David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :
'I have made a heap of all that I could find.' (1) So wrote Nennius, or whoever composed the introductory matter to Historia Brittonum. He speaks of an 'inward wound' which was caused by the fear that certain things dear to him 'should be like smoke dissipated'. Further, he says, 'not trusting my own learning, which is none at all, but partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymous, Prosper, Eusebius and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons although our enemies . . . I have lispingly put together this . . . about past transactions, that [this material] might not be trodden under foot'. (2)
(1) The actual words are coacervavi omne quod inveni, and occur in Prologue 2 to the Historia.
(2) Quoted from the translation of Prologue 1. See The Works of Gildas and Nennius, J.A.Giles, London 1841.
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In an unprecedented gesture, the museum has replaced works in its permanent collection galleries with eight by artists from Muslim-majority nations named in Trump’s executive order.
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Installation view of the collection galleries at Museum of Modern
Art, New York, after this week’s rehang (photo Robert Gerhardt)
In response to President Trump’s executive order temporarily banning immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has replaced works in its permanent collection galleries with eight by artists from the targeted nations. Though it might sound small, the rehang is an unprecedented gesture in the museum’s history, instigated and executed by staff who wanted to react to unsettling political circumstances.
Organized by a group of curators across a number of departments, the reinstallation occurred last night on the fifth floor, following an initial discussion two days after Trump issued the order on January 27.
read full article HERE
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Parviz Tanavoli, “The Prophet” (1964) photo Robert Gerhardt
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At the centre of Tibetan Buddhism's Wheel of Life diagram, a snake a pig and a rooster hold to each other. They represent ignorance, anger and desire attachment as the causes at the core of our unsettled suffering.
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1. Anger is of most concern among the afflictive emotions. In all the writing and discussion read and heard by this correspondent, in the analysis the diagnosis and the seeking for a way beyond these Trump-focussed troubles, there has been no questioning of the appropriateness of anger in the mix. We regard this as blinkered and unwise.
Righteous anger is typically a reactive emotion of anger over mistreatment, insult, or malice. It is akin to what is called the sense of injustice.
Righteous indignation - Wikipedia
book by Panjak Mishra, first published 25 January 2017
It /we will not change if not attended to at the root.
2. Ignorance in this schema is further described as ignorance of the true nature of reality. Without here going into a presentation of that view, how is the present climate of our knowledge of the true nature of reality? ...in this so-called "post-truth" (Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year) age?
Gnosis is the common Greek noun for knowledge (γνῶσις, gnôsis, f.). It is often used for personal knowledge compared with intellectual knowledge (εἶδειν eídein), as with the French connaitre compared with savoir, or the German kennen rather than wissen. Latin dropped the initial g (which was preserved in Greek) so gno- becomes no- as in noscō meaning "I know", noscentia meaning "knowledge" and notus meaning "known". The g remains in the Latin co-gni-tio meaning "knowledge" and i-gno-tus and i-gna-rus meaning "unknown" and from which comes the word i-gno-rant, and a-gno-stic which means "not knowing" and once again this reflects the Sanskrit jna which means "to know", "to perceive" or "to understand".
Gnosis - Wikipedia
Post-truth politics (also called post-factual politics) is a political culture in which debate is framed largely by appeals to emotion disconnected from the details of policy, and by the repeated assertion of talking points to which factual rebuttals are ignored.
Post-truth politics - Wikipedia
Agnotology (formerly agnatology) is the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt, particularly the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data.
The neologism was coined by Robert N. Proctor and Linguist Iain Boal, a Stanford University professor specializing in the history of science and technology. Its name derives from the Neoclassical Greek word ἄγνωσις, agnōsis, "not knowing" (cf. Attic Greek ἄγνωτος "unknown"), and -λογία, -logia.
More generally, the term also highlights the increasingly common condition where more knowledge of a subject leaves one more uncertain than before. David Dunning is another academic who studies the spread of ignorance. "Dunning warns that the internet is helping propagate ignorance – it is a place where everyone has a chance to be their own expert, he says, which makes them prey for powerful interests wishing to deliberately spread ignorance".
Agnotology - Wikipedia
Jesus : "The truth shall set you free"
Pilate : "What is truth?"
Trump : "I am your voice"
3. Desire attachment fuels the American Dream and all such dream machines. Every generation of snake oil salesmen sells anew Fear of Loss and the Prospect of Redemption : Paradise Lost and Make America Great Again. We the people : angry, ignorant and would-be/dispossessed project to reflect to elect to follow to reject again the next available suitably framed mirror...
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Postscript : 9 February 2017, in today's New York Review of Books, The Age of Total Lies by Vesna Pešić and Charles Simic. And, via that, the March 2012 article Age of Ignorance by Charles Simic.
