary Chinese in East Asia, Arabic in the Middle East, or French in 19th-century Europe. Because there are now more literate people than at any other time in world history and because of new technologies that create global simultaneity on an unprecedented scale, English now penetrates every sphere. Much has been said recently about the growth of world literature in the age of globalization, but this has overwhelmingly come from those writing in English and/or dealing with literatures in the Romance languages. For example, Pascale Casanova's The World Republic of Letters ([1999] 2004) traces the rise and dominance of French language and literature; David Damrosch's What Is World Literature? (2003) examines the ways in which literature travels around the world, either in translation or from one language to another, often following trade routes. In secondary and higher education in the United States, the traditional canons of national literature have been expanded or broken up to include a larger corpus of literature from around the world. However, almost all of the literature dealt with in these studies is based on European languages, and these representatives of 'world literature' are read almost entirely in English translation. The assumptions of this Anglophone view of 'world literature' are reflected in the genres and texts that have been chosen by Anglophone critics and scholars to represent 'world literature.' Franco Moretti, for example, in his attempt to draw up a 'world literary' map, ends up focusing on such modern European-based themes and genres as the "rise of the novel." In most of Asia, the so-called novel was a minor genre, not even considered serious literature until the 19th century, mostly under the impact of the European novel, while poetry (particularly the lyric), historical writings (chronicles and biographies), and philosophical writing were central. Compared to educated Europeans, until the modern period, elite East Asians (especially Confucian literati) had a very low view of fiction, at least on the surface, and almost all canonical literary genres were thought to be direct reflections of individual or historical experience. In other words, the very notion of 'world literature' that has emerged in English largely reflects the modern European notion of literature as imaginative narrative, with particular emphasis on the epic, the novel, and the short story."
The Right Stuff
John Branch considers the meaning of a baseball word: "Baseball considers itself the most thoughtful of games, a pastime more than a sport, written about with reverence and lyricism, in which pitching is considered more art than athleticism. Yet the primary term used to explain the art of pitching, which often determines who wins and who loses, is an inelegant word of ill-defined mush. Stuff. 'Stuff is a big word in baseball,' said Roger Craig, who pitched for 12 seasons in the major leagues, beginning in 1955, and coached pitchers and managed for nearly 25 more. 'It's probably used more than any word that I can think of, especially in pitching.' Its use as a descriptor in baseball dates back more than a century. It is a word so ordinary that it avoids consideration as a cliché, hidden behind an ever-creative spectrum of modifiers: pure stuff, ace stuff, nasty stuff, hit-and-miss stuff, electric stuff, primary stuff, secondary stuff, top-rotation stuff. Stuff can be good, great, tremendous. Some pitchers have plus stuff. Some have more...The word is both meaningful and meaningless. There are no synonyms. Like pornography, stuff is defined mostly by example. And only pitchers have stuff. Hitters do not have stuff. 'Hitters got tools,' Dempster said. 'We never say the pitchers got tools. We say the pitchers got stuff.'"
Your Own Private Border Collie Yelping in Distress
Back in 2005 in the New Yorker (h/t Travis Wentworth), Jonathan Franzen responded to the Starr report with an essay on privacy, one that sounds deeply influenced by Hannah Arendt. On the one hand Franzen begins, we have more solitude and privacy than ever. "The 'right to be left alone'? Far from disappearing, it's exploding. It's the essence of modern American architecture, landscape, transportation, communication, and mainstream political philosophy." On the other hand, the dissolving boundary between the private and the public spheres threatens to eradicate the public sphere. "If privacy depends upon an expectation of invisibility, the expectation of visibility is what defines a public space. My 'sense of privacy' functions to keep the public out of the private and to keep the private out of the public. A kind of mental Border collie yelps in distress when I feel that the line between the two has been breached. This is why the violation of a public space is so similar, as an experience, to the violation of privacy. I walk past a man taking a leak on a sidewalk in broad daylight (delivery-truck drivers can be especially self-righteous in their 'Ya gotta go, ya gotta go' philosophy of bladder management), and although the man with the yawning fly is ostensibly the one whose privacy is compromised by the leak, I'm the one who feels the impingement.... Reticence, meanwhile, has become an obsolete virtue. People now readily name their diseases, rents, antidepressants. Sexual histories get spilled on first dates, Birkenstocks and cutoffs infiltrate the office on casual Fridays, telecommuting puts the boardroom in the bedroom, 'softer' modern office design puts the bedroom in the boardroom, sales people unilaterally address customers by their first name, waiters won't bring food until I've established a personal relationship with them, voice-mail machinery stresses the 'I' in 'I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you dialed,' and cyberenthusiasts, in a particularly groteseque misnomer, designate as 'public forums' pieces of etched silicon with which a forum's unshaved 'participant' may communicate while sitting crosslegged in tangled sheets. The networked world as a threat to privacy? It's the ugly spectacle of a privacy triumuphant." The Hannah Arendt Center conference "Why Privacy Matters" begins Thursday. ("Imperial Bedroom" was published in How To Be Alone. To order, click here. To read, click here).
