Until now I have not written anything interesting or simply something that demands minimum cerebral cooperation, but I promise the blog will adress more interesting issues circumventing most of the idiotic crap you normally find on a blog.
And check the new gadget of interesting facts on tha bottom of the page.
Friday, 24 September 2010
Suit Up Because This Finding Is Gonna Be Legen.... Wait For It! ...dary!!!
How I met your mother it's ( as absolutely anyone worthy of living knows) an american situation comedy (sitcom) that premiered on CBS and bla bla bla. Lets get to the good stuff, yes to le creme brulee of the show, to "The Guy", the number one Bro yes we are talking about barney stinson.
So I was bored as fucking hell trying to quench my necesity for anykind of mental activity when i discovered the grail of all the "blogs" thats right i found the mother pearl "The barnacle's" one and only famous blog:
There are a lot of AWESOME "tie-ins" from the shows plot as:
Swarley's attempt to love his new name: http://web.archive.org/web/20061130162824/http://swarley.com/
Ted Mosby's (The Architect) fame with the chicks: http://tedmosbyisajerk.com/
The real Ted Mosby clean up of his name: http://tedmosbyisnotajerk.com/
Lilly and Marsahll sell tehir stuff: http://web.archive.org/web/20080512124250/http://www.charityfolks.com/cfauctions/auction_verticalngo.asp?slrid=76
The barnstormer's resume video: http://www.barneysvideoresume.com/
Canadian sex acts: http://www.canadiansexacts.org/canadian_statement.htm
The Lorenzo Von Matterhorn Scheme to "pick up chicks": http://bigbusinessjournal.com/
Lilly and Marshall's Honeymoon (Unseen Footage): http://www.marshallandlilywedding.com/
And last but not least: http://www.guyforceshiswifetodressinagarbagebagforthenextthreeyears.com/
So that is it for now hope you enjoy them as much as i did, you can also find the bro code on http://www.amazon.com/
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Adams's Family "Thing T. Thing's" provenance
It was never made clear exactly what Thing was, whether some sort of actual creature or a somehow reanimated hand from some human person. Thing was Gomez's friend since childhood, it was based on a New Yorker cartoon that depicted a shocked mailman reacting to a sign posted on the Addams mansion which warned "Beware of the Thing". While developing the series, Charles Addams was asked what, exactly, was the "thing"? He opined that "thing" was a disembodied head that rolled through the house on various ramps and pulleys. It was decided that a hand would be a bit more palatable. This was to prove a source of some terrible puns.
There is an Unusual neurological disorder called Alien Hand Syndrome in which the sufferer's hand seems to take a mind of its own, They feel that they have no control over the movements of the 'alien' hand, but that, instead, the hand has the capability of acting autonomously independently of the sufferer's will. The hand effectively has 'a will of its own.' Alien hands can perform complex acts such as undoing buttons, removing clothing, and manipulating tools. Sometimes the sufferer will not be aware of what the alien hand is doing until it is brought to his or her attention, or until the hand does something that draws their attention to its behavior.
Sufferers of alien hand will often personify the rogue limb, for example believing it to be "possessed" by some intelligent or alien spirit or an entity that they may name or identify. There is a clear distinction between the behaviors of the two hands in which the affected hand is viewed as "wayward" and sometimes "disobedient" and generally out of the realm of their own voluntary control, while the unaffected hand is under normal volitional control ( In Psychology Volition or Will is the cognitive process by which an individual decides on and commits to a particular course of action.). At times, particularly in patients who have sustained damage to the Corpus Callosum ( that which connects the two Cerebral Hemispheres), the hands appear to be acting in opposition to each other. For example, one patient was observed putting a cigarette into her mouth with her intact, 'controlled' hand (her right, dominant hand), following which her alien, non-dominant, left hand came up to grasp the cigarette, pull the cigarette out of her mouth, and toss it away before it could be lit by the controlled, dominant, right hand. The patient then surmised that "I guess 'he' doesn't want me to smoke that cigarette." This type of problem has been termed "intermanual conflict" or "diagonistic Ideomotor Apraxia"
It is theorized that alien hand syndrome results when disconnection occurs between different parts of the brain that are engaged in different aspects of the control of bodily movement. As a result, different regions of the brain are able to command bodily movements, but cannot generate a conscious feeling of self-control over these movements. As a result, the "sense of agency" (It is the pre-reflective awareness or implicit sense that it is me who is presently executing bodily movements or thinking thoughts) that is normally associated with voluntary movement is impaired or lost. There is thus a dissociation between the process associated with the actual execution of the physical movements of the limb and the process that produces an internal sense of voluntary control over the movements, with this latter process thus normally creating the internal conscious sensation that the movements are being internally initiated, controlled and produced by an active self.
