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  • Different Worlds

    There are many worlds in the 19e and 20e. Who lives in this building with the creative tile work? I imagine an artist lives there. The neighborhood is dotted with artist studios. They beautify and add interest to the area and also challenge its visual norms.   There is street art, too. Sometimes one piece…
    July 1, 2019
    Café, Capitalism, France, Gentrification, Paris, Politics
  • Photo of breakfast nook at the Sleep Inn

    What’s Going on in this Country? Or, Plato at the Sleep Inn

    I just returned from a lovely philosophy conference held at Pennsylvania State University.  I read a paper in which I argued that, for Plato, even ugly or plain things become beautiful when they are with certain other things that together make a beautiful whole.   The conference was in the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference…
    October 21, 2018
    Philosophy, Politics