The Ink of History
In a BBC series of video essays on the oak tree, we learn about the historical impact of the Gall wasp, which lays eggs in the buds of trees. In doing so, the wasps seemingly take over the genetic structure of the oak tree's flower so that instead of acorns, galls emerge that nourish young wasp larvae. "The myriad of different types of structures these wasps create for their offspring is simply staggering. But of all the weird and wonderful types of Oak Gall, there's one that has a strange connection with the human race. One type of Oak Gall has shaped our history. That's because for a thousand years it was the source of a special kind of ink with which nearly all our historical documents were written." The Magna Carta, Newton's scientific theories, Leonardo da Vinci's drawings, Mozart's music, Darwin's letters, and more were written in this oak-derived ink.
Featured Events
Please join us at The Hannah Arendt Center for the first Democratic Debate on Tuesday October 13th.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015
The Hannah Arendt Center, Time TBA
Resolved: "National security is more important than the individual right to privacy."
Please join us for an exciting public debate inspired by the topic of this year's Hannah Arendt Center Conference, "Why Privacy Matters." The debate will feature Bard Debate Union members, Bard College faculty, and cadets and faculty from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Free and Open to the Public
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room, 7:00pm
The Hannah Arendt Center's eighth annual fall conference, "Why Privacy Matters: What Do We Lose When We Lose Our Privacy?," will be held this year on Thursday and Friday, October 15-16, 2015! We'll see you there!
**UPDATE** Registration for our conference is NOW CLOSED except for on-site registration, which is subject to availability and will cost $45 for ALL interested parties except those of the Bard community.
We will be offering a live webcast to individuals who are interested in watching one or both days of the conference. To learn more, please click here.
Thursday, October 15 and Friday, October 16, 2015
Olin Hall, Bard College, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
No Word Breaks Into the Dark - The Poetry of Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt always returned to poetry and kept the language of German poems in her hinterkopf. For Arendt, poetry is the closest form we have to thought itself, bearing the burden of language and memory. It should then be no surprise that Arendt herself wrote poems.
The poems now appear in translation for the first time, edited and translated into English by Samantha Hill and into French by Karin Biro. Biro and Hill join us to read from their translations and discuss Arendt's poetry, the work of translation, and the place of poetry across Arendt's political and philosophical works.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015
The Hannah Arendt Center, 1:00 pm
Does Literature Become More Relevant When We Incorporate History, Science, and Other Elements of Change?
National Endowment for the Humanities/Hannah Arendt Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow DAVID BRIN is a scientist who has served as a NASA visiting scholar in exobiology. As a writer of science fiction, he has received the Nebula award, two Hugo awards, and four Locus awards, and has published books including Earth and The Postman. He is also the author of The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy?
Free and Open to the Public
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Bard Hall, Bard College, Time TBA
Albert Knoll, of the Dachau Archives, Will Be Honored as Archivist of the Year
The special event will take place in Manhattan on Oct. 26, 2015, 6.30pm, at the Bard Graduate Center at 38. West 86th Street, New York, NY, in conjunction with The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. The Introductory Presentation will be by Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann, author of the acclaimed, new book, KL: A History of the Concentration Camps.
Honoree Albert Knoll, b. 1958, has served the mission of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Museum since 1997. In addition to maintaining and expanding its archival work and databases, he has been instrumental in assisting relatives of former inmates as well as guiding researchers, scholars and authors around the world - including Awards Event speaker Nickolaus Wachsmann. Knoll has written articles on illegal photos, homosexual prisoners, contemporary Nazi press coverage of Dachau, etc, and contributed to the International Tracing Service's first scholarly yearbook. He has also organized international workshops on the gathering of data on all categories of National Socialist victims.
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Monday, October 26, 2015
Bard College Graduate Center, 38 West 86th Street, New York, NY, 6:30 pm
HAC Virtual Reading Group - Session #14
HAC members at all levels are eligible to participate in a monthly reading group led online via a telecommunication website by Roger Berkowitz, Director of the Hannah Arendt Center.
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From the Arendt Center Blog
This week on the Blog, Dawn Herrera Helphand considers how Pope Francis I's posture of humility resembles that of Roncalli, whose confidence as a follower of God Arendt sought to understand, in the Quote of the Week. Former Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat offers his comments on how one can change reality and make progress in this week's Thoughts on Thinking. Finally, we appreciate a member's personal Arendt library as well as her book "The Political Tradition in the Work of Hannah Arendt" in this week's Library feature.
