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Cloud Poetry

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Latin Prayers

December 08, 2021 02:15 - 5 minutes - 5.01 MB

In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen. AVE MARIA, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei,...

Brunelleschi’s Dome

December 08, 2021 02:15 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MB

Segments from “Brunelleschi’s Dome” by Ross King about the conception and building of Firenze’s Duomo cupola.

Three Wise Poets

December 08, 2021 02:14 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MB

Readings of poems by William Blake, Du Fu, Basho. 10 haiku in the wabi sabi style by Basho (1644). 4 short poems by William Blake (1789). Two poems by world-weary drunkard Du Fu (766)

Two Holy Cynics

December 08, 2021 02:14 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MB

An introduction to Diogenes the Cynic and William Blake’s “The Proverbs of Hell”

Dante’s The Divine Comedy, Canto I

December 08, 2021 02:13 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MB

Dante, Alighieri: A Divina Comédia. Inferno. Canto I. Halfway through his life, the poet Dante finds himself wandering alone in a dark forest, having lost his way on the “true path” (I.10). He says that he does not remember how he lost his way, but he has wandered into a fearful place, a dark and tangled valley. Above, he sees a great hill that seems to offer protection from the shadowed glen. The sun shines down from this hilltop, and Dante attempts to climb toward the light. As he climbs, ...

Sacred Poems

December 08, 2021 02:13 - 10 minutes - 9.88 MB

Sacred poems and songs from G. Van der Leeuw’s “Religion in Essence and Manifestation”

Power and the Sacred

December 08, 2021 02:13 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MB

Segments from G. Van der Leeuw’s “Religion in Essence and Manifestation”, 1938

Theory of Love II

December 08, 2021 02:12 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MB

Segments from Erich Fromm’s “The Art of Loving”

Beauty and Ideal Citizenship

December 08, 2021 02:12 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MB

Segment from “The Melancholy of Race”, where the exoticized vs traditional beauty of Asian Americans is enacted in Hollywood’s only Asian musical, “Flower Drum Song”

Melancholia II

December 08, 2021 02:12 - 6 minutes - 5.79 MB

Segment from “The Melancholy of Race” by Anne Anlin Cheng

Moon Goddess

December 08, 2021 02:11 - 2 minutes - 2.16 MB

Ovid’s description of bathing Goddesses

Melancholia

December 08, 2021 02:11 - 8 minutes - 7.87 MB

Segments from “Melancholy of Race” by Anne Anlin Cheng

Monkey aria

December 08, 2021 02:11 - 12 seconds - 191 KB

Monkey

Theory of Love

December 08, 2021 02:10 - 5 minutes - 5.32 MB

Segments from Erich Fromm’s “The Art of Loving”

History of East Hampton

December 08, 2021 02:10 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MB

From the East Hampton Town website, an introduction to the town.

The Dream and the Underworld

December 08, 2021 02:09 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MB

James Hillman goes back to classical theories in terms of the poetics of mythology. He relates our dreaming life to the myths of the Underworld - the dark side of the soul, its images and shadows - and to the gods and figures of death.

Sapiens

December 08, 2021 02:09 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MB

A brief history of Mankind by Yuval Noah Harari

American Religious Poems

December 08, 2021 02:08 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MB

An Anthology by Harold Bloom and Jesse Zuba

Pharaoh’s Daughter

December 08, 2021 02:08 - 10 minutes - 9.44 MB

44 poems by Nuala Ní Dhomhnail.

Blahblahblah

December 08, 2021 02:07 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MB

Stuff

Environment and Consumption

December 08, 2021 02:05 - 9 minutes - 8.75 MB

Tracing the history of sugar and beef production in global energy consumption.

Play it as it Lays

November 20, 2021 21:54 - 9 minutes - 9.07 MB

Joan Didion

The Most Beautiful job in the world

November 06, 2021 13:03 - 7 minutes - 3.76 MB

An exposé on the violence that the fashion industry perpetuates on its workers, the Earth, the minds and self esteems of people around the world. “This challenging book lays bare the working conditions of the ‘most beautiful job in the world’ showing that exploitation isn’t confined to sweatshops abroad or sexual harassment or models, but exists at the very heart of the powerful symbolic and economic center of fashion.” By Giulia Mensitieri.

