August 2007
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What is nature, anyway?
08.31.07 | Permalink | 4 CommentsI’ve talked to many people over the course of the last month or two about our ‘connection’ with nature, or our ‘embeddedness’ in nature. Many people have suggested to me that we would do better if we had a greater collective awareness of the fact that we are ‘part of nature’. What does this mean? [...]
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Valuing The Arts
Have a look at this excerpt from a speech last month by Rt Hon James Purnell MP, the new UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport. Given that it’s coming from a government minister, you may need to read it twice.
“There is something else that should be taken for granted: that the arts [...]
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"The next revolution - World War III - will be waged inside your head. It will be a guerrilla information war fought not in the sky or on the streets, not in the forests or even around the scarce resources of the earth, but in newspapers and magazines, on the radio, TV and in ’cyberspace’... It will be a dirty, no-holds-barred propaganda war of competing worldviews and alternative visions of the future. "
Marshall McLuhan, in Culture is Our Business, cited on 'Dennis Pamlin's homepage'
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