Anwar el-Sadat on Changing Reality and Making Progress
"He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress."
— Anwar el-Sadat
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Anwar el-Sadat's Biography
Anwar Sadat, in full Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat, Sadat also spelled Sādāt, el-Sadat also spelled al-Sadat (born December 25, 1918, Mīt Abū al Kawm, Al-Minūfiyyah governorate, Egypt—died October 6, 1981, Cairo), Egyptian army officer and politician who was president of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination in 1981. He initiated serious peace negotiations with Israel, an achievement for which he shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for Peace with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Under their leadership, Egypt and Israel made peace with each other in 1979.
While Sadat's popularity rose in the West, it fell dramatically in Egypt because of internal opposition to the treaty, a worsening economic crisis, and Sadat's suppression of the resulting public dissent. In September 1981 he ordered a massive police strike against his opponents, jailing more than 1,500 people from across the political spectrum. The following month Sadat was assassinated by Muslim extremists during the Armed Forces Day military parade commemorating the Yom Kippur War.
To read additional Thoughts on Thinking, please click here.
(Biography sourced from Encyclopedia Britannica.)
Hannah Arendt and The Phenomenon of Life
On a recent trip to the Hannah Arendt Collection housed in Bard College's Stevenson Library, we came across this copy of The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology, a work of phenomenology and existentialism in which Hans Jonas argues that all biological facts support the prefiguring of the human mind throughout all organic existence:
Hannah Arendt made a number of annotations to her copy of this classic. For example, on page 148 in the section entitled "The Nobility of the Spirit," Arendt underlined three separate passages. These read as follows:
- "thus touch is the sense in which the original encounter with reality as reality takes place."
- "touch is the true test of reality..."
- "reality is disclosed in the same act and as one with the disclosure of my own reality..."
Off of this third marginalia, she draws a curving line to the top margin of the page, in the space of which she writes:
How about touching myself? Would it [unintelligible] me of the reality of my hands?
On the opposite page, Hannah Arendt underlines three passages, as well. The first reads as follows:
"Thus essence becomes separable from existence and therewith theory possible. It is but the basic freedom of vision...which are carried further in conceptual thought...."
The second passage observes that "causality is not a visual datum," whereas the final passage underlined on these two pages states,
"Vision, however, is not the primary but the most sublime case of sense perception...."
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Arendt on Humanity
Source: Globe Jotters
By Kazue Koishikawa
"[T]he public realm has lost the power of illumination which was originally part of its very nature.—[W]hat is lost is the specific and usually irreplaceable in-between which should have formed between this individual and his fellow men."
-- Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times
Arendt often points out that we live in a dark time in which the public realm is deteriorating. To be sure, the primal meaning of the public realm isn't a town, city, state, or nation for her. Rather, it is a space that emerges and is sustained only when we express our opinions, views, and concerns and share them with others. It exists between us. Our sense of reality owes to such in-betweeness, and that is the reason why Arendt puts so much emphasis on the importance of the political life. In other words, "politics" and the "political" have a much wider meaning for Arendt than what we usually understand in our daily lives.
Amor Mundi 3/1/15
Hannah Arendt considered calling her magnum opus Amor Mundi: Love of the World. Instead, she settled upon The Human Condition. What is most difficult, Arendt writes, is to love the world as it is, with all the evil and suffering in it. And yet she came to do just that. Loving the world means neither uncritical acceptance nor contemptuous rejection. Above all it means the unwavering facing up to and comprehension of that which is.
Every Sunday, The Hannah Arendt Center Amor Mundi Weekly Newsletter will offer our favorite essays and blog posts from around the web. These essays will help you comprehend the world. And learn to love it.