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There is an Unusual neurological disorder called Alien Hand Syndrome in which the sufferer's hand seems to take a mind of its own, They feel that they have no control over the movements of the 'alien' hand, but that, instead, the hand has the capability of acting autonomously independently of the sufferer's will. The hand effectively has 'a will of its own.' Alien hands can perform complex acts such as undoing buttons, removing clothing, and manipulating tools. Sometimes the sufferer will not be aware of what the alien hand is doing until it is brought to his or her attention, or until the hand does something that draws their attention to its behavior.
Sufferers of alien hand will often personify the rogue limb, for example believing it to be "possessed" by some intelligent or alien spirit or an entity that they may name or identify. There is a clear distinction between the behaviors of the two hands in which the affected hand is viewed as "wayward" and sometimes "disobedient" and generally out of the realm of their own voluntary control, while the unaffected hand is under normal volitional control ( In Psychology Volition or Will is the cognitive process by which an individual decides on and commits to a particular course of action.). At times, particularly in patients who have sustained damage to the Corpus Callosum ( that which connects the two Cerebral Hemispheres), the hands appear to be acting in opposition to each other. For example, one patient was observed putting a cigarette into her mouth with her intact, 'controlled' hand (her right, dominant hand), following which her alien, non-dominant, left hand came up to grasp the cigarette, pull the cigarette out of her mouth, and toss it away before it could be lit by the controlled, dominant, right hand. The patient then surmised that "I guess 'he' doesn't want me to smoke that cigarette." This type of problem has been termed "intermanual conflict" or "diagonistic Ideomotor Apraxia"
It is theorized that alien hand syndrome results when disconnection occurs between different parts of the brain that are engaged in different aspects of the control of bodily movement. As a result, different regions of the brain are able to command bodily movements, but cannot generate a conscious feeling of self-control over these movements. As a result, the "sense of agency" (It is the pre-reflective awareness or implicit sense that it is me who is presently executing bodily movements or thinking thoughts) that is normally associated with voluntary movement is impaired or lost. There is thus a dissociation between the process associated with the actual execution of the physical movements of the limb and the process that produces an internal sense of voluntary control over the movements, with this latter process thus normally creating the internal conscious sensation that the movements are being internally initiated, controlled and produced by an active self.
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Sunday, 12 September 2010
Firecracking Frogs With The Bush Family
May the fifteen of 1895, the world watched in horror as one of the msot machiavelic minds in history wear born. Wall Street executive banker, and a United States Senator representing Connecticut from 1952 until January 1963, Presscot Sheldon Bush, son of Samuel Presscot Bush and Flora Sheldon Bush.
Samuel Bush was a railroad executive, then a steel company president, and, during World War I, also a federal government official in charge of coordination and assistance to major weapons contractors. Samuel send his son Prescott to Yale in 1913 where he was admitted into the "skulls and bones" secret society (he was also president of the Yale Glee Club). After his graduation Prescott Bush served as a field artillery captain with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I, where he received intelligence training at Verdun, France, and was briefly assigned to a staff of French officers. Alternating between intelligence and artillery.
( too Drunk to finish it,wait for an update)
Friday, 10 September 2010
I'm having a fucking tea party, what does it look like I'm doing?
