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.
It's an overcast Saturday in Melbourne.
By invitation, we arrive at the Carlton Football Ground, each in our own way to play a part in Raafat Ishak's filming of Half a proposition for a banner march and a black cube hot air balloon.
Raaf and your correspondent are no strangers to AFL footy and had planned
(before the Half A Proposition schedule became too full) to attend last night's game between the Bombers and the Sydney Swans.
However, for many of those at Half A Proposition this was their first visit to an AFL arena.
So, let the game begin.
Many thoughts amidst the fun. Observing Raff's players by their physical effort and good humour keep these two breath-filled cubes afloat in this decommissioned football theatre, memories over-lapped of the recently deceased Melbourne identity, Keith Dunstan.
Journalist and general bon-vivant, in 1967 Dunstan founded his alternative AFL : Anti-Football League. Their logo depicts a football that will not bounce.
Dunstan was very theatrical in his promotion of alternatives (including cycling) to the Melbourne football obsession. In 1972, he staged his own AFL counter-ritual at the holy of holies, the MCG :
Leaving the ground after Half a proposition... your correspondent noticed on the Wall of Legends a large number 2o above the name Geoff Southby. Inducted in 2000 into the Australian Football Hall of Fame and the Carlton Football Club Hall of Fame, in 2013 Geoff's CFC status was further elevated to that of Legend. Back in 1964, we shared a school desk together...
Below, as on-field Daruma Muralists in this 1971 pea-souper at Junction Oval, Geoff Southby (20) and Paul Shanahan (38) gaze into the void.
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A large crowd of Color Field enthusiasts attended last night's performance at Civic Hall by some local members of Theatre of the Actors of Regard.
This 90 minute tableau vivant took as inspiration : someone looking at the reproduction below ] with white trim ( of Mark Rothko's 1956 painted fabric, Orange and Yellow.
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This timely article by Tim Thornton, published in yesterday's 'The Age' :
The problem with the way we educate economists : click here
Neoclassical economists control the curriculum, but a global wave of protest might change that soon.
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Tonight, the Treasurer Joe Hockey will present his first Budget for the Abbott coalition Government. Given the leaks and predictions of 'savage cuts and broken promises', Parliament House, Canberra, has been dubbed for this event The House of Pain.
Commonly described as an Economic Rationalist, Hockey has been warning the people of Australia that 'the Economy is in crisis'; that 'the Age of Entitlement is over' and, as a consequence, that 'we must all do some heavy-lifting'.
On Friday last, having sent The Budget to print, Treasurer Joe Hockey and Finance Minister
Mathias Corman with their cuban cigar props re-staged the epiLOGOS/HA HA scene from Boston Legal.
When is a stereotype not a stereotype? Compare the above with this postcard image from a hundred years ago. Form follows function, or what?
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As part of NEXT WAVE and DAS BOOT ...
... the boots of the Theatre of the Actors of Regard car fleet were opened to The Public today.
"If you would just stand there, please."
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In recent months, we've noted a number of fresh re-views of Capital and Economy.
The first of these was in a TV documentary series about attitudes to sex, in different countries. In the Cuba episode, the investigator while speaking with a group of women made an aside reference to "advertising". The woman being interviewed did not know what an advertisement was, and had difficulty understanding the explanation. (A shock moment of re-cognition, as when driving through East Germany in 1992 and 'seeing' an absence of advertisements.) An older woman in the group explained it very simply : "Advertising is commercial propaganda."
Since then, the publication in March of Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, a professor at the Paris School of Economics.
Thomas Piketty: the French economist bringing capitalism to book by Larry Elliott, Economics Editor at The Guardian, 3 May 2014
And today we've been listening on ABC.RN to another French contributor, Peter Szendy, who is presently in Australia to give a series of lectures :
Peter Szendy : The Aesthetic Supermarket for Thinking Out Loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society at the State Library of NSW.
Lecture 1 :
From the department store to the shopping mall: cinema and its markets - Monday 5 May
Lecture 2 :
The value of images - Wednesday 7 May
Lecture 3 :
The commodity gaze - Friday 9 May
Today's radio program Peter Szendy : The new iconomy of images and exchange can be listened to online at The Philosopher's Zone. Recommended!
"This is what I would call Iconomic Capitalism"
- Peter Szendy
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The Ladder of Divine Ascent
Eastern Orthodox ikon at Saint Catherine's monastery, Mt Sinai.
Into the mix, our own economy graphic statement :
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We get lots of mail from our correspondents in France.
Here's a corner of stamps, not atypical, received from France last week.
One coincides with the (28 April) anniversary of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust.
Another, the post-WW2 project for a united Europe.
Often we receive a mix of such stamps on any one envelope - a mix of dates, a mix of subjects, a mix of considered arrangment too - from senders who care about the exchange of signs.
Here also is a block of six from 1986 that celebrate French cinema and the Theatre of the Actors of Regard.
From the NY Times Nov 1986 :
The French now have a sheetlet of 10 stamps to commemorate the 50th anniversary of La Cinematheque Francaise, the French institution that includes a museum as well as a film projection theater. The French sheetlet was issued Sept. 22. It illustrates scenes from 10 French films and honors their directors.
The films are ''Vampires'' (Louis Feuillade), ''The Novel of a Cheater'' (Sacha Guitry), ''The Baker's Wife'' (Marcel Pagnol), ''The Belles of the Night'' (Rene Clair), ''Golden Cap'' (Jacques Becker), ''Grande Illusion'' (Max Lindner and Jean Renoir), ''The Mirror with Three Faces'' (Jean Epstein), ''Love Cry'' (Jean Gremillon), and ''The Wild Child'' (Francois Truffaut)
And what about Australian stamps? Thoughts arise of a favorite Mike Brown work :
The Little Sheep, 1972.
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