Ernst Bloch
The harmony of the
spheres
The universality of music was defended and scholastically classified. It now extended from the res transcendentales et divinae to cover the whole cathedral of the universe via stars, people, animals, plants and stones. And when the hierarchical world-picture reflected in the heavens had shattered, the harmonies of the spheres were still heard in art. There were still 'touches of sweet harmony', as Lorenzo described the stars to Jessica, still these sublime lines of recollection: 'Die Sonne t๖nt nach alter Weise / In Brudersphไren Wettgesang'. And natural science, which deprived the world of these divine attributes, was itself still deeply embedded in Pythagorean doctrine to begin with. Even Kepler, one of the men who shattered the old image of the world, adhered to the music of the spheres, and went so far as to describe it in terms of the counterpoint of his age. With Kepler, the Lyra Apollinis vel Solis became the Baroque orchestra with all its polyphony. Read more...
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Who is afraid of globalization?
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The fear of Americanization of the planet is more ideological paranoia than reality |
TO J.
ATTALI, globalization seems like a global but unstable prevalence of the
Western values - a temporary prevalence which is determined to lead in moral
decay and the surrender of power to drug dealers and the Mafia!
Related:
The Revolt of the Masses, by Jose Ortega Y Gassett
The
Culture of Liberty, by M.V. Llosa (a calm and well grounded view)
Independent
media center (the web-heart of the protesters)
Measuring
Globalization, by A. T. Kearney
Globalisation:
For and against, by M. Elliot and C. Hines (a dialogue of disappointing
quality, but characteristic)
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ELLOPOS Gallery - IMAGES
OF GREECE
IMAGES OF
NAUPLION & VOURAIKOS
Photos & texts by Kostas
Katsiyiannis
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SAFRI DUO'S ENGLISH & FRENCH SUITES
Chandos - #9339
I've never understood why "there isn't anything better than a guitar, except for two guitars" - but I see it proving true in the case of Safri Duo's percussion.
Safri play in a melodic way, exploiting a large dynamic area
and expressive tempos and accentuations which make voices clear and compact. We
wouldn't expect from percussionists to play in a way that would make
pianists feel jealous! However, replacing harpsichord or piano with percussion
makes Bach's music sometimes to resemble the African poly-rythmic webs. Add to
these the natural subtlety of the instruments and a good recording and you will
have a great company!
Related: Safri Duo web site
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Dickens is known for naming his characters in order to reveal
something about the traits of the character. Betsey Trotwood's last name,
suggests a hurried woman (trot), for she is fond of order and does everything
with no time to spare. Remember her expression "Oh tut, tut, tut" [...] open to
anyone's wishes and subject to all kinds of changes it [Copperfield's name]
remains hidden - or maybe it doesn't exist at all, but only as a drive and cause
of the very act of naming. This way David Copperfield indicates the hidden
reality inside any other character in the story, who are thus defined from and
in their relationship to him. (Community
posts by leo & absent-minded; read
complete - See also new posts on Dr. Strong, Mr. Dick, Children in David Copperfield and Great Expectations)
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He [Mr. Micawber] solemnly conjured me, I remember, to take warning by his fate; and to observe that if a man had twenty pounds a-year for his income, and spent nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence, he would be happy, but that if he spent twenty pounds one he would be miserable. (Added by Luise Tirrell [Thank you!] - read more) |
Movie criticism : genuine
and valid remarks on current and past movies. Make a bookmark!
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Freeware downloads
/cd burning
IsoBuster can read badly recorded or damaged cds and recover your precious files - at least most of them! Where Windows just pops up a message like "incorrect funtion", etc before it crashes, IsoBuster extracts whatever can be read from the cd. Take care: it may stall on a single file for 10 or 20 minutes. If lot of cd sections are damaged, this means you will need a whole day to read the cd. What you should do? Open it. Select cd drive and the folder you want to save. In the first error select the "Ignore All" option and just leave it to finish the cd (I wouldn't advise you to do anything else with your computer while this progy works).
/system tools
Dialup Networking Backup Tool backs up your dial-up connections (not only user name and password but the whole working thing, "connectoids" (as accessed by opening the dialup networking folder in "My Computer"). It does this by creating an internet settings file that when opened recreates the DUN connection detailed in the file. If you install your system from the beginning or just happen to delete something, etc it will restore your connections in a click of your mouse! Just indispensable!
DirKey is a small utility that enables fast access to local and network folders by allowing the user to define folder bookmarks (keyboard shortcuts). These bookmarks can be defined on the fly whenever you are browsing your file system in Windows Explorer or Open/Save Dialog boxes. If you cut/copy and paste files frequently from and in certain folders, you will need it.
/text tools
The Font Thing is a freeware font management tool for Win9x/NT/2000. You can browse installed and uninstalled fonts, browse fonts in subfolders as a single combined list, view sample text and individual characters in your choice of colours, install or uninstall any number of fonts at once, load (and unload) any number of fonts for temporary use, copy or delete any number of font files at once, rename font files to avoid file name conflicts - and more. An excellent tool, by S C E Fisher.
/internet
E-mail Control is an anti-spam mail program, but it can be used to delete from the server whatever message you like before you download it. The creator writes (and it is true:) Email Virus detect *** Sender Domain Owner identification *** Remove spam from your mailbox in your ISP *** Different filter types let you filter on any message part *** Filter Wizard *** Log-file trail (deleted messages, filtered messages, date) *** Retrieval of e-mail from multiple POP3 accounts, Dial-up, CableModem and ADSL *** Unlimited e-mail accounts *** Anti-spam tools *** Black List: Large listing of known spammers *** Spam filtering *** Very easy to use.
Troubleshooter
I needed to change the default Office font in order to see Polytonic Greek characters in crucial occasions, like placing the mouse over a footnote. However, achieving this is not very easy, at least not if you use Win2K. If you want Office to use your default system font instead of Tahoma or Arial you should do a few registry modifications. Going to
and creating the dword "UseOfficeUIFont" with a value of "0" seems not to be enough. If this won't work, you should also open
and create two new strings, one with a name of "Tahoma" and value "yourfontwhatever", and another one with a name of "Arial" and a value of "yourfontwhatever". Delete Tahoma fonts from the Fonts directory. These changes will affect not only Office but the whole system. Some applications may not be able to use your font. It's a risky tip, but you can undo it easily. Note those three new registry keys and delete them if you have any problems. Don't forget to reinstall Tahoma.
Clipboard
Code Red II virus : cleanup tool or prevention
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