We all are HUGE fans of the series, and we all miss it, anxiously crying for the movie release that each day passed it slips another day further. We became fanatics in santayana's sense, we are redoubling our efforts to keep the plus-de jouir after loosing the finality (enjoying it!) of the series. This a list of fan sites which purpose is preserving the jouissance provoked by the incommensurable quantity of jokes and puns you find in the series. Such a quantity of fan-powered site its only another proof of our need to obey the injuction to enjoy these "deliciously witty" jokes.
http://www.arrestedevelopment.com/
http://www.bluthfamily.com/
http://arresteddevelopmentdoc.com/
http://www.arresteddevelopmentblog.com/
http://www.thebananastand.net/
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hollywood-phd/201008/arrested-development-psychology
http://www.arresteddevelopmentclan.com/
http://arresteddevelopment.wetpaint.com/
http://www.savearresteddevelopment.org/
http://www.arresteddevelopmentfanclub.com/
http://www.arresteddevelopmentjokes.com/
http://arresteddevelopment.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Johny Quest's Enemies Were Goverment Funded?
We all remember Johny Quest being persecuted by his enemies on sophisticated garbage can-looking "verti-pods" which we all (even at a tender age) saw as idiotic fiction.
I mean please a one man flying machine for transporting soldiers, technology that would make rich the madmen who had ivented them, so why he didn't sell them instead in the global market get rich and marry a super model huh? senseless imagination is it? It seems that during the 50s and 60s the U.S. Goverment spent considerable resources and time developing these powerful Scouting and observational advantages! Looking to obtain unprecedented freedom of movement for infantryman in the battlefield.
It was the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) who started the resaerch on such technology. After some encouraging results in the laboratory using compressed air, several companies went on to build experimental vehicles. This brief fad of military aviation gave rise to a number of unique contraptions, including such unlikely inventions as backpack helicopters, hovering platforms, and flying jeeps (yes when they say all terrain, they DO mean All Terrain).
Engineer Charles H. Zimmerman, was the man who determined that a helicopter-style vehicle would be significantly more stable if the rotors were mounted on the bottom rather than on top. He also suggested that a human’s innate “kinesthetic control,” would help to keep such a machine upright.
Among the first flying platforms was the HZ-1 Aerocycle from De Lackner. It used a forty horsepower outboard motor to turn two counter-rotating helicopter blades. The two opposing rotors cancelled one another’s torque, allowing the mounted platform to maintain orientation rather than spinning. Directional control was achieved by leaning in the desired direction of travel, with a maximum velocity of 65-70mph more than enough to crack your skull open. A similar prototype was the VZ-1 Pawnee developed by Hiller Aviation, using two 44 horsepower engines, the platform was lifted by two counter-rotating five-foot-wide rotors in a round enclosure, a configuration known as a ducted fan.
The VZ-8 took the all terrain concept to a whole new level, the air. It was built around two ducted fans driven by a pair of 180 horsepower engines. Both power plants were connected to a single central gearbox so that both rotors would continue to turn even if one engine failed. Piasecki designed the airgeep Controls very much like conventional helicopter controls. Although the Airgeep was intended to operate within a few feet of the ground it was also capable of flying at altitudes of several thousand feet. The Airgeep was a very stable weapons platform and could hover or fly around most any obstacle. A larger, more powerful version called the Airgeep II was developed in 1962, and it proved even more capable. Further evaluation of the concept, however, led the Army to conclude that the design lacked the ruggedness and flexibility of conventional helicopters, and that its maintenance demands were too high. The Airgeep was abandoned in the early 1960s.
Later Williams Research Corporation’s WASP (Williams Aerial Survey Platform), later named the X-Jet, was the result of fifteen years of development. With the pilot standing on the fuel tank and a 600-pound turbofan engine mounted in front of him. Performance of the WASP was impressive, with a speed of 60 mph and a service ceiling of 10,000 feet. Maximum flight time was just over 30 minutes. The craft was listed in Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft as late as the 1985 edition but once again the army, which had financed its development, lost interest.
By the 1970s the US military largely abandoned such flights of fancy. Although a one- or two-man light aircraft was an intriguing concept, all of the vehicles shared common weaknesses in regards to maintenance, noise level, vulnerability, and the lack of practical applications. There were also very valid concerns about the stability of the small aircraft in windy conditions. Examples of these unique military aircraft can currently be found at aviation museums all over the country.
