The term commons originated in the historian Peter Linebaugh’s book The Magna Carta Manifesto, which refers to the history of the commons, with the founding documents of Britain and America referring to the right of people to use the ‘commons’ to meet their needs during and before the enclosure movement. Most English people, called […]

A flower is a world, a leaf is a bodhi——Buddhist.   To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour —William Blake There is a philosophical saying in the Buddhist scriptures: “A flower is a […]

  Duchamp mentioned in the 1946 that “The great trouble with art in this country [the United States] at present, and apparently in France also, is that there is no spirit of revolt— no new ideas appearing among the younger artists. They are following along the paths beaten out by their predecessors, trying to do […]

  With Professor Neil sharing, I listened to a series of conversations on art and philosophy led by Professor Phil Ford and writer JF Martel, discussing difficult ideas and the art of opening cracks in what we are happy to call ‘reality’. Among other things, they claim that “weird research” is not a joke, nor […]