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...audience enough time to explore ideas in-depth and parse out the details of the arguments. Taylor is justified, then, in the fast-paced aspect of her endeavor—with only 10 minutes to talk through their ideas, none of these thinkers are about to make a philosophical break-through. Ronell tells a helpful anecdote about Heidegger’s abandonment of what he believed to be institutionalized philosophy in favor of simply thinking. Indeed, Taylor’s film presents nothing like a close reading of “Being and Time,” but it does...
...References to “power objects”—objects enlivened with energy—abound in his work.In his installation, “Mandala of the Bodhisattva II,” Biggers fashioned a floor after a Buddhist mandala, a spiritual emblem, and then asked break dancers to perform on it. In “Hip Hop Ni Sasagu (In Fond Memory of Hip-Hop),” he staged a chorus of orin, traditional singing bowls, in a Japanese temple. These orin were made from melted hip-hop jewelry. “My artwork provides...
...plate. Here I was, face to face with an eminent professor of the English language, and I found myself missing Gchat. Gchat would give me time to Google his reference to some Florentine poet I’d never heard of. It would even allow me to take a break from talking to watch “David after Dentist.” But, now, trapped in the actual world where remarks were not merely lines of text to be answered or ignored at will, I stared helplessly into my salad, hoping some form of witty discourse would manifest itself...
With the major budget cuts and freezes at Harvard, few students said they were surprised that the College would not want to spend more money on January programming. But some students said they had hoped the administration would allow students to stay on campus over break to participate in activities organized by student groups, such as the Institute of Politics...
...Yosano, the stimulus package marks something of a break with the past. He has a reputation as a deficit hawk. As recently as 2006, when minister of the economy, he moved to slash government expenditure 40% over five years, balance the budget by 2012 and double the consumption tax to 10% by 2015. In the light of Japan's economic meltdown, all that has changed. Like other deficit-busters, Yosano has turned to old-fashioned Keynesian demand management to kick-start the economy. "He shifted completely to say that to get over this crisis we need a big stimulus package...