I mean please a one man flying machine for transporting soldiers, technology that would make rich the madmen who had ivented them, so why he didn't sell them instead in the global market get rich and marry a super model huh? senseless imagination is it? It seems that during the 50s and 60s the U.S. Goverment spent considerable resources and time developing these powerful Scouting and observational advantages! Looking to obtain unprecedented freedom of movement for infantryman in the battlefield.
It was the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) who started the resaerch on such technology. After some encouraging results in the laboratory using compressed air, several companies went on to build experimental vehicles. This brief fad of military aviation gave rise to a number of unique contraptions, including such unlikely inventions as backpack helicopters, hovering platforms, and flying jeeps (yes when they say all terrain, they DO mean All Terrain).
Engineer Charles H. Zimmerman, was the man who determined that a helicopter-style vehicle would be significantly more stable if the rotors were mounted on the bottom rather than on top. He also suggested that a human’s innate “kinesthetic control,” would help to keep such a machine upright.
Among the first flying platforms was the HZ-1 Aerocycle from De Lackner. It used a forty horsepower outboard motor to turn two counter-rotating helicopter blades. The two opposing rotors cancelled one another’s torque, allowing the mounted platform to maintain orientation rather than spinning. Directional control was achieved by leaning in the desired direction of travel, with a maximum velocity of 65-70mph more than enough to crack your skull open. A similar prototype was the VZ-1 Pawnee developed by Hiller Aviation, using two 44 horsepower engines, the platform was lifted by two counter-rotating five-foot-wide rotors in a round enclosure, a configuration known as a ducted fan.
The VZ-8 took the all terrain concept to a whole new level, the air. It was built around two ducted fans driven by a pair of 180 horsepower engines. Both power plants were connected to a single central gearbox so that both rotors would continue to turn even if one engine failed. Piasecki designed the airgeep Controls very much like conventional helicopter controls. Although the Airgeep was intended to operate within a few feet of the ground it was also capable of flying at altitudes of several thousand feet. The Airgeep was a very stable weapons platform and could hover or fly around most any obstacle. A larger, more powerful version called the Airgeep II was developed in 1962, and it proved even more capable. Further evaluation of the concept, however, led the Army to conclude that the design lacked the ruggedness and flexibility of conventional helicopters, and that its maintenance demands were too high. The Airgeep was abandoned in the early 1960s.
Later Williams Research Corporation’s WASP (Williams Aerial Survey Platform), later named the X-Jet, was the result of fifteen years of development. With the pilot standing on the fuel tank and a 600-pound turbofan engine mounted in front of him. Performance of the WASP was impressive, with a speed of 60 mph and a service ceiling of 10,000 feet. Maximum flight time was just over 30 minutes. The craft was listed in Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft as late as the 1985 edition but once again the army, which had financed its development, lost interest.
By the 1970s the US military largely abandoned such flights of fancy. Although a one- or two-man light aircraft was an intriguing concept, all of the vehicles shared common weaknesses in regards to maintenance, noise level, vulnerability, and the lack of practical applications. There were also very valid concerns about the stability of the small aircraft in windy conditions. Examples of these unique military aircraft can currently be found at aviation museums all over the country.
Antonov Kt-40 Damn Col. Hannibal Smith!
A prototype was built and tested in 1942, but was found to be unworkable. This vehicle is sometimes called the A-40T or KT.
The Antonov A-40 Krylya Tanka ("tank wings") was a Soviet attempt during world war II to allow a tank to glide into a battlefield after being towed aloft by a Petlyakov Pe-8 or Tupolev TB-3. A T-60 light tank bearing large wood and fabric biplane wings and twin tail. Bombers would tow the tank to its destination and then release it as a nasty surprise for German troops. Supposedly elevating the gun for elevator control and rotating the turret for roll control maneuvered the KT-40. It had a crew of two, a tank commander and a driver/pilot. The tank was lightened for air use by removing armament, ammunition, headlights and leaving a very limited amount of fuel. Even with the modifications, the TB-3 bomber had to ditch the glider during its only flight on September 2, 1942 to avoid crashing, due to the T-60's extreme drag (although the tank reportedly glided smoothly). Piloted by the famous Soviet experimental glider pilot Sergei Anokhin. The T-60 landed on a field near the airdrome, and after dropping the glider wings and tail, the driver returned it to its base. Due to the lack of sufficiently-powerful aircraft to tow it at the required 160 km/h, the project was abandoned. But despite the technical success of the test, the flying tank was not to go into production. The Soviets lacked a plane up to the task of towing the heavy KT-40. Also the T-60 tank wasn’t much of a tank. In order to lighten the tank sufficiently and get it off the ground, it was allowed very little armour, and had to be stripped of most of its armament and fuel. Such a poorly equipped tank wouldn’t have survived long against most German tanks.
