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	<title>Studies in a Dying Culture</title>
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	<description>What is to become of critical culture in this dumbed-down millennium?</description>
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		<title>Little Tiny, Common Objects, &amp; Jorge Luis Borges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting for bibliophiles, connoisseurs of curiosa, fans of Jorge Luis Borges: Two Discoveries, by Kevin O&#8217;Neill, MOSTLY (NOT) ON MCSWEENEY&#8217;S! blog, July 21, 2009 In addition to the discovery of Little Tiny’s Book of Objects (1880) and discussion of Victorian style in relation to McSweeney&#8217;s, there is a discussion of Jorge Luis Borges&#8217; story &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese philosophy: Hall &amp; Ames at it again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I began this post a few months ago, which since languished as an abandoned draft.  All that was there was: The nauseation continues, this time in a major reference tool, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, to wit: Chinese philosophy by David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames This site http://texttribe.com no longer exists. The Wayback [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://autodidactproject.org/blog/culture/index.php/2011/12/chinese-philosophy-hall-ames-at-it-again/</link>
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		<title>Leibniz&#8217; Spinoza anxiety revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I blogged on this subject before: Leibniz (entry in old blog) . . . in reference to this book written for a popular audience: Stewart, Matthew. The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World. New York: Norton, 2006. Stewart highlights Leibniz&#8217; fascination with Spinoza and the decisive challenge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://autodidactproject.org/blog/culture/index.php/2011/12/leibniz-spinoza-anxiety-revisited/</link>
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		<title>Maurice Cornforth on YouTube</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dialectical Materialism: READ THIS BOOK!!!! (YouTube video link) I guess I&#8217;m ultimately to blame for this by having uploaded  Materialism and the Dialectical Method by Maurice Cornforth, which is volume 1 of  the trilogy Dialectical Materialism: An Introduction. Nobody should have to read this old diamat stuff anymore. You&#8217;ll get a lot more out of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://autodidactproject.org/blog/culture/index.php/2011/08/maurice-cornforth-on-youtube/</link>
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		<title>Summer of ’11 Book Orgy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a sampling of hard-copy books I’ve been reading all or parts of since my birthday, more or less in reverse chronological order, but several of these simultaneously. This doesn’t include isolated essays, chapters, or online reading. Yovel, Yirmiyahu. Spinoza and Other Heretics: The Adventures of Immanence [v. 2]. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ralph Ellison in Progress: 2010-1970</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bradley, Adam. Ralph Ellison in Progress: From &#8220;Invisible Man&#8221; to &#8220;Three Days Before the Shooting&#8221;. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. viii, 244 pp. In 1999, an abbreviated selection from Ralph Ellison&#8217;s notoriously unfinished second novel was published. [1] Last year, a more extensive version, based on the entire extant corpus, was published, co-edited by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://autodidactproject.org/blog/culture/index.php/2011/08/ralph-ellison-in-progress-2010-1970/</link>
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		<title>The Archive of Lost Dreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The amazing underwater National Marine Park of Yucatan is the subject of . . . What Lies Beneath&#8230; . . . Jan. 24 post in Linda Hedrick&#8217;s marvelous blog Cerebral Boinkfest. Naturally, I couldn&#8217;t resist singling out an artwork about archivists. As Linda describes it: El Coleccionista de los Sueños Perdidos (The Archive of Lost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://autodidactproject.org/blog/culture/index.php/2011/01/the-archive-of-lost-dreams/</link>
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		<title>Farewell to Margaret Burroughs, Co-founder of DuSable Museum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This obituary appeared this year: Margaret Burroughs: Co-founder of DuSable Museum, prominent artist By Kristen Schorsch, Chicago Tribune &#8220;She started Chicago&#8217;s renowned African American history museum in her living room nearly 50 years ago&#8221; Commemorating another milestone in black achievement and saying farewell to one of the greats . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://autodidactproject.org/blog/culture/index.php/2010/12/farewell-to-margaret-burroughs-co-founder-of-dusable-museum/</link>
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		<title>Games &amp; anarchism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This draft has been gathering dust since September 27, 2008. So let me fill out the missing information: Anarchists are much more childish than games will ever be. Nevertheless, because one of my hobbies is board games, I picked up issue 66 of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, devoted to &#8216;anarchist games&#8217;. First, here are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confucianism &amp; democracy, Hall &amp; Ames</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This reference has been sitting as a draft for 3 years or so. First, I need to note that something is wrong with the University of Hawaii site, and that the publications of Peter Manicas can only be accessed via the Wayback Machine. Here is the link: Peter Manicas: Selected Published Papers Now here is [...]]]></description>
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