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Latin Prayers
December 08, 2021 02:15 - 5 minutes - 5.01 MBIn 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 MBSegments 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 MBReadings 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 MBAn 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 MBDante, 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 MBSacred 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 MBSegments 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 MBSegments from Erich Fromm’s “The Art of Loving”
Beauty and Ideal Citizenship
December 08, 2021 02:12 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBSegment 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 MBSegment from “The Melancholy of Race” by Anne Anlin Cheng
Melancholia
December 08, 2021 02:11 - 8 minutes - 7.87 MBSegments from “Melancholy of Race” by Anne Anlin Cheng
Theory of Love
December 08, 2021 02:10 - 5 minutes - 5.32 MBSegments from Erich Fromm’s “The Art of Loving”
History of East Hampton
December 08, 2021 02:10 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBFrom the East Hampton Town website, an introduction to the town.
The Dream and the Underworld
December 08, 2021 02:09 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBJames 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 MBA brief history of Mankind by Yuval Noah Harari
American Religious Poems
December 08, 2021 02:08 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBAn Anthology by Harold Bloom and Jesse Zuba
Environment and Consumption
December 08, 2021 02:05 - 9 minutes - 8.75 MBTracing the history of sugar and beef production in global energy consumption.
The Most Beautiful job in the world
November 06, 2021 13:03 - 7 minutes - 3.76 MBAn 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 MBThe 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 MBEdited by Gaynell Stone, Suffolk County Archaeological Association, 1983
Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations
July 30, 2021 15:26 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBInterviews and essays compiled for the inauguration of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.
Italian practice
July 14, 2021 10:39 - 1 hour - 62 MBTo 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 MBSusan 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 MBReligious 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
Crass Struggle
May 18, 2021 01:09 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBGreed, 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 MBAn 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 MBWhat 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 MBUsing 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 MBTranslated 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 MBThe 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 MBEssays by Millicent Marcus, Princeton University Press, 1986
Crashed: How a decade of financial crises changed the world
April 30, 2021 16:37 - 10 minutes - 9.77 MBAdam Tooze
Consuming Life
April 26, 2021 19:51 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBZygmunt 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 MBTransgressions --- 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 MBArticle by Caroline Busta for Document Journal
Silk
April 02, 2021 00:58 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBIts invention in Ancient China and its journey through time