The Soviet Union continued to develop methods to efficiently deploy airborne vehicles. By the mid-1970s they were able to para-drop BMD-1 fighting vehicles with crew members aboard
The Anatomy of the Kraken
"THE KRAKEN RUM is strong, rich, black and smooth."
Proximo Spirits (Centenario Tequila, Tequila 1800) launched a Black Spiced Rum "Named for a sea beast of myth and legend, The Kraken."
The Kraken Black Spiced Rum is a well-crafted spirit. Sippable in a way that many moderately priced rums aren't, it is rich and full of flavor, like drinking a good coffee cocktail. The finish is long and refreshing. This is not simply a rum-and-coke throwaway. As usual, the first impression Kraken makes is while it’s still in the bottle. A custom, replica of a semi-squat Victorian Rum bottle featuring two distinctive “earlobe” handles, it boasts an old-style label with a large Architeuthis dragging a tiny galleon to the depth. Spirits are about the whole experience, bottle to baño, floor to hang over, so the bottle and label of the rum matters, and Kraken wins bigtime At this point I really need to applaud Kraken for their excellent choice of mascot. The kraken motif is a fine way of capturing the ocean-dwelling spirit of rum. A drink as strong and dark as kraken ink. And, yeah, at 94 proof and laden with flavor, perhaps it is. The Kraken is a truly monstrous hit with chocolate and molasses, cut with Christmas spices (cinnamon and allspice), cloves and maybe even some ginger. Vanilla is big on the finish. The effect is quite impressive, and any spiced rum fan will get a big kick out of The Kraken. Again, at 94 proof ( 47 % Alcohol), it needs a bit of water if you're sipping it straight.
"The Kraken™ is imported black rum from the Caribbean and blended with over 11 secret spices. The rum takes its name from the mythical sea beast which is said to have wreaked havoc with tall ships and rum running vessels throughout history."
From "Mumble-Jumble Rosseta stone" to "languag savior Rosseta disk".
The Rosetta Project is The Long Now Foundation's first exploration into very long-term archiving. It serves as a means to focus attention on the problem of digital obsolescence, and ways we might address that problem through creative archival storage methods. The first prototype of a very long-term archive is The Rosetta Disk - a three inch diameter nickel disk with nearly 14,000 pages of information microscopically etched onto its surface. Since each page is an image, rather than a digital encoding of 1's and 0's, it can be read by the human eye using 500 power optical magnification. The disk rests in a sphere made of stainless steel and glass which allows the disk exposure to the atmosphere, but protects it from casual impact and abrasion. With minimal care, it could easily last and be legible for thousands of years.
"The micro-etched Rosetta Disk has two sides. One side, meant to be a guide to the contents
of the disk, and is etched with a central image of the earth and a message written in eight
major world languages (Arabic, English, Hindi, Indonesian, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish and
Swahili): "Languages of the World: This is an archive of over 1,500 human languages
assembled in the year 02008 C.E. Magnify 1,000 times to find over 13,000 pages of language
documentation." The text begins at eye-readable scale and spirals down to microscopic
scale. This tapered ring of languages is intended to maximize the number of people that will
be able to read something immediately upon picking up the Disk, as well as implying the
directions for using it—'get a magnifier and there is more.' Between the spiral text and the
globe graphic are columns of text that include an index listing the 1,500 languages that have
data on the reverse side of the disk. These are arranged alphabetically by geographic region.
