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Weronika Dudka

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Imogen Cunningham’s early symbolist work (1910–12)

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Jonas Lindstroem

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Mustafah Abdulaziz The Purifying Ganges

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A ruined castle on a loch by moonlight, 1837, J. M. Dacre. 19th Century.

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King Mouselet And Prince Youth - The Bold Dwarfs´Adventures Illustrated by Artuš Scheiner

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Renato Tomassi (Italian, 1884-1972), Posing, 1918. Oil on canvas, 92 x 61 cm.

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Operation Eclipse - Spectrum of Totally Eclipsed Sun’, taken by an unknown photographer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, 9 July 1945.

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Jean Cocteau In Bed

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Pepper Tree #123, 2013 - Kaoru Mansour

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Audiences outside academia clearly understand the benefits of collective listening. If public lectures did not draw sizable crowds, then museums, universities, bookstores, and community centers would have abandoned them long ago. The public knows that, far from being outdated, lectures can be rousing, profound, and even fun. The attack on lectures ultimately participates in neoliberalism’s desire to restructure our lives in the image of just-in-time logistics. We must be able to cancel anything at the last minute in our desperate hustle to be employable to anyone who might ask. An economic model that chops up and parcels out every moment of our lives inevitably resists the requirement to convene regularly. Critics frequently complain that lectures’ fixity makes it difficult for students to work. We should throw this argument back at those who make it: the need for students to work makes it hard for them to attend lectures. Work, not learning, is the burden that should be eradicated. Education is not an errand to be wedged between Uber shifts; it represents a long-term commitment that requires support from society at large. This support is thinning; eroding the legitimacy of lecturing makes it thinner still.

Miya Tokumitsu, “In Defense of the Lecture” (via wesleyhill)