Amy Ireland is thinking about a genocide at the level of "genus-cide," the eradication of humanity itself. The threat is not weaponry but technology. And the exemplary precursor is the horse: "In the United States--where competition with the automobile was at its most intense--there were about 26 million horses in 1915. By the 1950s only 2 million remained." The question Ireland asks is whether humans are going the way of horses to be replaced by more efficient machines. Will artificially intelligent machines consume humans' fuel? "Far from being actively malevolent, an artificially intelligent agent endowed with enough power only needs to be indifferent to become a murderer. What are we, after all, but fuel? Atoms that can be freely disassembled and reassembled into something else - a thousand paperclip factories, for instance, or a massive supercomputer, capable of mathematical calculations we can't even begin to imagine in our current state of technological paucity. Even the clearly delimited goal of creating exactly one million paperclips can warrant the wasting of an entire planet, for a fully rational AI would never assign zero probability to the hypothesis that it has not yet achieved its goal.... There is something satisfying about imagining a malevolent artificial intelligence that actively wants to destroy us because it fears us, loathes us, or at least finds our existence frustrating and inconvenient. But the notion that something will destroy us out of sheer indifference is much harder to swallow because it forces us to consider the possibility of our utter insignificance. Bostrom surmises with all the level-headedness of a pure statistician that the odds against humanity's survival are overwhelmingly high. The default outcome of our construction of a single strong artificial intelligence is, quite plainly, extinction. His intention, naturally, is to raise awareness of the risks that lie behind this seemingly anodyne technological innovation and encourage governments, corporations or other entities that may one day attempt to build strong AI to implement rigorously tested control measures before letting the thing out of the box. All this is well and good, but it rests upon a deeper anthropomorphic supposition. What if the most radical gesture a flailing humanity can make at this juncture is not to increase its investment in security and control, but to pass it on? What if we are entangled in a larger evolutionary process that we never had control over in the first place? The real question then, might not be how to survive the construction of strong artificial intelligence but whether or not the survival of the human race is a good thing after all." Ireland is right to pose the question of "genus-cide," although her tone is a bit blithe. The threat is not the eradication of human beings but, as Arendt writes in The Human Condition, the loss of the human condition, those characteristics of being human like labor, work, action, and (sometimes) thinking. As Arendt writes, "This future man, whom the scientists tell us they will produce in no more than a hundred years, seems to be possessed by a rebellion against human existence as it has been given, a free gift from nowhere (secularly speaking), which he wishes to exchange, as it were, for something he has made himself. There is no reason to doubt our abilities to accomplish such an exchange."
Karl Ove Knausgaard was commissioned to travel from Sweden to the Viking's first settlement in Newfoundland and then drive across the United States in order to reflect on the state of America. In part one of his two-part "Saga," Knausgaard offers this insight into a specifically American form of poverty, the poverty of imagination and the abandonment of distinction: "I'd seen poverty before, of course, even incomprehensible poverty, as in the slums outside Maputo, in Mozambique. But I'd never seen anything like this. If what I had seen tonight--house after house after house abandoned, deserted, decaying as if there had been disaster--if this was poverty, then it must be a new kind poverty, maybe in the same way that the wealth that had amassed here in the 20th century had been a new kind of wealth. I had never really understood how a nation that so celebrated the individual could obliterate all differences the way this country did. In a system of mass production, the individual workers are replaceable and the products are identical. The identical cars are followed by identical gas stations, identical restaurants, identical motels and, as an extension of these, by identical TV screens, which hang everywhere in this country, broadcasting identical entertainment and identical dreams. Not even the Soviet Union at the height of its power had succeeded in creating such a unified, collective identity as the one Americans lived their lives within. When times got rough, a person could abandon one town in favor of another, and that new town would still represent the same thing. Was that what home was here? Not the place, not the local, but the culture, the general?"
Peter Railton gave the John Dewey Lecture at the American Philosophical Association Meeting this year, where amidst reflections on philosophical thinking, personal courage, and political activism, he offered a guileless and moving account of his personal struggle with depression. "And what of depression? Perhaps we all know the mask of depression, that frozen, affectless face we catch glimpses of on our students, colleagues, and friends. I can't do anything about that. But perhaps I can do something about the face of depression--its visible image in the minds of our children and parents, teachers and students. Because in truth, we are still to a considerable degree still in a world of 'Don't ask, don't tell' with regard to depression and associated mental disorders, such as anxiety, even though these will severely affect one in ten of us over the course of a lifetime, and often at more than one point in a lifetime. So there's nothing for it. Those whose have dwelt in the depths depression need to come out as well. Some already have, but far too few adult men (big surprise!), and especially far too few of the adult men who somehow have come to bear the stamp of respectability and recognition, and thus are visible to hundreds of students and colleagues. It's no big deal, right? We're all enlightened about this. Then why do the words stick in my throat when I tell you that another theme uniting the three episodes I have recounted from my life, and that has played an equally important role in shaping my philosophy, is that they were all accompanied by my depression. This moody high school student, this struggling protester, this anxious young faculty member--they were all me and they were all living through major depressive episodes at the time. And there have been other such episodes, some more recent. Thankfully, for me and especially for my family who have been through so much already, not right now. Did others know? I don't know. Some must have guessed--perhaps those who themselves had known depression in their lives could see the mask of depression upon my face. But the thing is: I couldn't say it. I couldn't say, 'Look, I'm dying inside. I need help.' Because that's what depression is--it isn't sadness or moodiness, it is above all a logic that undermines from within, that brings to bear all the mind's mighty resources in convincing you that you're worthless, incapable, unloveable, and everyone would be better off without you. Not a steely-eyed, careful critique from which one might learn, but an incessant bludgeoning that exaggerates past errors while ignoring new information, eroding even the ability to form memories. A young man once had the courage to tell me, 'My brain is telling me to kill myself, but my body is saying "no."' Happily, his body won. But it doesn't always. Every year, thousands of young men don't win the battle. We are captive audiences to our own minds, and it can become intolerable." Depression, Railton suggests, is still in the closet, and this causes untold pain at colleges, where, as a recent study shows, the mental health of college Freshmen is at an all-time low--something that will not surprise any of us who teach in this nation's colleges and universities.
