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Murphy, Peter. Interview with Margaret Bennett in Antigonish, NS.
No full textAn audio clip of Peter Murphy talking to Margaret Bennett in Antigonish about Newfoundland. They talk about music and how it relates to social history and passes stories down through generations
Arnason (Johann P.), Murphy (Peter) edd. Agon, Logos, Polis. The Greek Achievement and its Aftermath.
No full textDuplouy Alain. Arnason (Johann P.), Murphy (Peter) edd. Agon, Logos, Polis. The Greek Achievement and its Aftermath. . In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 84, fasc. 1, 2006. Antiquité - Oudheid. pp. 156-157
Architectonics
No full text[Extract] Hippodamos was the first utopian - the first person not actually taking part in the workings of a constitution to attempt some description of the ideal one. [1] That at least was Aristotle's reckoning - and we have no reason to doubt his judgement. Hailing from the port-city of Miletus, [2] Hippodamos was invited to provide an urban plan for Athens' port, Piraeus. He laid-out the entrepôt in the fashion of a grid. The design was not his invention. It had precedents amongst earlier Ionian Greek cities. Miletians had employed the grid-schema in their creation of colonial cities and in the rebuilding of Miletus after its sack by the Persians. What was revolutionary though, in Hippodamos' case, was to suppose that such a schema belonged to no place, to no where (u-topia) in particular - neither to Ionia nor to Attica. While the Persian conquest presented the Ionian Greeks with the necessity of systematically rebuilding broken cities, and while Ionian colonials took with them recreatable patterns of urbanity to new and distant places, Athens' acquisition-by-invitation of the grid-schema was unusual. It presumed to order space, providing a eu-topia, but without reference to a place-specific Nomos. It turned the Greek idea of eu-topia (the beautiful-good place) into the idea of u-topia (the no place)
Early agriculture environment on the Hampshire chalklands : circa 800 B.C. - 400 A.D.
No full textThis thesis presents the results of a study of plant remains, principally fruits and seeds, from 10 sites of the Iron Age and Roman periods on the Hampshire Chalklands and from two further sites outside the area. The geographical and cultural background is outlined and the location of sites with respect to natural resources is considered. The critically reviewed, and an examination of the problem of contamination by modern plant material is made. The remains recovered are described in detail, and representative specimens are illustrated. methods of sampling and flotation are plant Wild plant communities represented by these fruits and seeds include woodlands, scrub, grasslands, wetlands, heath, and arable weed and ruderal vegetations. These communities and their exploitation are discussed and the natural and humanly-modified environment of early Roman Winchester is examined in greater detail. Evidence for pre-Roman arboriculture and horticulture, and the range of Roman fruit and vegetable crops are both discussed. Botanical arable farming in both periods is reviewed, and the pro- cesses involved in cereal production, both in the fields and after harvest are examined in detail. and archaeological evidence concerning</p
Portal power and thalassic imagination
No full text[Extract] Hierarchies, networks, and navigations are fundamental social-historical structures. Consider for a moment this typology as it applies to the question of governance. Historically, the most persistent model of governance has been hierarchy. Even today - when hierarchy is rhetorically downplayed in the name of social equality - it remains the most common type of rule. It appears in many guises. Most people find their lives caught up in one or other familial, patrimonial, bureaucratic, clerical, corporate, or party hierarchy
The world circumference
No full text[Extract] Most states in human history have been patrimonies or have possessed significant patrimonial features. Today patrimony, or more precisely neo-patrimony, is still the most common state form to be found across the world. Under the surface of modernity lurks a deep and abiding archaism. Patrimonial states took shape sometime in the fourth millennium BCE, and attained a mature form with the Sumerians, Hittites, and Egyptians. These states replaced technological adaptation to nature - prized by the first human societies, the nomad societies - with the social organization of labor. Whereas peripatetic nomad societies advanced through technological metabolism with nature, patrimonial states advanced by escalating the range and types of face-to-face social relationships. This was far from a happy condition. They deployed techniques of slavery, status hierarchy, serfdom, patron-client relations, and command-and-obedience relations to enforce or compel sedentary life. The state in effect asserted ownership over human beings. Even while patrimonial states produced the first urban communities, their command of face-to-face social structures proved more often than not to be sadistic, punitive, and terrifying. Cruelty was the norm of these thick social relationships
