On 7/29/06, Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> I haven't read Work and Leisure. Capitalism has banished holiness out
> of its erstwhile mundane existence, e.g., giving people fewer holidays
> than medieval peasants used to have, privatizing religion (along the
> line of secular liberalism), etc.
Let's not overestimate the power of capitalism or the (emotional /
social / sexual) toughness of people.
Over time, my montages have attracted some Muslim readers (cf.
<http://almusawwir.org/2006/05/27/a-secular-left-critique-of-shirin-ebadi/>),
and this man is one of them:
<http://almusawwir.org/>. I take it that his artistic endeavor is to
attend to everyday holiness in photography.
He created a flash presentation of Dua Ahad, a prayer that is a "plea
is for an end to oppression, and for justice":
<http://almusawwir.org/dua-ahad/>.
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Yoshie
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