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“It is a risk to read philosophy as a non-philosopher. When we don’t have the resources to read certain texts, we risk getting things wrong by not returning them to the fullness of the intellectual histories from which they emerge. And yet, we read. The promise of interdisciplinary scholarship is that the failure to return texts to their histories will do something. Of course, not all failures are creative. If we don’t take care with the texts we read, if we don’t pay attention, then the failure to read them ‘properly’ won’t do very much at all. Taking care involves work, and it is work that we must do if we are to create something other than another point on a line.”
— Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology, pg. 22-23
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Pi (1998) Was an Aronofsky Film Ahead of its Time
Pi was Darren Aronofsky’s first feature film, a black and white cyberpunk thriller released twenty years ago. The film is considered an overlooked classic and ahead of its time in subject matter and aesthetics.
In this episode the film is analyzed and reviewed.
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My heart has been very heavy over the state of the world recently. Please, please, please, be an ally. Today, Tomorrow, Always.
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Horinue aka Yosuke Hyodo (Japanese, Japan) - Futakuchi-Onna (Two-Mouthed Woman), 2017 Drawings: Carbon Pencils, Colored Pencils, Graphite Pencils on Fabriano Paper
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in Philippine folklore, Oryol was a beautiful naga with a hypnotic voice. She was the one who commanded vicious mermaids called the Magindara. She was also said to protect the land of Ibalong where monsters and beasts lived peacefully.
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In Philippine mythology, Apolaki was the sun god and lord of war, who ruled the sky with his sister, the moon goddess Mayari.. It is said that when the Spanish colonizers came , Apolaki wept as his people slowly began to forget him.
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Fae vs. Fairy
Alright guys, let’s talk fae (the Celtic version).
There’s a terribly common misconception of what fae/fairy (and pixies) really means. On screen and sometimes even in books fairies are mistakenly shown to be those little winged creatures described as mischievous if not evil. That’s false. Those are actually pixies. The actual Fae (faerie, later fairy) are the mysterious nature spirits possessing magical powers, who look human-like but can also temporarily take up various smaller sizes upon choice.
But where do the Fae start? From the myths and folklore of the ancient Celts. The gods and goddesses of the Celts were many in number, and many unknown, but they were regarded with reverence, as having power and purpose, with various functions in the natural world. These gods were the Tuatha de Dannan, the people of Danu.
But with the arrival of Christianity, this changed, like most Celtic (and other non-Celtic) concepts. They were altered in meaning. Gods and deities of the old pagan ways were demoted to “fairy folk”, to heroes and remorseful warriors that change their faith, to lessen their power. Their pedestal of godhood and aura of mystery was strategically erased. They became enchanters, sorcerers, which obviously had evil connotations in Christian perception. In Daemonologie, King James associated fairies with demonic entities. Eventually even this imagery of the magical enchanters was further demoted to what is now most commonly known as that of the pixies: in other words, something small, harmless, powerless, a troublesome spirit that nobody cares to bother with anymore.
So in this sense, fae/faerie/faery refers to the ancient idea of what they stood for, the original one (gods, Tuatha de Dannan, powerful magical spirits); whereas fairy is the more modern one mistaken for pixies (small, harmless, mischievous).
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In Philippine mythology, Haliya the masked goddess, Mayari the one-eyed Goddess of beauty and war, and Bulan the lover of the death god Sidapa were the three surviving moons,The rest were devoured by Bakunawa the sea serpent, who was once a beautiful but vain sea goddess who loved them. Haliya and Bakunawa would fight during eclipses, and during these times, it is said that the people would cry, as it was Bakunawa eating the moons that was causing the eclipse. It was the cries of these people that Haliya would use as her weapons and armor during her battle with Bakunawa.
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"Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideas, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me."– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore. (via loquaciouslyliterate)
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"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped."– Norman Mailer, The Presidential Papers (via quotespile)