In Railton's speech on depression discussed above, he also has this tidbit on meetings: "Oscar Wilde is still right--because the cost of building a society where the people have more say in how their lives are run is still many, many meetings. What is a meeting, after all, but people deliberating together with a capacity to act as a group that is more than just a sum of individual actions, and this sort of informed joint action is a precondition for significant social change. Come together, decide together, act together, and bear the consequences together. We must own our institutions or they will surely own us. As Aristotle told us, one becomes a citizen not by belonging to a polity or having a vote, but by shouldering the tasks of joint deliberation and civic governance. And there is no civic or faculty governance, no oversight of discrimination in hiring and promotion, no regulation of pollutants, no organization of faculty or students to initiate curricular reform, no mobilization by professional associations to protect their most vulnerable members or to promote greater diversity, no increased humaneness in the treatment of animals and human subjects, no chance to offset arbitrariness and bullying within offices and departments, no oversight of progress and revision of plans in response to changing circumstances, without actual people who care spending long hours in the work of planning, meeting, and making things happens. The alternative is for all these decisions to be made at the discretion of those on high--or not at all." At a moment when faith and participation in all institutions is rare and the pursuit of individual pursuits comparatively common, Railton's reminder of what Arendt calls the power of talking and acting together is worth heeding.
David Cole writes that the Senate Torture Report, when read in full, leads to fundamentally different conclusions than most of the headlines and early accounts suggest. Above all, the report blaming the CIA for lying may have missed the real story: "The full story is more complicated, and ultimately much more disturbing, than the initial responses--mine included--suggested. And because these documents may be the closest we come to some form of accountability, it is essential that we get the lessons right.... So why did the committee focus on efficacy and misrepresentation, rather than on the program's fundamental illegality? Possibly because that meant it could cast the C.I.A. as solely responsible, a rogue agency. A focus on legality would have rightly held C.I.A. officials responsible for failing to say no--but it also would have implicated many more officials who were just as guilty, if not more so. Lawyers at the Justice Department wrote a series of highly implausible legal memos from 2002 to 2007, opining that waterboarding, sleep deprivation, confinement in coffinlike boxes, painful stress positions and slamming people into walls were not torture; were not cruel, inhuman or degrading; and did not violate the Geneva Conventions. The same can be said for President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and all the cabinet-level officials responsible for national security, each of whom signed off on a program that was patently illegal. The reality is, no one in a position of authority said no. This may well explain the committee's focus on the C.I.A. and its alleged misrepresentations. The inquiry began as a bipartisan effort, and there is no way that the Republican members would have agreed to an investigation that might have found fault with the entire leadership of the Bush administration. But while the committee's framing may be understandable as a political matter, it was a mistake as a matter of historical accuracy and of moral principle. The report is, to date, the closest thing to official accountability that we have. But by focusing on whether the program worked and whether the C.I.A. lied, the report was critically misleading. Responsibility for the program lies not with the C.I.A. alone, but also with everyone else, up to the highest levels of the White House, who said yes when law and morality plainly required them to say no."
The Little Voice Inside Your Head
Adam Phillips worries about what's inside us: "We are never as good as we should be; and neither, it seems, are other people. A life without a so-called critical faculty would seem an idiocy: what are we, after all, but our powers of discrimination, our taste, the violence of our preferences? Self-criticism, and the self as critical, are essential to our sense, our picture, of our so-called selves. Nothing makes us more critical--more suspicious or appalled or even mildly amused--than the suggestion that we should drop all this relentless criticism, that we should be less impressed by it and start really loving ourselves. But the self-critical part of ourselves, the part that Freud calls the super-ego, has some striking deficiencies: it is remarkably narrow-minded; it has an unusually impoverished vocabulary; and it is, like all propagandists, relentlessly repetitive. It is cruelly intimidating--Lacan writes of 'the obscene super-ego'--and it never brings us any news about ourselves. There are only ever two or three things we endlessly accuse ourselves of, and they are all too familiar; a stuck record, as we say, but in both senses--the super-ego is reiterative. It is the stuck record of the past ('something there badly not wrong', Beckett's line from Worstward Ho, is exactly what it must not say) and it insists on diminishing us. It is, in short, unimaginative; both about morality, and about ourselves. Were we to meet this figure socially, this accusatory character, this internal critic, this unrelenting fault-finder, we would think there was something wrong with him. He would just be boring and cruel. We might think that something terrible had happened to him, that he was living in the aftermath, in the fallout, of some catastrophe. And we would be right." In other words, critical thinking is essential, but let's also recall that it is dangerous. All thinking is an attack on the status quo and the common world in which we live. That is what Arendt means when she wrote, "There are no dangerous thoughts. Thinking itself is dangerous." That doesn't mean we should stop thinking critically, but it does mean that thinking requires knowing when thinking is, and when it is not, needed. That is the moment of judgment.
