Art represents the new world.
Conscious activity starts before humans.
Art as conscious activity started with ritual. Nowadays are most close to that performing arts (performances).
Performing a ritual creates harmony. It is for making harmony and not for destroying. And our world need harmony and positive rituals right now.

Temple plan like ( Read more... )

Pussy Riots virus deserves it's own post. I think.

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Channels of perception.
Perceive by doing handwork. Hand - brain - they co-evolved. First communication channel is tactile. We move around in environment and are getting feed-back. Initial creative impulse, that urge to do something and this all starts with tactile perception. First expressive channel of body language is tactile.

Art definition: art ( Read more... )

We live in hypertext - hyper textuality.
Any culture, text, message is overwritted culture, text, message -> hermeneutics -> nothing new in this world
Juri Lotman: There isn't any beginning of culture - every start of culture is end of other culture.
Semiosphere is whole - nothing comes in, nothing disappears - everything can be reconstructed. Only ( Read more... )

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How I got to know that magpie is my totem animal.

I have lived very long time in countryside and we have our own house. Since we moved there, different kind of birds had surrounded me. We had our own ducks and chickens plus different kinds of wild birds. And I think, there has been always magpie nest top of the tree, what is front our house. So ( Read more... )

Theatrical parody

Anthropomorphism - rabbit, but looks like human and acts like human
Rabbit in culture - what kind of properties have - coward, frightened, runs fast - and witch kind of rabbit is in this cartoon?

Intertextuality: folk traditions are mixed with high culture such as opera, duel culture, uses quotes from Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" ( Read more... )

Mnemonic devices - analyze yourself how and why something happened and consciously work with that information

Mind the gap: most important question is WHAT IS SIGNIFIED? and HOW IT IS SIGNIFIED?

If functional things, pragmatic things lose their function their use they stop being functional and become symbolic or mimic

If “ lost glove club” can be ( Read more... )

Different species of magpies

Holarctic (black-and-white) magpies

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  Genus Pica
  
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    Eurasian/European Magpie, Pica pica
    
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    Black-billed Magpie, Pica hudsonia (may be conspecific with P. pica)
    
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    Yellow-billed Magpie, Pica nuttalli (may be conspecific with P. (pica) hudsonia)
    
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    Korean Magpie, Pica sericea (may be conspecific with P. pica)
    
    

A Zed and Two Noughts

Text in text:
Documentary - “Beginning of Life”
Television
C. Darwin - On the Origin of Species
Newspapers
Zoo as text

Main Themes:
Nature - Culture
Car accident caused by swan - nature is dangerous, it has to be locked down, captured.
Zoo as captured nature, “cultured” nature, domesticated nature.

People in the Zoo - as ( Read more... )