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5月30日(土)のつぶやき その2

2015-05-31 05:18:49 | 日記

The Economist | The French right: Republicans in name aussi economist.com/news/europe/21…


The Economist | Urban planning: Rus in urbe redux economist.com/news/internati…


The Economist | The Washington Post: Exploring the Amazon economist.com/news/business/…


The Economist | Multilingualism: Do you see what I see? economist.com/news/science-a…


この図を見ていると、今回の震源が深いのもうなづける。フィリピン海プレートに沈み込む太平洋プレートは深い。 pic.twitter.com/rjmijJ7ibb

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5月30日(土)のつぶやき その1

2015-05-31 05:18:48 | 日記

Originated in France in the 1850's as a backlash against Romanticism, Realism is a style of arts that truthfully represents subject matter-


by empasizing the sordid elements of life. Realism movements also include the verismo style of opera, literary realism, theatrical realism -


and Italian neorealist cinema. Realist painters selected as their subjects ordinary engaged in everyday activities or farming.


Its chief practitioners are Gustave Courbet, Jean-Francois Millet, and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.


Impressionism is a style of painting in France in the 19th century that depicts the visual impression of the moment,-


especially by using an ever-changing blend of light and color rather than exact details of form.


They often painted outdoors by using sketching technique of dabs of lighter, more brilliant colors instead of the traditional muted colors.


Thanks to pioneering efforts of Edouard Manet in the 1860s, it became by far the most revolutionary and influential style of painting-


in the second half of the 19th century. The well-known Impressionist painters includes Claunde Monet, Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas.


The Economist | Urban policy: How to shrink a city economist.com/news/leaders/2…


The Economist | Japan and the AIIB: To join or not to join economist.com/news/asia/2165…


The Economist | 5G networks: Your phone on steroids economist.com/news/technolog…


The Economist | Airline interiors: Flying into the future economist.com/news/technolog…


The Economist | Air travel: Watching the world go by economist.com/news/technolog…


The Economist | Energy storage: Charge of the lithium brigade economist.com/news/technolog…



5月27日(水)のつぶやき

2015-05-28 05:13:17 | 日記

英国では2014年、すべての取引に占める現金の割合が初めて50パーセントを下回った。(昨日のアクセス3位) wired.jp/2015/05/26/cas… pic.twitter.com/CjYmZTJFHD

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日本翻訳大賞受賞作 パトリク・オウジェドニーク著『エウロペアナ』読了。副題は二十世紀史概説だが、時系列ではまったくなく、伝聞形態の嘘か本当かよくわからないコラージュが並んだ、虚ろな記憶のような文体。


二十世紀ヨーロッパの闇としてのナチズムと共産主義が、決して消えない記憶として繰り返される様は、人類の進化という単線的な概念を消し去って余りある。歴史という物語は誰かの意識の混濁の中にあり、確かなものではなく、140Pあまりでそれを印象付ける本書は実に佳作。


自分の人生の記憶みたいなものもそのときどきの気分や天気や胃腸の具合で結構入れ替わったりしているもの。内側から自己を統合する術なんて分かりようがないから、気分や天気や胃腸の具合に日々を委ねつつ、生と性を超えるインテリな何かに関わっていられればそれでいいな。



5月24日(日)のつぶやき

2015-05-25 05:10:13 | 日記

Baroque is a grandiose, theatrical and elaborate style of architecture, music and art, which flourished in Europe, -


particularly in Roman Catholic countries, during the 17th and early 18th centuries.This style originated from the Counter-Reformation,-


when the Catholic Church launched an overly emotional appeal to the followers through art and architecture.


Its major architectural characteristics are curvaceousness, a dizzying array of rich surface treatments, twisting elements, -


gilded statuary, and vividly painted ceilings.


The outstanding practitioners are Bernini in sculpture, Rubens in paintings, and Monteverdi, Bach and Handel in Music.


