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Middlebrow is not the solution

Middlebrow is not the solution

INTERCULTURALE.NET - NETWORK PER LA RICERCA E LE PRATICHE kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products Vanishing Point: How to disappear in America without a trace Where there's water, life is possible. True, it may be very difficult and very hard to live, depending, but anyone who's driven, hiked, or camped in the American South West will have noticed that cities and ranches crop up where there's surface water or where there's been a well dug. Within the state of California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado, there are deserts, mesas, mountains, and forests where normally people never or rarely visit; not-so-secret places where there's water, access to a road within a day's hike, and where a fairly rugged individual may hide while remaining basically healthy, marginally well fed, and reasonably sane. In this section I'll look at two such environments, neither of which I would recommend, but one of which I'd suggest is a reasonable way to live in basic health while either on the run, hiding out from the law, old girl friends, the draft for an illegal war, putative wives and such. Where exactly? How I Would Do It Some Other Areas

community - a review of the theory Community. What is community and why should educators be concerned with it? We explore the development of theory around community, and the significance of boundaries, social networks and social norms – and why attention to social capital and communion may be important. contents: approaching the theory of community · community and boundary · community and network · community – norms and habits · social capital and community · communion and community · further reading · references · links · how to cite this article Since the late nineteenth century, ‘the use of the term community has remained to some extent associated with the hope and the wish of reviving once more the closer, warmer, more harmonious type of bonds between people vaguely attributed to past ages’ (Elias 1974, quoted by Hoggett 1997: 5). Beyond this there are issues around the way ‘community’ appears in political discourse. Approaching the theory of community Place. Anthony P. Boundary and community Education and community

The Awl - Be Less Stupid. Don Zauker Have you seen this?! Xka Pastora | Centro internacional para la investigación, conservación y divulgación de la Salvia Divinorum Pro Cameras, Video Editing, Motion Graphics wduch | Wlodzislaw Duch blog on cognitive science, mind, consciosuness, spirit and all that Athens Video Art Festival 2011

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