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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/19/sex-toy-sales-canada-nhl-lockout_n_ 2158997.html?ir=Small+Business&ref=topbar Perhaps Keith could explain this.:>)) REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of michael gurstein Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 3:15 PM To: [email protected]; 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] Thoughts on the golden age Mike, On the below you are only half right... A lot of Anglo-Saxonia and particulalry the Brits have been pre-occupied with the number of nits they could parse from the hind side of whatever mangy analytical dog might be roaming by... but there has also been some very interesting Philosophy of Knowledge, Philsopohy of Science, Phenomenology, even Existentialism which has been rather more true (to) life -- FWIW... ;-( M (BA. Hon. (Phil.&Pol.) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 8:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] Re: Thoughts on the golden age [MG>] ... Where it isn't ironic or at least some kind of reference to older art, I surmise that visual art has tended to follow a path in the 20th c. similar to that followed by philosophy. From my (notably under-informed) perspective, philosophy in the last 100 or so years has come to consist mostly of an analysis of language. The metaphysics, epistemology etc. of canonical philosophy has been deconstructed as linguistics. [3] The last time I hung out at an art college, I couldn't go a whole day without barking my shins on the word "semiotic" and similar words related to the study of language per se. Am I wandering insufferably far off topic here? - Mike [1] Pace REH. It may be a neural ideosyncrasy that, for the most part, the trained voice grates on my ear, basses sometimes excepted. [2] This caught my attention because of Immanuel Velikovsky. He had originally come to North America to research ancient Egypt. His Earth in Upheaval and Ages in Chaos were the result of a two decade long digression. He finally got back to Egypt and wrote Oedipus & Akhnaton, identifying the Oedipus myth in detail with the people, events, art and archaeological remnants of Akhnaton's reign. Facinating book. Velikovsky obviously did a vry great deal of research. I doubt that I have the patience and dedication to expand into book form my short piece tracing the Winnie the Pooh myth back through Rome and Akhnaton's Egypt to the Epic of Gilgamesh. Probably just as well. :-) [3] Which nay now be on the verge of being deconstructed by neuroscience. Film at 11:00. -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