The Economist | Modi’s rule: India’s one-man band economist.com/news/leaders/2…


The Economist | Asia and the world economy: A faulty gauge economist.com/news/finance-a…


The Economist | Democratising medicine: The crowd will see you now economist.com/news/science-a…


ヤン・シュバンクマイエルの『ファウスト』をDVD鑑賞。実写と操り人形とクレイアニメが入り混じった他に類を見ないグロテスクワールド。ゲーテのファウストの下敷きにしながらも、紛れもないシュバンクマイエルワールド。小説にとっての文体同様、手法こそが映画。この変な質感はたまに見たい。



5月18日(月)のつぶやき

2015-05-19 05:07:35 | 日記

おくやみ・直木賞作家の車谷長吉さんが死去 : 読売新聞 yomiuri.co.jp/culture/201505…

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher who was a pioneer of existentialism along with Kierkegaard.


He based his philosophical reasoning on the denial of all traditional values and authority, which is called 'Nihilism', -


and summed up their decadence in the phrase 'God is dead', Nietzsche repudiated Christianity's compassion -


as the envy and hatred of the weak, which he termed as 'resentment'. His doctrine emphasized the way of living independent of God -


as the 'Superman', who overcomes the conventional values, based on the concept of the 'will to power' to grow strong.


His philosophy influenced post-modernism, which is critical of modern rationalism.



5月17日(日)のつぶやき

2015-05-18 05:20:20 | 日記

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was the German philosopher who completed German idealism.


He devolved a method of elaborating the teleological development of history, which was a basic tool of materialism, socialism and communism.


The 'Absolute Spirit', the fundamental existence to drive all historical events, was central to his thinking.


His method is based on reasoning and argumentation that examine and integrate opposing concepts to find the truth, -


which is known as 'dialectic'. He applied his method to ethical life and human consciousness as well as history.


His metaphysics is characterized by the comprehensive and encyclopedic system, -


which is divided into the science of logic, the philosophy of Nature, and the philosophy of Spirit.


Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a Danish philosopher who was the founder of existentialism, opposed to idealism.


He began his philosophical thinking by denying the abstract reasoning of Hegel.


'Subjectivity', which is the essence of the individual human being, was central to his thinking.


Kierkegaard stressed the importance of the life experiences including life and death, and angst, -


although he suffered from despair which leads the spirit to death. His doctrine emphasized the freedom of human beings to make choices-


based on the belief that only human beings have absolute value and ability to make choices.


He argued that these qualities distinguish human beings from other animals.


マイク・リー監督『ネイキッド』復刻DVDを鑑賞。世紀末映画の大傑作は20年の時を経て黙示録的内容に益々現代味を帯びている。演者が発する緊張感は半端なく、演じる方もきっと命懸けに違いなく、のちに若くして亡くなったカトリン・カートリッジはきっとこの映画で寿命を縮めたはず。


言葉で悪態の限りを尽くし、映像で退廃の限りを表現し続けるこの映画は、善悪を超えたところの人間存在の素をあぶり出し、見る者にも己の素を迫る。疲れる。自分の現実の方がマシだと思えたら、それが癒しにまでなる。


大阪都構想が否決されて、本田が得点できなかったからなんとなく気分が落ち込んで月曜日へ。月曜日らしいな。


大きな物語よりも、小さな、ささやかな物語の方へ。


小さい者こそ可愛くて愛おしい。


大きな者は動かせない。ならば無理には動かない。


平均的な70代が将来の日本とか都市とかを考えることなんてまずないでしょう。それよりただただ楽して自分が長生きするのを考えるのが人間だと思います。その生命力を否定するのはなかなか難しい問題です。


住民投票というのは最も地元に張り付いている人間の意志が反映されるものなんですね。当たり前といえば当たり前の現実を前にして、積極的鎖国主義こそ今後の方針にふさわしい気がします。何が積極的なのかは、体力次第ですが。



5月16日(土)のつぶやき

2015-05-17 05:10:39 | 日記

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was a Genevan philosopher who was one of the most influential figures in the Age of Enlightenment-


and a pioneer of romanticism. His political theory formed one of the main bases of democratic thought in modern Western civilization.