Novelist Gary Shteyngart spent a week watching Russian television and living like a Russian oligarch: "Here is the question I'm trying to answer: What will happen to me--an Americanized Russian-speaking novelist who emigrated from the Soviet Union as a child--if I let myself float into the television-filtered head space of my former countrymen? Will I learn to love Putin as 85 percent of Russians profess to do? Will I dash to the Russian consulate on East 91st Street and ask for my citizenship back? Will I leave New York behind and move to Crimea, which, as of this year, Putin's troops have reoccupied, claiming it has belonged to Russia practically since the days of the Old Testament? Or will I simply go insane? A friend of mine in St. Petersburg, a man in his 30s who, like many his age, avoids state-controlled TV and goes straight to alternative news sources on the Internet, warns me in an email: 'Your task may prove harmful to your psyche and your health in general. Russian TV, especially the news, is a biohazard.' I'll be fine, I think. Russians have survived far worse than this. But, just in case, I have packed a full complement of anti-anxiety, sleep and pain medication."
Andy Greenwald considers what made the recently concluded sitcom Parks and Recreation successful and what it's legacy might be: "Art doesn't always have to be a dark mirror reflecting reality. It can and should also be a window, thrown open to let in every last bit of possible light. Parks and Recreation never quite resembled the real America. But every episode was imbued with the idea that maybe it could, if only we, the people, cared a little more and tried a little harder. The Wire, the greatest drama of the young 21st century, left us with a tough legacy to reckon with. Parks and Rec, the best comedy of that same century, gifted us with a beautiful model to which we can collectively aspire. I doubt the future will be as bleak as David Simon's vision for it or as rosy as Mike Schur's. The joy of being a TV fan is that we get to consider both. That's not a cop-out, by the way. That's a compromise, and one that even President Leslie Knope could accept. After all, Parks was built on the bedrock belief that opposing ideas could not only have merit, they could coexist. Like the show itself, it's an idea that sounds simple but in practice is anything but."
Lunchtime Talk with Ari-Elmeri Hyvonen, a Hannah Arendt Center Visiting Fellow
"Arendt's Critique of Modern Society as an Analysis of Process Imaginary"
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
The Hannah Arendt Center, 1:00 pm
Now Accepting Applications for Post-Doctoral Fellowships!
The Hannah Arendt Center announces three post-doctoral fellowships for the 2015-2016 academic year.
To learn more about the fellowships, including how to apply, click here.
Application Deadline: Thursday, March 5, 2015
HAC Virtual Reading Group - Session #5
HAC members at all levels are eligible to participate in a monthly reading group led online via a telecommunication website by Roger Berkowitz, Director of the Hannah Arendt Center.
For questions and to enroll in our virtual reading group, please email David Bisson, our Media Coordinator, at email@example.com.
Friday, March 6, 2015
Bluejeans.com, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lunchtime Talk with Angela Maione, our Klemens Von Klemperer Post-Doctoral Fellow
"Figuring Rights: Wollstonecraft and the Right to Political Community
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
The Hannah Arendt Center, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Film Screening, A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake and Director's Discussion by Michael Lessac
Synopsis: A diverse group of South African actors tours the war-torn regions of Northern Ireland, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia to share their country's experiment with reconciliation. As they ignite a dialogue among people with raw memories of atrocity, the actors find they must once again confront their homeland's violent past, and question their own capacity for healing and forgiveness.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Weis Cinema, Campus Center, 6:30 pm
Courage To Be: Lecture and Dinner Series, with Uday Mehta
Putting Courage at the Centre: Gandhi on Civility, Society and Self-Knowledge
Invite Only. RSVP Required.
Property and Freedom: Are Access to Legal Title and Assets the Path to Overcoming Poverty in South Africa?
A one-day conference sponsored by the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, the Human Rights Project, and the Center for Civic Engagement, with support from the Ford Foundation, The Brenthurst Foundation, and The University of The Western Cape
Monday, April 6, 2015
Bard College Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Courage To Be: Lecture and Dinner Series, with Jeanne Van Heeswijk, Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism
Invite Only. RSVP Required.
Thursday and Friday, October 15 and 16, 2015
The Hannah Arendt Center's eighth annual fall conference, "Privacy: Why Does It Matter?," will be held this year on Thursday and Friday, October 15-16, 2015! We'll see you there!
