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Life’s Little Deconstruction Book: Self-help for the Post-hip
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I had about 30 of these and gave them away over the years for fun, time to order some more :-)Reviews:
Columbus Dispatch, Gary Budzak, 22 December 1998
The best humor trade paperback of 1998….Boyd simultaneously pokes fun at the purveyors of “Life’s Little Instruction Book” and pompous postmodernists such as Foucault and Derrida. “Accessorize your rebellion” with this guide.Ingram
Like postmodernism itself, this tiny manual is a work of inspired piracy, melding cutting-edge cultural theory with the corporate and computer lingos that permeate our lives.Book Description
Portable Po-Mo, Disposable Derrida, Foucault-to-Go. This tiny manual provides an introduction to theoretical posturing, a commentary on postmodernism, a subversive satire, and a tribute to the love-hate relationship many of us have with fashionable ideas-all in a very few words. Like postmodernism itself, Life’s Little Deconstruction Book is a work of inspired piracy, melding cutting-edge cultural theory with the corporate and computer lingos that permeate our lives. Infused with humor, intellectual rigor, and a certain poetic sensibility, it provides day-by-day instruction for the contemporary scene, requiring no commitment, yet still delivering intellectually. (6.) Expose depth as another surface. (39.) Be as if. (41.) Maneuver between pastiche and mish mash. (66.) Be a willy-nilly citizen of the world. (97.) Negotiate identity. (179.) Manufacture nostalgia. (180.) Temp. (190.) Cut and paste. (200.) Collect world views. (237.) Take irony for granted.
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Great advice for web design and layout here
and for a site that breaks all the rules, and is amazing go here, http://www.ni9e.com
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The Times warns iPod users against using the bundled headphones when using the MP3 player in public places: “The distinctive ‘earbud’ white headphones are a giveaway to criminals that a highly desirable iPod, costing up to £400, is concealed about the street-walking music lover, according one reader: “Todays UK “The Times” (UK’s 2nd major broadsheet) newspaper carries a front page article and photograph detailing the rise in attacks on iPod owners by muggers and reports police advise owners to avoid using the tell-tale white iPod earphones.”But Apple, which has sold two million of the devices, refused to recolour its headphones, saying its customers would prefer to be robbed than be seen wearing something less trendy.
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From my friend Mike at Soul Farers
“In one of Jonathan Edward’s sermons he comments about the current (18th century) scientific era, which gives so much greater insight into reality than the poor apostle Paul had. We always seem to be in danger of thinking that our era has the corner on clarity.
Whether emerging pastors ever attend seminary or not, they should all be forced at gunpoint to take at least a year’s worth of church history courses. It might help shake the belief that true Christianity began the day we were born.
The Constantian era was clearly institutionalism at its deepest. But in that era there were faithful scribes who labored to protect and pass on the scriptures with integrity. In that era emerged the various monastic groups that continue to inform our hunger for spirituality.
True Christianity didn’t start with Martin Luther, and theological innovation shouldn’t end with whatever new list of propostions the National Association of Evangelicals (or whoever) comes up with.
Mike”
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The Future of the Past by Alexander Stille
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Superb book, bought for me by a friend. Here is a review;From Publishers Weekly
The Great Sphinx of Giza, “part lion, part pharaoh, part god,” is slowly dying. Large chunks of limestone crack off each day, the soft middle portion of its body is vulnerable and, eventually, the head will become unstable. Though Egyptologists try to restore and preserve the great monument, much of their work does more harm than good. In the disturbing words of one archeologist: “You study it, you kill it.” That comment best captures the paradox at the heart of Stille’s splendid book: scholars work feverishly to study and preserve precious monuments, rare species and ancient manuscripts, relying on ever more advanced forms of technology in their efforts, while the accelerating rate of technological change industrialization, population growth and pollution threatens to destroy these treasures. Hence, a cycle of preservation and destruction perpetuates itself. Stille (Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic), a lovely storyteller, brings to life the passionate and forceful personalities of preservationists, dedicated scholars, bald opportunists, looters and other key players in the world of conservation and preservation. He examines the dying traditions of canoe making and oral poetry on an island off the coast of Papua New Guinea; the tombaroli (tomb robbers) of Sicily who have helped to make illicit antiquities the third most valued item in the world’s black markets; devastating levels of pollution in the beloved and holy Ganges river; and one man’s ultimately scandalous attempt to modernize the 550-year-old Vatican library. A frequent contributor to the New Yorker (where parts of this book were previously published), Stille consistently offers a powerful narrative, rich with anecdote, detailed description and lively dialogue. This is a must read for anyone interested in the preservation of our world’s decaying treasures.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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We baptised 3 people yesterday. I love baptisms, the symbol, story and confession of new faith. I remembered when I became a christian, and hoped to start a church that would have new christians in it. Here we are 18 years later, and it’s happening, regularly.
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David Murphy gave me permission to post his research paper on “WHAT IS BEST, MODERN OR POST-MODERN COMMUNITY? – A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE ON COMMUNITY AND CULTURE.”here
Enjoy, I did :-)
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I just came across this quote from John Eldredge’s Waking the Dead:“(Eldredge quoting art historian Kenneth Clark) We have grown so used to the idea that the Crucifixion is the supreme symbol of Christianity, that it is a shock to realize how late in the history of Christian art its power was recongnized. In the first art of Christianity it hardly appears; and the earliest example, on the doors of Santa Sabina in Rome [around A.D. 430], is stuck away in a corner, almost out of sight…early Christian art is concerned with miracles, healings, and with hopeful aspects of the faith like the Ascension and the Resurrection.”
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Superb interview with Dallas Willard here and online talk by him (real player one file) here for mac users (thank Jon Halliwell for the heads up), on “what is the Gospel?” If you have trouble with that link and/or are on a PC try here
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Biblical storytelling conveys the realities of our faith better than almost any other form of communication. Article in christianity and renewal