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		<title>&#8220;Three wedding songs&#8221; – a work of art (and performance ethnography) by Olga Alexandrova</title>
		<link>http://extravagantcreation.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/three-wedding-songs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McIntyre</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rozanov, Vasily]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The work of performance art that is the subject of this post isn&#8217;t new.  Udmurt by birth, Olga Alexandrova (a brief bio for her can be found here) first performed her &#8220;Three wedding songs&#8221; in 1994, and she has performed &#8230; <a href="http://extravagantcreation.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/three-wedding-songs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=extravagantcreation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12270667&amp;post=4745&amp;subd=extravagantcreation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The irrational residue of being</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McIntyre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Here is a scintillating "mini-essay" from the pen of perhaps the greatest essayist Russia has ever produced: Lev Shestov.  It is the forty-third of fifty-two pensées originally published in a Paris-based Russian journal in 1922 and 1923, under the title &#8230; <a href="http://extravagantcreation.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/the-irrational-residue-of-being/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=extravagantcreation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12270667&amp;post=4725&amp;subd=extravagantcreation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ethics without a warrant: The living witness of the Le Chambon rescuers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McIntyre</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Jewish and Christian children at play in Le Chambon, (Occupied) France.] [In her 1998 book, Jews and Christians on Time and Eternity: Charles Péguy's Portrait of Bernard-Lazare, Annette Aronowicz acutely summarizes and comments on the 1979 book, Lest Innocent Blood Be &#8230; <a href="http://extravagantcreation.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/ethics-without-a-warrant-the-living-witness-of-the-le-chambon-rescuers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=extravagantcreation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12270667&amp;post=4668&amp;subd=extravagantcreation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liberty Hyde Bailey: The background spaces.—The ancestral sea</title>
		<link>http://extravagantcreation.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/liberty-hyde-bailey-the-background-spaces-the-ancestral-sea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McIntyre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bailey, Liberty Hyde]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[More from The Holy Earth by L. H. Bailey.  Keep in mind that in 1914, when Bailey wrote these words, man's wherewithal to despoil the sea was nonexistent.  Of course, this is no longer the case.  A recent, and excellent, book on this &#8230; <a href="http://extravagantcreation.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/liberty-hyde-bailey-the-background-spaces-the-ancestral-sea/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=extravagantcreation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12270667&amp;post=4661&amp;subd=extravagantcreation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liberty Hyde Bailey: The background spaces.—The open fields</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McIntyre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bailey, Liberty Hyde]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Another chapter from The Holy Earth, by L. H. Bailey.] Here not long ago was the forest primeval.  Here the trees sprouted, and grew their centuries, and returned to the earth.  Here the midsummer brook ran all day long from &#8230; <a href="http://extravagantcreation.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/liberty-hyde-bailey-the-background-spaces-the-open-fields/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=extravagantcreation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12270667&amp;post=4639&amp;subd=extravagantcreation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liberty Hyde Bailey: The background spaces.—The forest</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McIntyre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[It is an exciting, but humbling, experience to discover a man as talented and productive as Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954).  A recent exhibit on his life was not exaggerating when it described him as "Botanist, horticulturalist, plant breeder, traveler and plant explorer, outstanding teacher, astute and successful &#8230; <a href="http://extravagantcreation.wordpress.com/2011/10/23/liberty-hyde-bailey-the-background-spaces-the-forest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=extravagantcreation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12270667&amp;post=4610&amp;subd=extravagantcreation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dissent by Durr: The conscience of an American lawyer</title>
		<link>http://extravagantcreation.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/dissent-by-durr-the-conscience-of-an-american-lawyer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McIntyre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil liberties]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I recently posted his photo here on the right-hand side of my blog, I have not yet mentioned Clifford Judkins Durr (1899-1975) in any of my posts, and it&#8217;s past time I did.  Both he and his wife, Virginia Foster Durr (1903-1999), are heroes of mine &#8230; <a href="http://extravagantcreation.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/dissent-by-durr-the-conscience-of-an-american-lawyer/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=extravagantcreation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12270667&amp;post=4515&amp;subd=extravagantcreation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The network of global corporate control</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 04:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McIntyre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title of this post is taken from a recent paper by three complex systems theorists from ETH Zurich: Stefania Vitali, James B. Glattfelder, and Stefano Battiston.  I learned of this paper from a Twitter post by Glenn Greenwald that linked &#8230; <a href="http://extravagantcreation.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/the-network-of-global-corporate-control/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=extravagantcreation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12270667&amp;post=4494&amp;subd=extravagantcreation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And justice for all?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McIntyre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder how many Americans who rightly celebrated yesterday Amanda Knox&#8217;s release from an Italian jail – in a long-delayed act of justice – will spare a thought today for those detainees who are unjustly accused, denied a trial, and &#8230; <a href="http://extravagantcreation.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/and-justice-for-all/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=extravagantcreation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12270667&amp;post=4476&amp;subd=extravagantcreation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Resurrection of the larch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McIntyre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russian literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shalamov, Varlam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A profound meditation by a great Russian writer and Gulag survivor, Varlam Shalamov, can be read here.  Sarah J. Young translated it, and her comments can be read here. Filed under: Russian literature, Shalamov, Varlam<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=extravagantcreation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12270667&amp;post=4472&amp;subd=extravagantcreation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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