Died this day

Oh my god!

Lift to Experience, Just As Was Told

Kitagawa Utamaro, The Courtesan Ichikawa of the Matsuba Establishment, 1700s

Tripitaka Koreana, Haeinsa Temple, South Korea

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Gyôja Bushô of Seika-ken, brown-skinned and half-naked, killing a huge tiger with his bare fists at the hill of Keiyô, 1820s

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, The Ghost of Taira no Tomomori, 1860s

Born this day

Maia Ramishvili

Boston Dynamics, Atlas, the next generation

In terms of influence, Gramsci is up there with Goffman, Stuart Hall, Rawls and Sarte for me.

Cultural Hegemony

Tacita Dean, Beautiful Sheffield, 2001

Born this day

"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Schopenhauer in March 1859

Metallica, Fade to Black

Vincent Laforet, New York

Born this day

"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." ~ H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

Ivan Aivazovsky, The Black Sea at Night, 1879

Sebald Beham, The Head of Christ Crowned with Thorns, ~1520

Toyen, Phantom-Object, 1937

Bohren & der Club of Gore, Mitleid Lady