PAM & ME/DIA

A media diary to share arts of all types: 2-D, 3D, architecture, film, literature,  photography, music, theater, essays and more.  All are welcome to participate with their own encounters, creations and ideas.

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From the Washington Post: Perspective | Frantisek Kupka was at his best when he painted himself in 1907’s ‘The Yellow Scale’

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A lovely article foxused on Mr. Rogers, the artist.

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25 "Best" in celebration of the 15th anniversary of NYT's Modern Love

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"This kind of exhibition cuts to the core of that connection between art and life and argues for the possibility of drawing to be a kind of lifeline and something that can help us define ourselves as human,” [Laura Hoptman] said.

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The perfect article for an oil painter wondering if others also forgo oil mediums.

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We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.

Henry Beston

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I would add Annie Dillard's The Living to this.

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She had the gift of always knowing she was having a wonderful time as she was actually having it, not just in retrospect like so many people.

Caroline Graham, A Place of Safety, on her character Joyce Barnaby

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Billy Sullivan, Gladiolas, August, 2011 kaufmann repetto gallery

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Celebrating Women in Philosophy Reading List

To celebrate women’s contributions to philosophy, we have created a reading list of books and online resources that explore classic female philosophers and recent feminist philosophy. Despite the lack of opportunity in academic philosophy and their apparent invisibility in the field, women have been practising philosophers for many centuries. Some of the great social and cultural movements have also been enriched by the female minds. Explore books and articles on feminist philosophy, gender oppressions, and women’s empowerment below.

Natural Goodness, by Philippa Foot, Clarendon Press

Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, by Kate Manne

Categories We Live By: The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories, by Ásta

Pornography: A Philosophical Introduction,by Mari Mikkola

Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion by Katie Watson

Essays on Ethics and Feminism by Sabina Lovibond 

Differences: Rereading Beauvoir and Irigaray, Edited by Emily Anne Parker and Anne van Leeuwen

The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft, edited by Sandrine Bergès and Alan Coffee

Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman by Toril Moi

The Well-Ordered Universe: The Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish by Deborah Boyle

‘British Feminist Thought’ in The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century  from Oxford Handbooks Online

‘Feminism in Philosophy’ in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy from Oxford Handbooks Online

‘The 18th century: Amazons of the pen’, in Feminism: A Very Short Introduction

‘Virgins or whores? Feminist critiques of sexuality’ in Sexuality: VSI

‘Hypatia’ in Wandering Poets and Other Essays on Late Greek Literature and Philosophy from Oxford Scholarship Online

‘Theorising Oppression’ in Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity from Oxford Scholarship Online

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