#Crow
#ArtHistory
#Intelligence

*? Thomas Crow*⬛️ The Intelligence of Art

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With this book, Thomas Crow contributes a refreshing analysis of the present state of art history, the practice of interpreting art and making it "intelligible." He aims to relocate the discussion of theory and method in art history away from models borrowed from other disciplines by presenting what he considers three of the most successful and challenging works in the literature of art history: Meyer Schapiro on the Romanesque portal sculpture of the abbey church of Sainte Marie in the French town of Souillac, Claude Levi-Strauss on the Native American masks of the Northwest Coast, and Michael Baxandall on the limewood sculptors of Renaissance Germany.

Sketching the history of trends in art history--from description and biography, to more recent social-historical methods, to the latest wave of postmodernist approaches--Crow sets out a course that affirms the rich and valuable tools of language and methodology developed by generations of art historians while recognizing the important contribution of recent theory in raising the interpretive stakes.The Intelligence of Art offers nothing less than a concrete new way to grasp the infinitely complex operations of human intelligence in artistic form.

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So most of my life has been lived in hell.

William Carlos Williams

Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving,
seized me so strongly with his charm that,
as you see, it has not left me yet.

Love brought us to one death.

Dante Alighieri, Inferno

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#Taqiyya

#Chamayou
#Drone
#Theory

*? Gregoire Chamayou*

⬛️ A Theory of the Drone

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Drone Theory is Gregoire Chamayou's poignant and sharply argued polemic against US drone warfare. In 2011 alone, the US deployed one drone strike every four days in Pakistan. Drone Theory is a rigorous polemic against the increasing use of robot warfare around the world. Drawing on philosophical debate, moral lessons from Greek mythology and transcripts of conversations between drone operators, Drone Theory re-evaluates the socio-political impact of drone warfare on the world - and its people. Chamayou takes us through Nevada, Pakistan and arresting philosophical terrain to reveal how drones are changing the landscape of war theory and to highlight the profound moral implications of our own silence in the face of drone warfare. Born in 1976, Grégoire Chamayou is a philosopher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and the author of Les corps vils and Manhunts: A Philosophical History. Chamayou also lectures at Université de Paris Ouest, and has written for Le Monde Diplomatique among other publications. Janet Lloyd has translated over seventy books from French to English and has twice been awarded the Scott Moncrieff prize.

The Star by Esmail Shahroudi
Tonight, a hidden star revealed itself
Thrusted the spear of light in the eyes of all that existed
But none saw that the star had set the light assail toward us from thousands of years afar
Perhaps amidst the darkness of an endless night,
the tempest of death had uprooted the star
it is gone, however had illuminated the depths of every niche on its course!
It has been dead for a while and
Without hesitation had placed its coffin on the shoulders of limitless spaces
Alas, whilst its heart was illuminating, no one sought with their gaze any sign of it
But now it shines ablaze in the sight of all spectators
That light which had been poured from the dead star onto the earth The star is no more, though its light carries on and on in every road
One night if our body in the land of sorrow
Would hang itself in plain sight from the gallows of death We would shine as that star without existence
We would remain eternal in the light of our own love
Tehran-1955