Monthly Archives: July 2013

Jaffa Night (Different Points of View)

Posted on July 13, 2013 by zjb

Views from Jaffa — different kinds of places. The guy at work is probably a migrant from Eritrea or Sudan busing dishes at an excellent fish restaurant owned by Israeli-Palestinian owners with a very mixed clientele. I like how the … Continue reading →

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Restaurant Ruttenberg (In The Middle of Nowhere)

Posted on July 13, 2013 by zjb

We were taken by the cousin to Restaurant Ruttenberg, an incongruously situated  gourmet joint right up on the Jordanian border in the middle of nowhere up by Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee). Near Kibbutz Gesher, it’s housed in a shack that was … Continue reading →

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Bahai (Haifa)

Posted on July 12, 2013 by zjb

I like the clean sharp lines and how the Bahai gardens cut into the hill.      

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Body Animal (Husserl)

Posted on July 11, 2013 by zjb

MK tells me that corporeality constitutes a major philosophical topos for Husserl in Ideas II. But the body-animal makes a brief appearance in the earlier (1913) Ideas in a section on “animalia and psychological consciousness.” Of interest here are the “animal realities” … Continue reading →

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No Signal (Gal Cohen)

Posted on July 10, 2013 by zjb

I think Gal Cohen’s best figures are surreal and savage child-animal hybrids offset by some kind of bright white light.

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Church of the Transfiguration (Mt Tabor)

Posted on July 10, 2013 by zjb

I’m pretty sure it’s to a monastery on Mt. Tabor that Lessing, in his play Nathan the Wise, sends the good friar, when the friar wants to leave the common political space represented by Jerusalem under Saladin and reorganized by … Continue reading →

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Image Phantasie Phenomenology (Husserl)

Posted on July 10, 2013 by zjb

The phenomenology, the form of phenomenological reason established by Husserl in Ideas is one that takes seriously the formative power of the imagination and fantasy (which the translators translate as “fancy). Fantasy is one form of consciousness identified by Husserl … Continue reading →

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Land Art (Israel)

Posted on July 9, 2013 by zjb

It’s not land art, but it looks like land art –the arc of the jetty at the Haifa port and the circles and lines of fields and roads in the Jezreel Valley in the center-north of the country, just a … Continue reading →

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(God) (Husserl)

Posted on July 9, 2013 by zjb

The first time I realized that God was going to appear in Husserl’s Ideas was reading Edith Wyschogrod in Crossover Queries, where she mentions that passage in which Husserl remarks upon the impossibility of a “world-God,” one who appears or … Continue reading →

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Hebrew Diaspora Zionist Place Names (Tel Aviv)

Posted on July 8, 2013 by zjb

A Jewish State or whatever it is you want to call a country with an entrenched Jewish majority is defined if only in part by a concatenation of names.  Because of its sheer size, Tel Aviv is a particularly extensive … Continue reading →

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