Subject: Major exhibition announcement
In celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the House of Dior the NGV will present the never-before-seen exhibition The House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture.
Exclusive to Melbourne, this exhibition has been developed by the NGV in collaboration with the House of Dior, and will feature a sumptuous display of over 140 garments. Highlights include Christian Dior's iconic Spring 1947 'New Look' collection, magnificent ballgowns and current contemporary designs from the House's first female head designer, Maria Grazia Chiuri.
Versailles @ NGA ] man with a golden tie (
Classy Melbourne : 'New Look' 1947
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'On Being : Subjects in the Darkness of the Sun King'
Performance by Theatre of the Actors of Regard at the National
Gallery of Australia's 'Versailles : Treasures of the Palace',
featuring :
Have you seen another painting ] standing in the shadow (
- from Rebel Songs of TAR
[Verse 1]
I'm glad I opened your eyes
The have-nots would have tried to freeze you in ice
[Chorus]
Have you seen your mother, standing in the shadow
Have you had another, baby, standing in the shadow
[Verse 4]
You take your choice at this time
The brave old world or the slide to the depths of decline
- from "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby,
Standing in the Shadow?", Rolling Stones (1966)
TAR 'refusalist' demonstrates at NGV, Melbourne.
"Increasingly, we are seeing the public turning their backs on Art," a spokesperson for TAR said. Photograph by Bruno Benini
Daruma Muralists versus The New Look
'Protester at NGV awarded Gown of the Year', The Argus, 1956
Photograph by Bruno Benini
Fashion!
Turn to the left
Fashion!
Turn to the right
Oooh, fashion!
We are the goon squad and we're coming to town
Beep-beep, beep-beep
- Tobias Andre Helmlinger, Thomas Karl Lang, Markus Steckert, Johannes Uschalt, Matthias Wendl
BRUNO BENINI & TAR :
CREATING ] THE REFUSAL ( TO LOOK
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Senator James Paterson advocates that Blue Ties be sold to reduce the Budget debt a bit.
Senator Paterson
And are you in favour of the $200million same-sex marriage plebiscite rather than a direct vote in the Parliament, he was asked. Yes, he said. Go figure.
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ABC.TV :
Howard On Menzies: Building Modern Australia
Part two, last night, made no mention of Menzies aligning himself with Sir Lionel Lindsay's 1942 polemic "Addled Art", which had as its thesis that modern art was a Jewish conspiracy!
Menzies: “You may judge from the tone of this letter, and quite rightly, that I have recently re-read Addled Art with supreme joy.”
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Sir Robert Menzies
Director of Australia from 1939 to 1941 and
Director of Australia from 1949 to 1966
Sir Robert Menzies by Eric Westbrook, c.1960, when Director of the National Gallery of Victoria
J. S. Macdonald, 1936–41
Sir Ernest Daryl Lindsay, 1942–55
Eric Westbrook, 1956–73
Gordon Thomson, 1973–75
Melbourne artists in 1975 protested at the NGV about their relationship with the NGV.
For some reason, it was not the NGV Director who addressed the protesters' grievances but Eric Westbrook, by then several years retired from that role and since installed at the new Victorian Ministry for the Arts.
In this photo from that protest, Eric Westbrook is standing to the left; in the centre, representing the artists, is John Davis; to the right, arguing for other related matters is Terry Smith. (A detailed account around this event can be read in Jonathan Holmes' Going Solo: a report on survey exhibitions in Australian public museums in the 1970s.)
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Dr Eric Westbrook
Prime Minister of the NGV from 1956 to 1973
above : self-sketch by Eric Westbrook, 1950.
collection National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
below : sketch-in protest at NGV, 2004.
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On 26 May 1975, Ivan Durrant dumped the carcass of a "freshly slaughtered cow" on the forecourt of the National Gallery of Victoria.[4][5][8][9] - Wikipedia
Series starts tonight on ABC.TV :
Howard On Menzies: Building Modern Australia
As if to disprove his own thesis, former Prime Minister John Winston Howard poses for Theatre of the Actors of Regard before the 1954 Archibald Prize winning portrait painted by Ivor Hele and meta-Titled Rt Hon. R.G. Menzies PC CH QC MP.
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On Tuesday night Australia attempted a national census.
By 7.30pm, after just two million citizen entries and four concerted Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shut their site down.
Thirty-six hours later, it is still down.
"Heads will roll," declares PM.
Endusers :
Two key messages :
The first is, if y0u want enduser acceptance, you need to actually go and consult with them and listen to the endusers.
And then the second thing is, you need to listen to concerns when seven Senators, a Deputy Privacy Commissioner, and a former lead statistician of the country all raise privacy concerns and you sweep them away as if they count for nothing, don't be surprised if people are pretty unhappy.
- Dr Suelette Dreyfus (Computer Security lecturer, Melb. Uni)
The Drum, ABC.TV yesterday.
