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art

Miyamoto Musashi

Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584–1645) was a legendary Japanese swordsman, philosopher, artist, and ronin whose life became the stuff of both history and myth. Undefeated in over sixty duels, Musashi was a master of strategy whose innovation, adaptability, and relentless practice made him the Paganini of the sword: a virtuoso whose craft rose far beyond mere […]

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Philosophy

Pandemic Reveals Underlying Gender Inequalities

Context: Pandemic Makes Evident ‘Grotesque’ Gender Inequality In Household Work No surprise, then, that undergoing traumatic paroxysms of existential stress in this pandemic has caused all those unacknowledged (and yet – hardly unknown) faultlines and inequitable socioeconomic discontinuities to percolate into awareness; cultural artefacts like some neurotic’s once poorly-masked behavioural anachronisms, endlessly and problematically oscillating […]

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culture

Counter-culture as Useful Entropy

The dissonance of difference serves useful purposes for the continuity of cultural sytems.

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culture

Virtual Machine: Sub-Cultures

I like the way that when Japanese do sub-culture, they don’t hold back or go anything like half-way…