Index
Index
An accumulation of influences
| Subject | Author | Category | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| On the question of paradigms | Giorgio Agamben, via European Graduate School | Philosophy | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Wxn1L9Er0 |
| The virtues of Ayurvedic tongue-scraping | Art of Vedas | Health | https://artofvedas.com/pages/tongue-scraping-ayurvedic-guide |
| Jacqueline Rose on minds in flight and the heart’s complexities | Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker | Psychology | https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/21/how-the-critic-jacqueline-rose-puts-the-world-on-the-couch |
| The decline of the social contract in contemporary Ireland | Blindboyboatclub, via The Blindboy Podcast | Housing | https://shows.acast.com/blindboy/episodes/have-you-anything-to-say-about-the-fuel-protests-blindboy-or |
| An annual theatrical feast: the Athens Epidaurus Festival | Days of Art in Greece | Theatre | https://daysofart.gr/en/festivals/the-epidaurus-festival-2026-a-first-look-at-the-schedule/ |
| Being uncomfortable, yet stumbling forward | ANOHNI and Naomi Klein, via Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | The human condition | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SuNtj6ye0U |
| “It would be highly unintelligent to be fearless.” | Arundhati Roy, Deepa Fernandes, via City Arts & Lectures | Justice | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/arundhati-roy-deepa-fernandes/id1436346407?i=1000730295400 |
| The revolutionary compositions of Iannis Xenakis | Les Amis de Xenakis | Music | https://www.iannis-xenakis.org/en/ |
| Mona Helmy | Arab World Books | Social justice | https://www.health.harvard.edu/nutrition/making-sense-of-vitamins-and-minerals#excerpt |
| The Infinity of Lists by Umberto Eco | Mary Beard | Philosophy | https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/dec/12/umberto-eco-lists-book-review |
| Hesperia 73: Feasting in Homeric Epic | American School of Classical Studies at Athens | Philosophy | https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/uploads/media/hesperia/4134897.pdf |
| Modern Iranian Poetry | Kaveh Bassiri | Poetry | https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2015/03/modern-iranian-poetry-in-translation/ |
| Why Killing Animals Might Not Aways Be Wrong | Martha Nussbaum | Philosophy | https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/martha-nussbaum-why-killing-animals-might-not-always/id1743702376?i=1000727303841 |
| The Wolf Hour | Ela Yevtushenko | Poetry | https://humanrightsartmovement.org/ihraf-translates/the-wolf-hour-a-ukrainian-poem-written-and-translated-into-english-by-ela-yevtushenko |
| We Are Our Choices: The consequences of being severed from your True Self | Nuar Alsadir | Psychology | https://yalereview.org/article/alsadir-true-self-choice |
| The Cultural Life | Stephen Fry | The human condition | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pm5r |
| The nutrition and therapeutic potential of millets | National Library of Medecine | Food | https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11091339/ |
| The nomadic pleasures of hiking through 46 ancient Greek villages | Vittoria Traverso | Recreation | https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250812-a-hiking-trail-linking-forty-six-ancient-greek-villages |
| The full bottle on supplements | Harvard Medical School | Health/nutrition | https://www.health.harvard.edu/nutrition/making-sense-of-vitamins-and-minerals#excerpt |
| A year of William Kentridge | Kentridge Studio | Visual art | https://www.kentridge.studio/calendar/ |
| Cini Boeri: ‘decoration is not design’ | Designculture | Design | https://www.designculture.it/interview/cini-boeri.html |
| Truffaut’s take on women | Ada Pîrvu, Classiq Journal | Cinema | https://classiq.me/francois-truffauts-heroines |
| Richard Skelton’s hauntingly elemental Verse of Birds | Richard Allen, a closer listen | Music | https://acloserlisten.com/2012/07/18/richard-skelton-verse-of-birds/ |
| ‘Corrupted theorist’ Slavoj Žižek’s film picks | Criterion | Cinema | https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/609-slavoj-zizek-s-closet-picks |
| A report card: Australia and its discontents | George Megalogenis, Quarterly Essay | Politics | https://www.quarterlyessay.com.au/essay/2024/11/minority-report |
