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Post-Human Future = Space Ape

Posted on March 26, 2020 by zjb
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(Posthuman Catalogue) Jewish Art & Aesthetics of Judaism

Posted on December 6, 2019 by zjb

Stepping back at the long arc of Jewish art in tandem with the history of Jewish thought gives to view a kind of cataloge. Included are black inky letters their script and configuration, rosettes and arabesques and other ornamental figures, … Continue reading →

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Deer Coming Down The Hill & Crossing the Street (Syracuse)

Posted on September 9, 2019 by zjb
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(God-Like) Sleeping Heifer (New York State Fair 2019)

Posted on September 4, 2019 by zjb

Do they all do this when they are sleeping? Asleep, the young heifer folds up into herself like a fetus or an ancient ledger book. The almost utter pliability of the body suggests at rest a kind of perfect, divine … Continue reading →

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(Trump Trade Wars) The Cows Are Gone (New York State Fair 2019)

Posted on August 30, 2019 by zjb

The jewel in the crown at a big State Fair is the cowsheds. Dairy-families bring their stock to show, camping out and caring for the animals, and connecting with each other and with the larger social public. This year we … Continue reading →

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Animals (Franz Marc & Martin Buber)

Posted on May 31, 2019 by zjb

Yellow Cow This terrestrial surface is a physical place of noise and violence. Redemption is its metamorphosis. Franz Marc, who was killed at Verdun on the Western Front, was a tragic figure to those who memorialized him. Writing his obituary … Continue reading →

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(Bar Yochnei & Gigantic Rotten Egg) Medieval Hebrew Duck

Posted on February 27, 2019 by zjb

“This is bird that’s called Bar Yochnei” BL Hebrew Project‏ @BL_HebrewMSS FollowingFollowing @BL_HebrewMSS #duckweek This duck can be seen in the North French Miscellany (Add MS 11639 f.517v, 1277-1324). Technically it is the Bar Yochnei, a mythical bird large enough to block … Continue reading →

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Hunger Art (Chaim Soutine)

Posted on August 22, 2018 by zjb

“Still Life with Herring” sounds like a Jewish spoof on the French fine art tradition. From the same milieu of Russian Jews in Paris, Chaim Soutine is the anti-Chagall. There is nothing dreamy about his work. There is no lift … Continue reading →

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Embryos & Animals in the Mishnah (Rachel Neis)

Posted on May 9, 2018 by zjb

(R. R. Neis, Embryotics for Beginners, 2015, mixed media on paper, 12″x18″) Jewish Studies can use a lot more theory, but theories, especially new ones, are only as good as they work. They need to be tested on stuff. Do theories … Continue reading →

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Kosher Cloned Pork (Halakhah & the Biological Sciences)

Posted on March 22, 2018 by zjb

According to the rabbi in this article in the Times of Israel, Yuval Cherlow of the Tzohar Rabbinical Organization in Israel, cloned meat loses its animal character, thus permitting the kosher consumption of cloned pork, with milk. The opinion suggests … Continue reading →

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