Friday, February 14, 2025

At the break of dawn

5 comments:

  1. Thanks Bill.
    I liked the pansy in your latest draft. Not because it is a pansy, because it breaks w convention and sets a tone.

    "And there’s another thing. My other passion is street photography. Which is a bit like blogging."
    From..
    "Why Blog If Nobody Reads It?
    05 Feb, 2025
    ...
    There is a hidden value in blogging. There’s an old Zen saying: “Chop wood, carry water.” You do it not for the applause but because it needs doing.
    ...
    https://andysblog.uk/why-blog-if-nobody-reads-it/

    Why blog if nobody reads it? (andysblog.uk)760 points by alexgiann 5 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 357 comments
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42992159

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    1. The pansy is an allusion to the French cover of a book by Claude Lévi-Strauss which was translated into English as The Savage Mind. That book was very influential for my in my undergraduate years. Here's a link to the book: https://www.amazon.com/Pensee-Sauvage-Claude-L%C3%A9vi-Strauss/dp/2259002110

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  2. Here is a no tracking, no trickle up, sans neocapitalists, sans enshitification link...
    The Savage Mind (French: La Pensée sauvage), also translated as Wild Thought, is a 1962 work of structural anthropologyby the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss.
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Savage_Mind

    Which leads to...
    "Reading Notes on 
    Deleuze and Guattari 
    Capitalism & Schizophrenia"
    https://people.duke.edu/~hardt/Deleuze&Guattari.html
    Thanks.

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    1. My Lévi-Strauss posts: https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/search/label/L%C3%A9vi-Strauss

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    2. Luxury Bill. Thanks.
      This...
      Some Recent Work on Lévi-Strauss and Myth
      https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2023/11/some-recent-work-on-levi-strauss-and.html

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