On Food & Culture
It’s 4:15 AM in Apeldoorn, Holland and I can’t sleep due to my jetlag. I’ll get up soon and go swim before starting my meetings here. I went quickly to two websites to collect some info and was struck at the difference viaually and programmatically …
These days at the 4th Conference on Media, Religion and Culture have been full of exciting people from all over the world. Every minute of the day is full of either interesting workshops, papers and panels–or coffee/beers with friends and new acquaintances doing interesting research …
Am on my way to the 4th International Conference on Media, Religion and Culture. Louiseville, Kentucky is the site. The occasion is also the launch of a book co-edited by Peter Horsfield, Mary Hess and myself, “Belief In Media.” The page for this book is …
Francesca Talenti made a one-minute video in 2000 that has a poem by Emily Dickinson, “I Reason,” as the audio. It is a haunting combination of intellectual clarity and transcendental searching. It provokes mediating about 9/11 with implied questions, deep questions. You can see this …
am back, but will probably be absent more than present here for the rest of the year. Just to say that I was inspired yesterday, listening to “Democracy Now” with Amy Goodman. But more on that some other time. Today on our community radio station, …
This long silence will continue for another week. I’ve been travelling in areas where it is difficult to get online. Ad�n
“Printed Revolutionary” by Maribel Ledesma reminds me this morning of the power of art. Ad�n
This highly decorative personal page is full of information about Ecuadorian Catholic religious practices. What strikes me is the frequent use of animated gifs, coloring and ornamentation that is European-American rather than indigenous Ecuadorian. This is especially evident on this “Rosary” page that explains how …