Painting beyond Itself

October 28, 2021 12:45 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MB

The Medium in the Post-medium Condition. Collection of essays, edited by Isabelle Graw and Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, 2013

The Shinnecock Indians: A Culture History

August 09, 2021 18:42 - 1 hour - 90.8 MB

Edited by Gaynell Stone, Suffolk County Archaeological Association, 1983

Practice for TV

August 05, 2021 14:25 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MB

Rambling thoughts

Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations

July 30, 2021 15:26 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MB

Interviews and essays compiled for the inauguration of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

Talented Mr. Ripley

July 14, 2021 11:52 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MB

Novella by Patricia Highsmith

Italian practice

July 14, 2021 10:39 - 1 hour - 62 MB

To improve my embarrassing Italian --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Native Peoples of North America

July 12, 2021 14:10 - 1 hour - 61.5 MB

Susan Stebbins, University at Albany, 2013. Native peoples of North America is intended to be an introductory text about the native peoples presented from an anthropological perspective. As such, the text is organized around anthropological concepts such as language, kinship, marriage and family life, political and economic organization, food getting, spiritual and religious practices, and the arts. Prehistoric historic and contemporary information is presented. Each chapter begins with an ex...

Ancient Religions

June 01, 2021 18:16 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MB

Religious beliefs and practices, which permeates all aspects of life in antiquity, traveled well-worn routes throughout the Mediterranean: itinerant charismatic practitioners journeying from place to place peddled their skills as healers, purifiers, cursers, and initiators; and vessels decorated with illustrations of myths traveled with them. A collection of essays edited by Sarah Iles Johnston, Harvard University Press, 2007

Italian news

May 30, 2021 09:53 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MB

La Nazionale, La Repubblica, etc

Daily prayers

May 22, 2021 02:14 - 6 minutes - 5.73 MB

In Latin

La Repubblica

May 22, 2021 02:03 - 2 minutes - 2.45 MB

Daily news from Italy’s largest newspaper

Peking Story

May 18, 2021 16:21 - 4 minutes - 3.81 MB

The Last days of Old China, David Kidd, 1988

Crass Struggle

May 18, 2021 01:09 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MB

Greed, glitz, and gluttony in a wanna-have world, RT Naylor, 2011

Art in Theory 1900-1990

May 14, 2021 19:07 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MB

An anthology of art essays compiled by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, 1992

Notes on Atmosphere, Dora Zhang

May 11, 2021 15:06 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MB

What difference does an atmosphere make to an environment, a situation, or a horizon of possible action?

Astrology and Cosmology in Early China

May 11, 2021 05:08 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MB

Using an enormous wealth of archaeological discoveries, inscriptions, linguistic evidence, religious rites, and historical sources, David W. Pankenier recovers ancient Chinese astronomical concepts and practices of paramount importance for our understanding of the formation of the Chinese civilization. 2013, Cambridge University Press

Li Ch’ing-chao poems

May 11, 2021 03:25 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MB

Translated by Kenneth Redroth and Ling Chung, 1979. Poems by Li Ch’ing-chao 1081-1141.

Born under Saturn

May 10, 2021 06:57 - 1 hour - 55.6 MB

The Character and conduct of Artists: A documented history from Antiquity to the French Revolution, Rudolf and Margot Wittkower, 1963

Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism

May 10, 2021 06:29 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MB

Essays by Millicent Marcus, Princeton University Press, 1986

The Shape of Time

May 04, 2021 01:47 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MB

George Kubler, 1962

Crashed: How a decade of financial crises changed the world

April 30, 2021 16:37 - 10 minutes - 9.77 MB

Adam Tooze

Dante The Divine Comedy

April 28, 2021 17:25 - 1 hour - 70.4 MB

Vol I: Inferno

French Poems

April 26, 2021 20:31 - 1 hour - 61.2 MB

Saint-John Perse 1887-1975

Consuming Life

April 26, 2021 19:51 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MB

Zygmunt Bauman examines the impact of consumerist attitudes and patterns of conduct on various apparently unconnected aspects of social life - politics and democracy, social divisions and stratification, communities and partnerships, identity building, the production and use of knowledge, and value preferences.

Confessions

April 09, 2021 00:55 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MB

Transgressions --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The internet didn’t kill counterculture—you just won’t find it on Instagram

April 06, 2021 21:27 - 25 minutes - 23 MB

Article by Caroline Busta for Document Journal

Silk

April 02, 2021 00:58 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MB

Its invention in Ancient China and its journey through time