Endgamers :
Since the narrow re-election of the conservative Turnbull government last month, we've been intrigued to note the preference for an 'Endgame' set in the Prime Minister’s Press Conference Room, the Blue Room.
Instead of the previously favoured dark minimal unobtrusive lecterns...
Environment minister Greg Hunt, Prime minister Tony Abbott and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop at a press conference in the blue room of Parliament House, Canberra this morning, Tuesday 11th August 2015. Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian
...the would-be gravitees now elect to address the nation from monumental white heraldic dustbins.
1958, Frances Cuka as Nell & Richard Goolden as Nagg in the first English language production.
1996, Henry Jones and Eileen Nicholas at the Donmar Warehouse.
2006, Tony O'Brien as Nagg & Jackie Skarvellis as Nell, Pentameters Theatre, LOGOS THEATRE UK
2008, Elaine Stritch as Nell and Alvin Epstein as Nagg, Brooklyn Academy of Music – photo by Richard Termine
2010, Randy Harrison as Nagg and Tanya Dougherty as Nell, Berkshire Theatre
2012 Endgame by Monash Uni Student Theatre (MSA)
All for TAR and TAR for all :
2016 Endgame at the Blue Room -
ScoMo and the PM as Nagg and Nell
Press and TV as Clov and Hamm
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July 2016 Republican Convention
Trump :
The elites are throwing money at my opponent - she is their puppet and they pull the strings
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John Winston Howard ( Prime Minister of Australia 1996-2007 ) is fond of saying "Context is everything".
2012 : writing in the Financial Review
Context is everything, says John Howard
"So the optimistic note that I end on is that I think the Australian population is fairly savvy about the importance of our linkages with our own region, the great significance of the mining industry, and indeed any industry that makes a contribution to the generation of wealth and that would have been the source of continuing reassurance and continuing comfort to us all – and it is a reminder, once again, that context is everything."
Shall I compare me to a Menzies?
2014 (25 Sept) ABC.777 Canberra/Hannah Walmsley
From one PM to another: John Howard pens a tome to his hero
Referring to the Vietnam War as 'the great divisive issue', Howard said it was during the last years of Menzies Prime Ministership that the crucial commitment was made to send an infantry battalion to Vietnam.
"I asked myself the rhetorical question 'was that the right decision or the wrong decision'. I said in the book that I'd have taken the same decision as Menzies took."
"Context is everything, when you look at decisions like that and why it's now quite possible to look back and say well that was a mistake.
"But you have to ask yourself, how would you have reacted in 1965 with the information, the assessments, the attitudes and the values at that time.
"If you're looking at causation in Iraq to current events, you really have to look at those events since the surge in 2008-2009," he said.
As for his own 'Vietnam' moment, Howard said he doesn't regret intervention in Iraq.
"I believed there were weapons of mass destruction...the balance of advice that we had said that," he said.
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Last week in the UK, Sir John Chilcot released his committee's findings of the Iraq Inquiry into the British Government's 2003 decision to go to war in Iraq.
2016 (July 6) : Isabel Hardman 6 July 2016 The Spectator
Iraq Inquiry: Key points from Sir John Chilcot’s statement
Should the UK have gone to war in Iraq? Did it have the necessary legal basis and intelligence to do so? And did it mess up once involved militarily in the country? Sir John Chilcot’s Iraq Inquiry finally published its report this morning, and these are the key conclusions that he reached in his statement:
1. While military action against Saddam Hussein ‘might have been necessary at some point’, in March 2003, he posed no imminent threat, the strategy of containment could have been continued for ‘some time’, and the majority of the Security Council supported continuing UN inspections and monitoring’. ‘Military action at that time was not a last resort,’ Sir John said in his statement.
2. The way in which the government decided that there was a legal basis for military action was ‘far from satisfactory’.
3. ‘Flawed intelligence and assessments’ formed the basis of policy on Iraq. Chilcot said ‘they were not challenged, and they should have been’. The judgements on the severity of the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction were ‘presented with a certainty that was not justified’.
4. Planning for a post-Saddam Iraq was ‘wholly inadequate’. The Inquiry took a dim view of Tony Blair’s claim that the difficulties encountered in the country could not have been known in advance, arguing that 'we do not agree that hindsight is required. The risks of internal strife in Iraq, active Iranian pursuit of its interests, regional instability, and Al Qaida activity in Iraq, were each explicitly identified before the invasion.’
Tandberg : The Age, 8 July 2016
Immediately after the Chilcot Inquiry findings were published Tony Blair called a press conference in his own defence. John Howard did likewise in Australia, and again repeated his post-Nuremberg Principles (Lord Prescott, Deputy PM At Time Of Iraq Invasion, Brands War Illegal) defence mantra "Context is everything".