This week on the Blog, Johannes Lang explores the moral and political consequences of emotion entering into the public sphere in the Quote of the Week. American moral and social philosopher Eric Hoffer provides this week's Thoughts on Thinking. In a special feature, we recognize Aliza Becker, one of her Associate Fellows, and her creation of the American Jewish Peace Archive: An Oral History of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Activists (AJPA). And we appreciate Arendt's engagement with Saint Augustine's "Confessions" in our Library feature.
This coming Friday, March 6th, the Hannah Arendt Center will host the fifth session of its Virtual Reading Group. We will be discussing Chapters 10-13 of The Human Condition.
The reading group is available to all members and is always welcoming new participants! Please click here to learn more!
Hannah Arendt and the Political Dangers of Emotion
By Johannes Lang
"Whatever the passions and the emotions may be, and whatever their true connection with thought and reason, they certainly are located in the human heart. And not only is the human heart a place of darkness which, with certainty, no human eye can penetrate; the qualities of the heart need darkness and protection against the light of the public to grow and to remain what they are meant to be, innermost motives which are not for public display."
–Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (1963)
Since September 11, 2001, historians and social scientists have rediscovered the political relevance of emotion. In the current climate of war and terror, public discussion is suffused with references to fear, hatred, and patriotism. But what are the moral and political consequences when such passions enter the public sphere? One of the most famous political thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt, worried about the entry of emotion into politics. She scolded the French revolutionaries for having been carried away by their compassion for the poor and praised the American Founding Fathers for their aloof commitment to universal ideals and for their detached attitude to the suffering masses. Emotions may be important as subjective motives for individual action, Arendt granted, but they should neither be aired in public nor be made the basis for collective action. Emotions disfigure politics; political movements should be based on rational argument, not passion. Yet, as Volker Heins has pointed out, there was one thing Arendt feared more than the intrusion of emotions into politics: a politics completely devoid of emotion. The "ice-cold reasoning" and bureaucratic rationality she discerned behind the Holocaust was infinitely more terrifying than any other political pathology known to man. Arendt's deep ambivalence toward emotions confronts us with a fundamental question: What is the proper place of emotion in politics?
Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and the Importance of the Interior
By Hans Teerds
"The French have become masters in the art of being happy among 'small things,' within the space of their own four walls, between chest and bed, table and chair, dog and cat and flowerpot, extending to these things a care and tenderness which, in a world where rapid industrialization constantly kills off the things of yesterday to produce today's objects, may even appear to be the world's last, purely humane corner."
-- Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
During my first reading of Arendt's The Human Condition, this particular quote attracted my attention, probably since I'm trained as an architect and sensible to these kind of imaginable, tangible examples. (I must also mention the very nice and almost poetic rhythm in the 'construction' of the sentences quoted above). The passage immediately reminded me of the famous text "Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century," in which Walter Benjamin, among other things, links the importance of the domestic interior to the emerging impact of industrialization on the working people. Through the mutability of modernity, as symbolised by the arcades with their cast-iron constructions, Benjamin argues that the interior comes into conscious being to the extent that our life, work, and surroundings change. The interior of domestic life originates in the need for a place of one's own: a small but personal haven in a turbulent world that is subject to constant change.
Experience as an Anchor for Thinking
"[T]hese are exercises in political thought as it arises out of the actuality of political incidents (though such incidents are mentioned only occasionally), and my assumption is that thought itself arises out of incidents of living experience and must remain bound to them as the only guidepost by which to take its bearings."
-- Hannah Arendt, "Preface," in Between Past and Future
One of the enduring sources of inspiration in Hannah Arendt's political thought is her exceptional capability of tying together reflections on concrete worldly events with in-depth philosophical, historical, and cultural insights. Her thinking never prioritizes abstract theorizations and never uses the incidents of the political world only as "examples." Instead, for her the activity of thinking is about making sense of the events of the time. Whenever Arendt – against her habit – assumes a self-reflective position with regards to her own way of doing political theory, her emphasis is on the experiential nature of thought. In The Origins of Totalitarianism, she insists on facing the "impact of reality and the shock of experience" in all their force without succumbing to either reckless pessimism or optimism. The call to "think what we are doing," as she puts it in The Human Condition, is indeed the primus motor underlying all her works.
Proust on Thinking
"The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunises us against it, makes it seem no more than any other thought."
-- Marcel Proust
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Advanced Pico Beena
アドバンスピコ・ビーナ Advanced PICO Beena
The Advanced Pico Beena
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The Advanced Pico Beena (Japanese: アドバンスピコ・ビーナ Advanced PICO Beena) is an edutainment console developed by Sega, and the sequel to the Sega Pico. It has only been released in Japan.