On the reverse side of the disk from the globe graphic are over 13,000 microetched pages of
language documentation. Each page is .019 inches, or half a millimeter, across. This is about
equal in width to 5 human hairs, and can be read with a 650X microscope (individual pages
are clearly visible with 100X magnification). The pages are arranged by geographic region,
country and alphabetically by language name. The bottom 20% of the disk is filled with lists
of vocabulary for the languages on the disk.
An easy way to show people the contents of the disk is to use the enclosed DVD, which
allows you to browse both sides of the disk, and zoom all the way down to view the microscopic content."
( Excerpt from: Care and Feeding of Your Rosetta Disk
by Laura Welcher Director of The Rosetta Project.)
A One time Giant Of German Idealism
Cassirer was born on July 28, 1874, to a wealthy and cosmopolitan Jewish family, in the German city of Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland). Cassirer entered the University of Berlin in 1892 After learning of Cohen's writings from Georg Simmel, Cassirer (then nineteen years old) proceeded to devour them, whereupon he immediately resolved to study with Cohen at Marburg. He studied at Marburg from 1896 to 1899, when he completed his doctoral work with a dissertation on Descartes's analysis of mathematical and natural scientific knowledge.
In 1919 Cassirer was offered professorships at two newly founded universities at Frankfurt and Hamburg under the auspices of the Weimar Republic. He taught at Hamburg from 1919 until emigrating from Germany in 1933. During these years Cassirer completed his three-volume Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. In 1929-30 he served as the rector of the University, as the first Jew to hold such a position in Germany. In the Spring of 1929 Cassirer took part in a famous disputation with Martin Heidegger in Davos, Switzerland, Nevertheless, despite their deep disagreements, Cassirer and Heidegger enjoyed friendly philosophical relations until Cassirer's emigration in 1933. After his emigration Cassirer spent two years lecturing at Oxford and then six years at the University of Göteborg in Sweden. During this time he developed his most sustained discussion of morality and the philosophy of law as a study of the Swedish legal philosopher Axel Hägerström.
Cassirer, like so many German émigrés during this period then finally settled in the United States. He taught at Yale from 1941 to 1944 and at Columbia in 1944-45. During these years he produced two books in English , where the first, An Essay on Man, serves as a concise introduction to the philosophy of symbolic forms (and thus Cassirer's distinctive philosophical perspective) as a whole and the second, The Myth of the State, offers an explanation of the rise of fascism on the basis of Cassirer's conception of mythical thought.
Died of a heart attack while walking on the streets of New York City on April 13, 1945.
At Hamburg Cassirer found Library of the Cultural Sciences founded by Aby Warburg a tremendous resource for the next stage in his philosophical development on the philosophy of symbolic forms. Philosophy of Symbolic Forms itself appeared, in 1923, 1925, and 1929 respectively.The philosophy of symbolic forms is oriented towards the much more general “fact of culture” and thus takes the history of human culture as a whole as its ultimate given datum.
Characteristic of the philosophy of symbolic forms is a concern for the more “primitive” forms of world-presentation underlying the “higher” and more sophisticated cultural forms — a concern for the ordinary perceptual awareness of the world expressed primarily in natural language, and, above all, for the mythical view of the world lying at the most primitive level of all. For Cassirer, these more primitive manifestations of “symbolic meaning” now have an independent status and foundational role that is quite incompatible with both Marburg neo-Kantianism and Kant's original philosophical conception.
(The Beatiful caricature was drawn by G. J. Southwell)
In 1919 Cassirer was offered professorships at two newly founded universities at Frankfurt and Hamburg under the auspices of the Weimar Republic. He taught at Hamburg from 1919 until emigrating from Germany in 1933. During these years Cassirer completed his three-volume Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. In 1929-30 he served as the rector of the University, as the first Jew to hold such a position in Germany. In the Spring of 1929 Cassirer took part in a famous disputation with Martin Heidegger in Davos, Switzerland, Nevertheless, despite their deep disagreements, Cassirer and Heidegger enjoyed friendly philosophical relations until Cassirer's emigration in 1933. After his emigration Cassirer spent two years lecturing at Oxford and then six years at the University of Göteborg in Sweden. During this time he developed his most sustained discussion of morality and the philosophy of law as a study of the Swedish legal philosopher Axel Hägerström.
