A good article interpreting Arthur Danto's essay "The End of Art".
Link: https://hyperallergic.com/191329/an-illustrated-guide-to-arthur-dantos-the-end-of-art/
And, if you're fussy about sources, the original article (.pdf): https://moodle.ufsc.br/pluginfile.php/1407250/mod_resource/content/1/Danto%20-%20A%20philosophical%20Defense.pdf
Meanwhile, to note, this has been considered before, consider's Hegel's end of art thesis: http://www.rae.com.pt/Danto%20hegel%20end%20art.pdf
Which might be referring to an entirely different idea.
Meanwhile, I'll leave you these:
Ecclesiastes 1:9
"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun."
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And, while ongoing rumours swirl about Trump's alleged (and really, indisputable) ties with Russia, France faces it's own battle with the far right.
Two links that should make you think:
Link: http://time.com/4627780/russia-national-front-marine-le-pen-putin/
and the ongoing speculation over the French election: http://live.reuters.com/Event/French_Elections_2017
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but Russia seems to have had a big hand in subsidizing the far right in a lot of countries at the moment. Of course, Xenophobia is the natural result of allowing too much immigration/change too quickly, bound to fuel nationalist sentiments, but the Russians are capitalizing on that. They are - generally - "Walking softly and carrying a big stick", and like it or not we're mirroring their politics and oligarchy time and again through increasingly corrupt democracies, while they remain suspiciously in the shadows. Which makes me suspect that maybe America isn't the superpower it thinks it is, and if Russia is merely biding it's time in the wings until opportunity presents itself, what should we expect?
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It's a curious thing, but scientists have identified 208 eight new minerals, frequently at mining sites where exposed to the elements (water, air, etc) entire new minerals are formed.
Link: http://www.mining.com/human-activity-creates-208-new-mineral-species/
Imagine the chemistry that occurs when you're space probes drop into places like Jupiter and Saturn, completely foreign environments and conditions. Curious.
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A brief article on how little Darwin worked, to extraordinary results.
Link: http://nautil.us/issue/46/balance/darwin-was-a-slacker-and-you-should-be-too
Which kind of struck a chord, as I'm (when not at work) a bit of a slacker, only nowhere near as productive. I mean, I don't even manage the walks, let alone the wife, the reading, the rest of it, yet I still get nothing done, and I've planned for all of the above...clearly there's something is wrong...
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