March, so it is Spring and Pancake day.
A yearly treat!!
And, the garden is suitably decorated. Daffodils and the ‘holy’ Magnolia in bloom.
Still, Winter lingers with dramatic skies near where I live.
I enter into a correspondence with a friend on Tarot cards. This takes me back to past studies and issues in archetypal psychology. So, Jung is not far away:
There is also an eclipse of the sun as well – a partial eclipse. For once, the English weather behaves and I get some photos:
An interesting Japanese version of Shakespeare’s ‘As you Like it’. A frivolous play in many ways, but containing some noble and telling eulogies. Like the ‘seven ages of man’ and ‘All the world’s a stage…’. As always, there are phrases that have entered the English language: ‘no rhyme or reason’, for example.
A new book on the production of Bourdieu’s translation of Panofsky’s Gothic Architecture. A seminal text for Bourdieu and one that allowed him to stabilize his ‘Field Theory’. The new book is a piece of ‘intellectual archeology’, setting out their correspondence and, amongst other things, stressing Bourdieu’s interest in arts. The book I did with Cheryl Hardy on Bourdieu and Art is still unique:
A new Musica en Moviemiento AAD begins:
https://musicaenmovimiento.com/
I also attend a lecture on the Druids by Ronald Hutton. As so often with his work, he is at pains to suggest they did not really exists/ were a late invention.
Blake struggled with the concept: anyone pagan was too close to the material world for him – only the spiritual counted!!
A new DVD: the collected Thunderbirds series. My favourite.
Surely the zenith of the Gerry Anderson work.
I have been listening to Kathryn Tickell, and her wondrous Northumbrian pipes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD9z7Qk-ESE
I have been reading a book by Mark Fisher on the ‘Dark Enlightenment’: Cyber meets Gothic, meets Alt Right, meets Deleuze and Baudrillard meets Misinformation, meets racism, antidemocratic, meets oligarchies and corporate capitalist accelerationism!! It is not that there is a conspiracy, but that the conspiracy is that there is no conspiracy. And, there is not as a linear socio-political movement/ direction. Rather a set of systems are set up – rhizomes – that do not really connect or acknowledge each other but together constitute an ecology. And, one that is dangerous and pernicious – but no-one is really ‘in charge’ so to speak.
