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• Mar 28 Looking Away Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present Here is the ancient floor,
• Mar 8 Fixities and Definites Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, Chapter XIII The primary IMAGINATION I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and a...
• Feb 18 Inner Necessity Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art The artist must be blind to distinctions between "recognized" or "unrecognized" conventions of form,...
• Feb 3 The Semblance of Truth Plato, Phaedrus The story goes that Theuth was the inventor of many arts, and he went to the great king Thamus and s...
• Jan 15 Resistant Surfaces Matthew Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft The use of tools requires a certain posture toward the world: the user must be attentive to the resi...