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The Story of Art Without Men

by Katy Hessel

bookshelves: currently-reading, art-photography-etc, cultures-sociology, from-family-or-friends, non-fiction

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Jan 28, 2025 10:12PM

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Ten Year Stretch: Celebrating a Decade of Crime Fiction at CrimeFest

by Bill Beverly

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Monumental Disruptions: Aboriginal people and colonial commemorations in so-called Australia

by Bronwyn Carlson

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Deborah’s Quotes

“Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.”
― Joanna Russ, How to Suppress Women's Writing

tags: bad-faith, ignorance, misogyny

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“The capacity to form attachments on equal terms is considered evidence of emotional maturity. It is the absence of this capacity which is pathological. Whether there may be other criteria of emotional maturity, like the capacity to be alone, is seldom taken into account.”
― Anthony Storr, Solitude: A Return to the Self

tags: attachment, psychoanalysis, solitude

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“Justice is not natural among people, but the struggle for justice is the most noble act in society. Because justice may not be possible, but as it’s the way toward the desired society for each one to live in, that’s why its struggle is noble and regard as the highest act.”
― Zaman Ali, GOVERNMENT Servant, Not Master

tags: justice, natural, noble, people, society

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“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

tags: art, culture, intellectual-snobbery, literature, snobbery

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“The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in the universe through what he creates. He finds this a valuable integrating process which, like meditation or prayer, has little to do with other people, but which has its own separate validity. His most significant moments are those in which he attains some new insight, or makes some new discovery; and these moments are chiefly, if not invariably, those in which he is alone.”
― Anthony Storr, Solitude: A Return to the Self

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