Discovery
No full text[Extract] Creative acts deploy patterns. Conversely, the act of creation has its own patterns. It is explicable and understandable because it exhibits certain recurring features. Paradoxically that which is most fresh and unpredictable has characteristic repeating traits. Its acts of revolution both cycle back to an old refrain and explode in time confounding expectation. One of the characteristic patterns of creation is that it clumps and clusters-it does not distribute evenly across time and space. One of the primary expressions of this is the periodic golden ages of creativity. In less poetic terms, all that means is that creativity concentrates in specific times and places. This is true both of acts of creation and of the institutions that serve to mid-wife invention and to disseminate inventive creations to the wider society. At various times, academies, churches, colleges guilds, patrons, councils and associations have performed this supplemental role, as hand-maiden to creation. In the twentieth century, both business firms and universities emerged as key institutions for creative dissemination and diffusion, and both have also acted as social crucibles for creation. In these roles, both have played a central role in the arts- and science- based economics that emerged in the industrial age and transformed the economic and social landscape beyond recognition
Bob Dylan ain't talking: one man's vast comic adventure in American music, dramaturgy, and mysticism
Full text link[Extract] Bob Dylan has spent a lifetime despising the nineteen-sixties - all the while being held up everywhere as its avatar. This comic tale of mistaken identity is the the story of his life. No matter what he says - let alone what he sings - it seems to make no difference. When he wrote a percussive-pulsating one chord rant-chant against living in a 'Political World' in 1989, it was dismissed by critics - sub-standard Dylan, they said. What they were really saying was: no, we don't believe you. You are a protest singer at heart. You don't really loath politics, whatever you might say or do. So books continue to be written about him as if he was a nineteen sixties political radical playing loquacious-hipster king to Joan Baez's platitudinous-remonstrating queen. No matter how much he might excoriate this notion of his marvelous biography, Chronicles, Volume One - one of the great pieces of American literature, on a par with Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Angie March - it changes nothing. Left-liberal writers still compulsively lionize him in their own image - and their feckless children, who populate the modern media machines, regurgitate the same risible clichés about him
Creativity and knowledge economies
No full text[Extract] There are two ideas of culture. One is romantic (Murphy & Roberts, 2004). Culture in the romantic sense is a function of nations. Nations are defined by territory, language and social norms. Nations possess incommensurable characteristics-different ways of doing things and creating things, and different mindsets, that provide advantages in global economic and social competition. In particular the 'genius' of a nation produces innovation. A second, and older, idea equates culture with the civilization of cities. This idea precedes the modern romantic idea of nationhood. Culture as a function of the civilization of cities is less the expression of incommensurable qualities and habits and more the consequence of the universals of shape, pattern and form
The enigma of distance
No full text[Extract] The pianist in Wittgenstein (1974, 6.51-7) put it well: 'the most important things in life lie beyond words.' So let us begin by throwing away the ladder of language that we are used to standing on.
Wittgenstein's other life - as an architect, engineer, and musician - conditioned him to do what philosophers often do not bother to do: take seriously what is not put into words, or what lies beneath words. Wittgenstein struggled for a way of understanding the silent shape of things. Things that cannot be put into words, he observed, manifest themselves. Wittgenstein called this process 'mystical' (6.522). There is a long tradition of thinking mystically about those things that we cannot put into words. There is also another, and equally strong, tradition of thinking about such things. This is to render them in geometric, musical, and architectural forms. There is no obligation on us to choose between these ways of thinking. Indeed, at certain times, these traditions have cut across each other
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