Cartridges for the Advanced Pico Beena are called Storyware and are book shaped. Each time a player turns the page of the cartridge the screen changes to replicate the image in the book. The games are controlled by a stylus and buttons. Certain games' save files can be saved on an SD card.
Pokémon games
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|October 1, 2005
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- News tagged "samsung"
Tuesday, 8 Jul 2014
Samsung Robbed in Brazil
20 robbers have taken off with 40,000 Samsung products in Brazil.
Monday, 7 Jul 2014
Samsung: Don't Be a Wall Hugger
Been at an airport recently and saw a lot of people crowding around power outlets charging their mobile devices? A Samsung ad says these are probably not Galaxy S5 users.
Wednesday, 2 Jul 2014
Samsung Unveils 4.5-Inch Galaxy S5 Mini, No Plans to Launch It in Singapore
Samsung unveiled a smaller variant of its Galaxy S5 flagship smartphone. Known as the Galaxy S5 Mini, the 4.5-inch smartphone runs on a quad-core 1.4GHz processor, 1.5GB RAM and Android 4.4 KitKat.
Tuesday, 1 Jul 2014
Samsung Introduces World's First 3D V-NAND SSD, the SSD 850 PRO (Updated with Pricing)
Samsung has just unveiled the world's first consumer 3D Vertical NAND SSD, the SSD 850 Pro, at the Samsung SSD Global Summit in South Korea.
Wednesday, 18 Jun 2014
Samsung Unveils Galaxy S5 LTE-A with 5.1-Inch QHD Display in Korea
Samsung today announced the Galaxy S5 LTE-A in Korea, which comes with the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 quad-core 2.5GHz processor, 3GB RAM and a 5.1-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED display. Hit the link to find out more.
Kanye West Says Apple Bought Beats Only Because Samsung Worked with Jay-Z
In a recent interview, Kanye West shared his thoughts on why Apple bought Beats and said that it was mostly because of their desire to get connected to culture after seeing the success Samsung had with Jay-Z.
Friday, 13 Jun 2014
Logitech Extends Tablet Keyboard Lineup for the Latest Samsung Galaxy Devices
On top of announcing the Logitech Type-S, a thin and light protective keyboard case for the new Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5-inch, the company is also launching its Ultrathin Keyboard Folio for the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 10.1, along with the Logitech Pro.
Samsung Launches 8.4- and 10.5-inch Galaxy Tab S Tablets with Super AMOLED Displays
In New York's Madison Square Garden today, Samsung unveiled its latest premium flagship tablets, the 8.4- and 10.5-inch Galaxy Tab S. Boasting 2560 x 1600 pixel resolution Super AMOLED displays, and incredibly thin 6.6mm bodies, the Galaxy Tab S looks like Samsung's best tablet to date.
Thursday, 12 Jun 2014
ZTE: We See Opportunity to Take Market Share Away from Samsung
Mr. Ni Fei, General Manager of Nubia at ZTE, made a bold statement that he is confident of taking market share away from Samsung in the near future when the Korean company slips from the top.
Wednesday, 11 Jun 2014
Photos and Specs of Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini Leaked
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I've been struggling for several days with a new blog that was suddenly throttled, but one particular symptom has been nagging me: why would my entire /wp-content/uploads/ directory be suddenly blocked from viewing by web browsers and my WordPress installation?
-my media library stopped showing the image thumbnails, and
-the individual image files are unavailable for viewing by browser. This occurred at the same time I received my first warning about throttling.
- I am able to reach these files, and see them, via FTP, and they are visible, even *previewable*, by the CPanel File Manager.
- The permissions on the folders and files are all perfectly normal. 755/644...
About the content: the blog is a small personal French-language site dedicated to barefoot running, ie jogging without shoes, or with minimalist shoes like Vibram FiveFingers. The photos show bare feet and legs, like for example in a running event.
It just dawned on me that this _might_ be running afoul of BlueHost's ToS, possibility concerning the "nudity" criteria. So far the support person merely suggested there was a problem with WordPress, but that wouldn't explain the inability to view an entire subdirectory. Has anyone encountered similar issues?
I need to make a rapid decision about finding another hosting company, if this turns out to be an issue for BlueHost.


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Scoring System for Badminton Doubles Badminton Doubles is a match consists of the best of 3 games of 21 points. Every time there is a serve – there is a point scored. The side winning
Scoring System for Badminton Singles Badminton Singles is a match consists of the best of 3 games of 21 points. Every time there is a serve – there is a point scored. The side winning
When playing badminton, it is important to develop tactics and strategies a game plan to out-think and beat your opponent. By identifying and focusing
Usually, when I am coaching my new students, the first thing I check is how they hold the badminton racket. It is important and easy to learn