Monthly Archives: November 2014

Faith Mission Baptist Church (Harlem)

Posted on November 30, 2014 by zjb

Ramshackle brick, Faith Mission Baptist Church is on W. 117th Street in Harlem between Adam Clayton Powell and Malcom X Blvds. The white crucifix signage is ubiquitous markers for Baptist churches in the city. Bright things, they call attention to the … Continue reading →

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Myth and Modernity: The End Point of Zionism

Posted on November 29, 2014 by zjb

Great piece by Timer Persico on myth, Zionism, and the Temple Mount. The takeaway is this: “If, as I believe, Zionism is a true and authentic continuation of the Jewish tradition, it must posit a valid alternative to the narrow … Continue reading →

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Apollo (Harlem)

Posted on November 29, 2014 by zjb

On a new Harlem walk, up to 130th Street, and then down 5th, I caught this view of the Apollo Theater down 125th from Lenox, decked out with Christmas lights. I like how the picture came out, dotted by the black … Continue reading →

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what’s wrong with “The Nation-State” “of” “The Jewish People”

Posted on November 28, 2014 by zjb

The precise language of the proposed Basic Law being debated in Israel does more than codify Israel as a “Jewish State.” The law’s purpose is to define Israel as “The Nation-State of the Jewish people.” It’s a peculiar and even … Continue reading →

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Walk Along the Palisades

Posted on November 27, 2014 by zjb

Close to the river, a Hudson River walk along the Palisades under the Englewood Cliffs in New Jersey .

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Anti-Democratic Israel Jewish Nationality Law

Posted on November 26, 2014 by zjb

This image posted by Tzipi Livni on Facebook shows in a visual way the damage that the proposed Jewish nationality law does to the fabric of the country’s political culture. The text is from Israel’s Declaration of Independence. All reference … Continue reading →

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God Would Have To Have A Body (Edmund Husserl) (Ideas II)

Posted on November 25, 2014 by zjb

Part one of Husserl’s Ideas II is given over to the phenomenological “constitution of material nature.” Of all places, it’s here that Husserl speculates about God and spirits as embodied, about the objectivity of a world saturated by subjectivity (95, … Continue reading →

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Phantasy and Phenomenology (Edmund Husserl)

Posted on November 24, 2014 by zjb

Empathy and phantasy are an integral part of phenomenological method. In particular, it is phantasy, or imagination, that suggests that there’s more to consciousness than what presents itself to consciousness. Phenomenological consciousness includes as well that which lies outside the … Continue reading →

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Hatsune Miku: Post-Human Hologram Pop Star

Posted on November 23, 2014 by zjb

“Hatsune Miku is a Piece of Software. She May also be the Future of Music,” so reads the subtitle by Lindsay Zoladz in New York Magazine, which you can you read here. Maybe yes, maybe no, but certainly she’s awesome. … Continue reading →

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Affect & Phenomenology (In the Pleasure Attitude with Edmund Husserl)

Posted on November 21, 2014 by zjb

In the phenomenology advanced in Ideas II, Husserl proved himself to be an accomplished aesthete. He presents consciousness in gorgeous oscillation between the theoretical and the pleasure attitude. Phenomenological consciousness provides no fixed point perspective. Its intuitions are multiple, folding … Continue reading →

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