Cassirer, like so many German émigrés during this period then finally settled in the United States. He taught at Yale from 1941 to 1944 and at Columbia in 1944-45. During these years he produced two books in English , where the first, An Essay on Man, serves as a concise introduction to the philosophy of symbolic forms (and thus Cassirer's distinctive philosophical perspective) as a whole and the second, The Myth of the State, offers an explanation of the rise of fascism on the basis of Cassirer's conception of mythical thought.
Died of a heart attack while walking on the streets of New York City on April 13, 1945.
At Hamburg Cassirer found Library of the Cultural Sciences founded by Aby Warburg a tremendous resource for the next stage in his philosophical development on the philosophy of symbolic forms. Philosophy of Symbolic Forms itself appeared, in 1923, 1925, and 1929 respectively.The philosophy of symbolic forms is oriented towards the much more general “fact of culture” and thus takes the history of human culture as a whole as its ultimate given datum.
Characteristic of the philosophy of symbolic forms is a concern for the more “primitive” forms of world-presentation underlying the “higher” and more sophisticated cultural forms — a concern for the ordinary perceptual awareness of the world expressed primarily in natural language, and, above all, for the mythical view of the world lying at the most primitive level of all. For Cassirer, these more primitive manifestations of “symbolic meaning” now have an independent status and foundational role that is quite incompatible with both Marburg neo-Kantianism and Kant's original philosophical conception.
(The Beatiful caricature was drawn by G. J. Southwell)
Gettin' Started!
Don’t begin your poem the way the old
Cyclic “Homeric” poets saw fit to do it:
“I sing of the famous war and Priam’s fate.”
What’s to come out of the mouth of such a boaster?
The mountain labored and brought forth a mouse.
Ridiculous. He does much better who doesn’t
Try so hard or make such grandiose claims:
“Muse, tell me about the man who, after Troy,
Witnessed the ways of men in other places.”
His aim is light from smoke, not smoke from fire,
To make the wonders he tells of—Scylla, Charybdis,
Antiphates, the Cyclops—shine more brightly.
To tell Diomedes’ story he doesn’t think
He has to start with the death of the hero’s uncle,
Or start, in telling about the Trojan War,
By telling us how Helen came out of an egg.
He goes right to the point and carries the reader
Into the midst of things, as if known already;
And if there’s material that he despairs of presenting
So as to shine for us, he leaves it out;
And he makes his whole poem one. What’s true, what’s invented,
Beginning, middle, and end, all fit together.
-Horace, ars poetica,Book III.
I know of no better words to start this blog which aim is to elucidate
and quench the void that now sits on the dark corners of the human skull.
I am sailing the same charts abusing the richness of never ending
superimpositions in time, accosting face to face the words of one
myriad of great minds that even though never abide the same time they
did consent the same interests.
Cyclic “Homeric” poets saw fit to do it:
“I sing of the famous war and Priam’s fate.”
What’s to come out of the mouth of such a boaster?
The mountain labored and brought forth a mouse.
Ridiculous. He does much better who doesn’t
Try so hard or make such grandiose claims:
“Muse, tell me about the man who, after Troy,
Witnessed the ways of men in other places.”
His aim is light from smoke, not smoke from fire,
To make the wonders he tells of—Scylla, Charybdis,
Antiphates, the Cyclops—shine more brightly.
To tell Diomedes’ story he doesn’t think
He has to start with the death of the hero’s uncle,
Or start, in telling about the Trojan War,
By telling us how Helen came out of an egg.
He goes right to the point and carries the reader
Into the midst of things, as if known already;
And if there’s material that he despairs of presenting
So as to shine for us, he leaves it out;
And he makes his whole poem one. What’s true, what’s invented,
Beginning, middle, and end, all fit together.
-Horace, ars poetica,Book III.
I know of no better words to start this blog which aim is to elucidate
and quench the void that now sits on the dark corners of the human skull.
I am sailing the same charts abusing the richness of never ending
superimpositions in time, accosting face to face the words of one
myriad of great minds that even though never abide the same time they
did consent the same interests.
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