| The sublimely contemplative life of Robert Lax | Robert Hirschfield, Beshara Magazine | Literature | https://besharamagazine.org/arts-literature/robert-lax-a-life-slowly-lived/ |
| Jane Ira Bloom's Wild Lines: Emily Dickinson moored in jazz | textura | Music | https://www.textura.org/archives/b/bloom_wildlines.htm |
| Esalen’s penchant for transformation | Esalen | The human condition | https://www.esalen.org/about#founders |
| Idir’s reinvigoration of Algerian folk tradition | Jane E. Goodman, The Conversation | Music | https://theconversation.com/idir-how-a-song-from-the-village-took-algerian-music-to-the-world-141418 |
| Tony Tuckson: renowned abstract expressionist, single-minded curator | Art Gallery of NSW | Visual art | https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/artists/tuckson-tony/ |
| Giorgio Agamben’s state of exception | Simone Anders, Overland | Philosophy | https://overland.org.au/2022/10/what-are-we-going-to-do-with-giorgio-agamben/ |
| Alberto Kalach and the greenhouse that is T.A.X. | Pablo Rosenblueth | Architecture | https://www.kalach.com/taller |
| 65,000 years of First Nations art | James Banham | Visual art | https://www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/2024/june/potter-museum-of-art-will-reopen-in-2025-with-landmark-exhibition-65,000-years-a-short-history-of-australian-art |
| Yannis Ritsos: myth and resistance | Poetry Foundation | Poetry | https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/yannis-ritsos |
| Shining light on Elena Cassandra Trabotti | Shari Wölker, Paderborn University | Philosophy/feminism | https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/project/directory-of-women-philosophers/trabotti-elena-cassandra-1604-1652/ |
| Donald Thomson, dedicated advocate and scholar | National Museum of Australia | Indigenous rights/anthropology | https://indigenousrights.net.au/people/pagination/donald_thomson |
| Mary Robinson’s lifelong influence | The Elders | Leadership | https://theelders.org/profile/mary-robinson |
| Sweet Marjoram | Various | Ingredients | https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/marjoram |
| Enchanting flamboyance: Tambour Vision | Bertrand Belin | Music | https://www.bertrandbelin.com |
| A way of seeing John Berger | Nikos Papastergiadis | Literature | https://giramondopublishing.com/excerpt-john-berger-and-me-nikos-papastergiadis/ |
| Erudition on tap | Various, Fitzcarraldo Editions | Literature | https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/shop/essays/ |
| Decades of eloquent insight | Marilynne Robinson, The New York Review | Social commentary | https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/marilynne-robinson/?srsltid=AfmBOooTmM6IdBmqZPZ1ymfwIJx-fE-lmovA-Dw2JkHIh_0Hk87YLw-H |
| Quantifying what matters | Our World in Data, University of Oxford | Social justice | https://ourworldindata.org/data |
| The prolific brilliance of Muriel Spark | John Self, The Booker Library | Literature | https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/where-to-start-with-muriel-spark-a-guide-to-her-best-novels |
| An ominous beauty: Innocence | Kaija Saariaho | Opera | https://saariaho.org/works/innocence |
| Upholding human decency | Clooney Foundation for Justice | Social justice | https://cfj.org/our-story/ |
| Addressing injustices of colonisation | Sue-Anne Hunter, Yoorrook Justice Commission | Politics | https://www.sueannehunter.com/yoorrook-justice-commission |
| Elaine Scarry in conversation | Curtis Brown, Bidoun | Philosophy | https://www.bidoun.org/articles/elaine-scarry |
| Design in the cause of good | Breathe Architecture | Architecture | https://www.breathe.com.au/guides/houses |
| Byung-Chul Han on ‘phono sapiens’ | Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian | Philosophy | https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/18/the-crisis-of-narration-byung-chul-han-review |
| Speaking truth respectfully | Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic | Politics | https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/speaking-truth-without-fear/679901/ |
| Sonnenveld House: an embrace of Modernism | Nieuwe Instituut | Architecture | https://www.huissonneveld.nl/ |
| An archive to spur ongoing activism | 39 artists and collectives, 1975-2023 | Video | https://www.disobediencearchive.org/ |
| All you can view | Harvard Film Archive | Cinema | https://harvardfilmarchive.org/collections/programs |
| André 3000's magic flute | David Toop, 'The New York Review' | Music | https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/06/12/all-that-floats-and-drifts/ |