The general will, which aims at the common interest, was central to his thinking.


Rousseau emphasized the establishment of democratic consensual politics based on the general will, -


which can improve the fundamental goodness of human nature warped by civilization.


He argued the importance of morality and virtue by focusing on the emotional and passionate sides of human beings-


including self-love and compassion in the state of nature, which was later summed up in the phrase 'Back to Nature'.


Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was a German philosopher who was one of the outstanding figures in modern Western philosophy -


and the starting point of German Idealism. He founded the school of transcendentalism -


which holds that knowledge of the external world depends on sense-impressions coordinated by reason.


His attainment is called 'Copernican Revolution', since he drastically changed the system of knowledge in the conventional epistemology,-


which was dependent on the objects. Kant limited our cognizable area to the percepts ('phenomena') -


instead of intangible God and thing-in-itself (noumenon'). He established his critical philosophy by synthesizing early modern rationalism,


empiricism and Enlightenment thought, through critical examination of reason.


The Economist | Tax-free debt: The great distortion economist.com/news/leaders/2…


The Economist | The media in Japan: Speak no evil economist.com/news/asia/2165…


The Economist | Japan and corporate governance: At the sharp end economist.com/news/business/…


The Economist | News companies and Facebook: Friends with benefits? economist.com/news/business/…


The Economist | How long will you live?: Getting a grip economist.com/news/science-a…



5月13日(水)のつぶやき

2015-05-14 05:06:32 | 日記

Rene Descartes (1596-1650) was a French philosopher and the Father of modern philosophy who laid the foundations -


for 17th-century continental rationalism, as opposed to the empiricist school of thoughts.


He based his philosophical reasoning on the principle of doubt, which is called methodical doubt.


Descartes began his system by doubting everything except the existence of his own mind, -


and summed up this single certainty in the Latin phrase, Cogito, which is his first principle of philosophy.


Unlike empiricists, he introduced the 'deductive method' , which is the inference of particular instances from a general law.


He developed a dualistic theory regarding mind and matter as separate though interacting each other.


池田 信夫: 70年後に日本はどうなるの? bit.ly/1G4Vqqs #こども版 #アゴラ

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CNNの過剰な表現は、普通に悪だと思う。


白水社とみすず書房にある程度囲まれていたい。


日本翻訳大賞の受賞作が品切れだ。残念だけどいいことだ。



5月12日(火)のつぶやき

2015-05-13 05:08:30 | 日記

中村文則著『教団X』読了。表現の極限がずっと続くような、最後まで緊張感のある物語。己の全てをぶっこんでくる創作って、生命の姿勢そのものを感じて、涙腺周辺の緩みだけではなくて、腹に響いて体温が上がるような感覚になる。時を超える程の震えの連鎖を誘発できる物語に出会えて、大満足。


ポスト冷戦時代において、すでにして古典たりうる小説は、影響力・破壊力・浸透力からみて、ウェルベックの『素粒子』とカズオ・イシグロの『わたしを離さないで』あたりかなあ。その辺と比較しても、『教団X』は凄かったなあ。



5月10日(日)のつぶやき

2015-05-11 05:08:02 | 日記

塩野七生『ローマ亡き後の地中海世界』第3巻読了。15世紀から16世紀にかけての地中海世界はスペイン、フランス、トルコの若き君主たちとローマ法皇、ヴェネチア共和国のパワーゲームの世界。海賊は海軍となり総力戦の時代。ルネサンスは人間同士の力比べでもあり、力は海で試される。


キリスト教がイスラム教と地中海で覇権を争っていた時にミケランジェロは天地創造とか最後の審判を描いていたんだなあ。それも、宗教的な観点ばかりでなく、人間を研究対象としてじっくり観察するような視点で。