2016 (July 7) : news.com.au (extract below)
Chilcot report finds 2003 Iraq war unnecessary, Saddam Hussein was ‘no imminent threat’
Today Mr Howard acknowledged the Chilcot Report touched on some issues regarding the political justification for the Iraq War.
He backed Mr Blair, saying “there was no lie”.
Asked whether it was time Australia held a similar inquiry, Mr Howard said we had “held a number of inquires already”.
“We are all informed by subsequent events but as somebody who’s been in a decision-making position in relation to these matters, I make the obvious point that you make judgements based on the information available at the time,” he said.
“Context is everything, as a wise man once said, and it’s very important to keep that in mind.”
Mr Howard said it was both the judgement of the UK’s JIC, MI6 and US intelligence agencies that Iraq did have stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
“In the years that have gone by there’s been this constant claim that we went to war based on a lie,” he said.
“There was no lie. There were errors in intelligence but there was no lie and can I also make the observation that the Chilcot Report imposes a standard of beyond doubt.
“Can I offer the view that when you’re dealing with intelligence it’s very, very hard to find a situation where advice is beyond doubt.
“Sometimes if you wait for advice that is beyond doubt you can end up with very disastrous consequences.”
That evening John Howard also went on ABC.TV 'Lateline'. And again he incanted "Context is everything." Tony Jones challenged him on that.
JOHN HOWARD: Yeah, but I can tell you about a meeting I had with Sir Richard Dearlove, who was the head of MI6, at Stoke Lodge, the residence of the Australian High Commissioner in London, in which he showed me the latest transcripts of conversations and repeated his very strong view that Iraq did have stockpiles of weapons. So let's - let's put the perspective that you're in my position as Prime Minister of the country and I'm getting advice about the possession of weapons of mass destruction from intelligence agencies. Now, I know that has turned out to be flawed. I know that. I accept that. Nobody can argue with that. But as somebody once said, context is everything and the context ...
TONY JONES: But Mr Howard, we're trying to find the context here when it comes to why the peaceful option of going with Blix was ignored. And here's what David Manning ...
JOHN HOWARD: It wasn't ignored.
TONY JONES: Here's - well, hang on. Let me, let me just...
JOHN HOWARD: It was assessed to have been something that wasn't going to work.
TONY JONES: Let me just read you what Chilcot says David - Sir David Manning's advice at the breakfast meeting was to the people round the table. He said Blair should focus in public on the underlying message that there was not a fundamental change in attitude, but he should privately challenge the idea that the peaceful option might work and publicly state that it's dead in the water. So, they're looking at Blix being optimistic and they're trying to work out how we can get that out of the public space.
JOHN HOWARD: Well that's the interpretation that you place on that.
TONY JONES: Chilcot.
Context is everything : before 2003 and after
If, as it is said, the first casualty of (the prelude to) war is Truth ("weapons of mass destruction"); and if, as the truism (often attributed to Winston Churchill) states, History is written by the victors, then staking claim to the bounds of a total ("everything") and forgivable context would be a part of that re-construction.
In 2003, a bloody-minded John Winston Howard ignored the largest ever public protest movement in Australia to join with George W Bush and Tony Blair to wage war in Iraq.
FORESIGHT PREVENTS BLINDNESS, Iraq, 1976
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1. Which is the pleasanter to look at?
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Extract from BILL'S TRANSCRIPTS :
E&OE TRANSCRIPT
DOORSTOP
HOBART
FRIDAY, 17 JUNE 2016
SUBJECTS: Labor’s positive plans for Tasmania; Labor's plans to tackle youth unemployment; Media access to debates; Murder of British Labour MP Jo Cox; Sheik Shady Alsuleiman; Marriage equality;
Liberal plans to privatise Medicare; Parakeelia; Live exports
JOURNALIST : Do you agree with the suspension of live exports to the abattoirs in Vietnam over animal cruelty and do you think more should be done?
SHORTEN : Yes I do agree with the suspension. Those images are shocking. And before Barnaby Joyce and the rest of the brigade say this means, you know, this means criticising live export is somehow an attack on the whole industry. The truth is, we keep getting promised the images we saw won't happen again. This Government cannot be trusted with the supply chain in live exports, I think that we need to have an Independent Office of Animal Welfare which oversights the supply chain system of live exports. Otherwise many Australian will question the viability of the industry. And let me be clear, Labor supports having a live export trade, but these images are not good enough to simply say business as usual. And we need a new system of regulation which will ensure integrity in the system, because those images are sick making.
Shouldn't it be the actions?
Shouldn't it be :
Those images ACTIONS are shocking.
The truth is, we keep getting promised the images ACTIONS we saw won't happen again.
And let me be clear, Labor supports having a live export trade, but these images ACTIONS are not good enough to simply say business as usual.
because those images ACTIONS are sick making.
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