Sunday, November 8, 2009
Smith on Commerce, both psychological and economic
Sometimes the best way to be sympathetic is to stop right at the border or boundary of a person or place, whose incomprehensibility just asks to to be acknowledged and not understood. I don't think that this is an argument against sympathy, open borders (both psychological and political), or worldwide exchange and commerce, but an argument for open and permeable borders that sometimes need to express reciprocity and equality (self<->other relations) and sometimes need to express distinction (self<-other; self->other). And so freedom is sometimes maintained by the reciprocal attunement of two selves, but also sometimes by the discord between them, or sometimes it is only attained when these two things are allowed to occur simultaneously.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
The Political Work of Monuments: The Holocaust
Holocaust Memorial: Miami
Holocaust Memorial: Budapest
Holocaust Memorial: Boston
Holocaust Memorial: Berlin
The Political Work of Monuments: the Gulag
Courtesy of the Memorial Museum of Political Repression History:
Location of small monuments erected to commemorate the victims of totalitarianism:
Monuments in honor of political repression victims:
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