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POPSAlfred Wallis: Painter and Mariner A life story, by the way, which I read some years ago after visiting an exhibition, which is amazing. As I recall, his main media were six pots of acrylic paint from the local hardware store, and the backs of cereal boxes.
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POPSThe World Needs Faith and Reason, science and religion Pithy article. There has been much interesting debate on CM about science and reason. I thought that by throwing in this viewpoint of a scientist, the possibility of comments motivated by precise delineation and fairly tight holding frames may arise.
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POPSThe Politics of ME,ME,ME <<<In this sense such internet politics is not just self-defeating but also profoundly exclusionary. Only those who are similarly versed in the minutiae of the conflict can participate fully. How telling that the supposedly democratising force of the internet should be subverted in this way! This is politics for insiders. Indeed, the ranks of the insiders may have been swelled by the internet, but the cliquishness of this new political class is no better than the more traditional political cliques. Worse, so obsessed is this clique with its endless internal arguments that the need to connect with those on the outside - both the larger citizenry, and those at the sharp end of conflicts - is largely forgotten. What remains is a mode of politics that has abandoned both persuasion and anchorage in reality outside the discursive bubble. >>>
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