...we Must Be Very Careful Not To Exaggerate The Uniqueness Of Our Species. The Ancients Apparently Never
...we must be very careful not to exaggerate the uniqueness of our species. The ancients apparently never gave much thought to this practice, the opposite of anthropomorphism, and so we lack a word for it. I will call it anthropodenial: a blindness to the humanlike characteristics of other animals, or the animal-like characteristics of ourselves.
Frans de Waal
More Posts from Ilunado and Others
Paz en la lluvia, sí...
¡Buena noticia!
After nearly two years behind bars and much international outcry on their behalf, the two imprisoned members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot were released from Russian jail this morning.
Había tardes en que la ciudad
como en estado de sitio
a causa del calor
no me impedía llegar hasta ti
y el estado de sitio
y el soldado arriba armado
mientras yo perseguía muros altos
para refugiarme
y el soldado arriba armado
hasta que podía encontrarte
y el estado de sitio
Pero no lo creas
Porque otras veces a mitad de la calle…
Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is to me, more interesting, than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human. It touches the bad and the dirty side of people.
Miuccia Prada, T Magazine “Culture” 2013 (via dinnerwithannawintour)
Todavía necesito, muchas veces, una guía para traducir de gesto-italiano a... ¡cualquier otra cosa!
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/bcvideo/1.0/iframe/embed.html?videoId=100000002309793&playerType=embed
Lovely short New York Times video on Italian hand-gestures, second only to legendary graphic designer Bruno Munari’s 1958 gem, Speak Italian: The Fine Art of The Hand Gesture.
Day 39 _ Bicycle.
»eunoia« by christian bök (+)
read it online for free
the word ‘eunoia,’ which literally means ‘beautiful thinking,’ is the shortest word in english that contains all five vowels. directly inspired by the oulipo (l’ouvroir de littérature potentielle), a french writers’ group interested in experimenting with different forms of literary constraint, eunoia is a five-chapter book in which each chapter is a univocal lipogram – the first chapter has a as its only vowel, the second chapter e, etc. each vowel takes on a distinct personality: the i is egotistical and romantic, the o jocular and obscene, the e elegiac and epic.
buy it here
Luna en rotación, como nunca la has visto...
That's the question...
-
sikomoro liked this · 8 years ago -
ilunado reblogged this · 10 years ago