| The matter of consequences | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | Philosophy | https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/ |
| Louis Sauer: singularly progressive modernist | Anthony Paletta, Bloomberg | Architecture | https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-02-14/the-architect-who-mastered-low-rise-high-density-housing |
| Hartmut Rosa on resonance and alienation | Thijs Lijster, Robin Celikates, Hartmut Rosa, 'Krisis Journal' | Philosophy | https://archive.krisis.eu/beyond-the-echo-chamber-an-interview-with-hartmut-rosa-on-resonance-and-alienation/ |
| Le Corbusier’s turning point: Maisons Jaoul | Jessica F Angel | Architecture | https://jessica-f-angel.com/maison-jaoul |
| An enduring New Wave classic: Hiroshima Mon Amour | Criterion Collection | Cinema | https://www.criterion.com/films/217-hiroshima-mon-amour |
| Fondation Cartier’s fortieth anniversary | Fondation Cartier | Visual art | https://www.fondationcartier.com/en/history-and-mission/foundation-40-years |
| Lafcadio Hearn’s fairy-tale lives | Andre Codrescu, 'The Paris Review' | Literature | https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/02/the-many-lives-of-lafcadio-hearn/ |
| Elaine Scarry on beauty and justice | To the Best of Our Knowledge | Philosophy | https://www.ttbook.org/interview/beauty-justice-elaine-scarry |
| A politician of deserved renown and steadfast integrity | Office of Governor Janet T. Mills, State of Maine | Politics/democracy | https://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/about |
| Aid for penguins injured by oil spills | Penguin Foundation | Environmental crises | https://penguinfoundation.org.au/get-involved/penguin-jumpers |
| Robert Fagles: ‘ghostwriter for the great master’ | Patricia Storace, The Paris Review | Homeric literature | https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/930/the-art-of-translation-no-2-robert-fagles |
| Urgent calls to action from an unstinting activist | Bob Brown Foundation | Environmental crises | https://bobbrown.org.au/media/ |
| Seeking fresh ‘portals into the mysterious’ | Dean Kissick, Harpers Magazine | Visual arts | https://harpers.org/archive/2024/12/the-painted-protest-dean-kissick-contemporary-art/ |
| A critique of Dean Kissick on art and politics | Martin Herbert, ArtReview | Visual arts | https://artreview.com/can-you-age-out-of-the-artworld-opinion-martin-herbert-dean-kissick-harpers/ |
| Roger Arliner Young: a stellar zoologist sidelined by bigots | Leila McNeill, BBC | Discrimination | https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200930-arliner-young-the-black-biologist-failed-by-science |
| Céline Sciamma’s exquisitely hopeful Petite maman | Criterion Collection | Cinema | https://www.studiocanal.com/title/chinese-in-paris-1974/ |
| The abhorrent realities of salmon farming | Animals Australia | Environmental crises | https://animalsaustralia.org/our-work/farmed-animals/salmon-farming-exposed/ |
| Mercedes Barcha’s gracious strength of character | Felipe Restrepo Pombo, Words Without Borders | Literature | https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2020-11/the-discreet-strength-of-mercedes-barcha-restrepo-pombo-fitz/ |
| Liberty on the record: archives 1831-1980 | City of Westminster Archives Centre | History | https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/d703422a-ad39-41f5-85c0-27d13eb91ab6 |
| Ancient sculptures imbued with fragrance | Richard Whiddington, artnet | Antiquities / Fragrance | https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/juan-rulfo-pedro-paramo/ |
| A long and distinguished career, built from scratch | Derek Wrigley | Design / Architecture | https://www.derekwrigley.com/ |
| William Anastasi, voyager of the conceptual | Galeria Mascota | Visual art | https://www.galeriamascota.com/artists/william-anastasi |
| Wim Wenders’ charming eclecticism | Criterion | Cinema | https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/634-wim-wenders-closet-picks |
| Polemic-free enquiry and analysis | Various | Philosophy | https://journalofcontroversialideas.org |
| Erudition shared generously | Kosmos Society / various | Classics | https://kosmossociety.org |
| Acts of selection: translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses | Jhumpa Lahiri, The Dial | Literature in translation / Classics | https://www.thedial.world/articles/literature/issue-25/jhumpa-lahiri-bone-into-stone |