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Arts RSS FeedsA Chance to Join the World · Neal Ascherson: A Future for Abkhazia - On the way to the frontier, we stopped the car for a last look at Abkhazia. A new monument stood by the road, the effigy of a scowling, whiskered Abkhaz chieftain with sword and shield. The statue commemorates the war of 1992-93 which routed the Georgian army, cost ten thousand dead on both sides, and established an 'independent' Abkhazian state....Feed Source: www.lrb.co.uk Lessons of Zimbabwe · Mahmood Mamdani: Mugabe in Context - There is no denying Mugabe's authoritarianism, or his willingness to tolerate and even encourage the violent behaviour of his supporters. His policies have helped lay waste the country's economy, though sanctions have played no small part, while his refusal to share power with the country's growing opposition movement, much of it based in the trade unions, has led to a bitter impasse. This view of Zimbabwe's crisis can be found everywhere, from the Economist and the Financial Times to the Guardian and the New Statesman, but it gives us little sense of how Mugabe has managed to survive. For he has ruled not only by coercion but by consent, and his land reform measures, however harsh, have won him considerable popularity, not just in Zimbabwe but throughout southern Africa.... An Address in Mayfair · Donald MacKenzie: How to Start a Hedge Fund - You could walk around Mayfair all day and not notice them. Hedge funds don't - can't - advertise. The most you'll see is a discreet nameplate or two. An address in Mayfair counts in the world of hedge funds. It shows you're serious, and have the money and confidence to pay the world's most expensive commercial rents. A nondescript office no larger than a small flat can cost £150,000 a year. Something bigger and in the style that hedge funds like (glass walls, contemporary furniture) can set you back a lot more. It's fortunate therefore that hedge funds don't need a lot of space. Two rooms may be enough: one for meetings, for example with potential investors; one for trading and doing the associated bookkeeping. Some funds consist of only four or five people. Even a fairly large fund can operate with twenty or fewer.... Sons and Heirs · Robert Vitalis: The bin Ladens and Their Money - Steve Coll's book tells two stories: a big one about how the bin Laden family cashed in on the oil bonanza in Saudi Arabia, and a smaller one about Osama's role in the family business before he turned to holy warfare. Although well written, lucid and packed with useful detail, The Bin Ladens doesn't establish much of a connection between the family firm in Saudi Arabia and Osama bin Laden's jihad in Afghanistan, Yemen, Sudan and America, except that oil wealth funded both. The bin Laden group isn't among the world's largest engineering businesses, although readers might finish this book believing that it is: Coll calls it Saudi Arabia's Halliburton, even though the latter is an oil services firm, not a construction company. He is at his best excavating details from the mountain of documents generated by various bin Laden brothers in the lawsuits and divorce settlements that have followed on several decades of deals gone sour.... Self-Made Aristocrats · Adam Phillips: The Wittgensteins and Their Money - 'Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must be silent': it's a notion children pick up quite quickly. It is also, of course, a remark about the limits of what we can use language to do, but Wittgenstein is unusual as a philosopher because he so often writes about the difficulties a child has growing up in a family. His wish to clarify the world as he finds it, his stress on 'perspicuous representations' and 'just that understanding which consists in "seeing connections"', turns the figure of the philosopher into the kind of child who wants to understand what is going on in his family, as opposed to the child who takes refuge from his family in a fantasy life. For Wittgenstein, this is the difference between working out what people are using words to do in a more or less shared family life and being a metaphysician living in a world (or a system) of your own making.... Talking Corpses · Tim Parks on 'Gomorrah' - 'When Lot lived in Sodom and Gomorrah,' Peter wrote in his Second Epistle, 'he was oppressed and tormented day after day by their lawless deeds.' Having grown up in Naples, Roberto Saviano is similarly tormented and oppressed. Gomorrah is his account of the lawless deeds of the Camorra, the Neapolitan Mafia. Conveniently assonant as the two names may be, the crimes of Naples are not those we associate with the Cities of the Plain, and Saviano is not the righteous man who withdraws when God steps in to incinerate the sinful townsfolk. On the contrary, he seems to be drawn to what he abhors, and does everything in his power to see the Camorra and its lawlessness close up.... On Complaining · Elif Batuman: How to Stay Sane - Flaubert the satirist buried Bouvard and Pécuchet alive beneath an avalanche of names and things and methodologies; Roudinesco the philosopher is offering us a conceptual shovel. What one immediately notices about this shovel is its close resemblance to the avalanche: Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida looks very much like a vast ledger full of entries for 'people who have become things'. (Would Bouvard and Pécuchet feel or think any better if they found such a thing in the garden shed?) For most of its length the book has the same 'talking-head' effect that initially seemed to be an object of parody. As in Flaubert's dictionary, ideas and names rain onto the page in a chronologically chaotic barrage: Roudinesco is the kind of writer who breezily refers to 'the tradition of philosophical conceptuality to which belonged names like . . . Gaston Bachelard, Spinoza, Hegel, Montesquieu and Freud'. As Flaubert's dictionary is alphabetical... Double Thought · Michael Wood: Kafka in the Office - It's certainly an excellent arrangement,' the official says, 'always unimaginably excellent, even if in other respects hopeless.' We can easily picture, or even recall, arrangements that are excellent for some and hopeless for others, and that is what the phrase 'in other respects' invites us to do. But the larger rhythm and grammar of the sentence ask us to go beyond this option, to think both contrary thoughts at once, taking excellence and hopelessness as partners in an intricate dance, each calling for and implying the other; as if the arrangement is excellent because it's hopeless, hopeless because it's excellent. Can we manage this logical feat? And where are we?... It's not the bus: it's us · Thomas Sugrue: Stars, Stripes and Civil Rights - In the United States the flag has the status of a religious icon, a totem. It cannot be carried horizontally or flat, but must always be 'aloft and free'. There is a protocol for folding it, it can't touch the ground, it can't be burned except when it is worn out or irreparably damaged and then only as part of a special ritual. Military men and women salute it, civilians hold their right hands over their left breasts when singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner', and schoolchildren pledge allegiance to it. It is also a ubiquitous presence in the American landscape. The Red, White and Blue waves from people's porches, flies over car dealerships and gas stations and adorns flower-pots; cars are festooned with it in the form of bumper stickers, window decals and antenna pennants. The flag decorates the altars of churches of every denomination except those of a few dissenting sects. And it has become a necessary accessory for political candidates. Early in his campaign, Barack Obama was criticis... Diary · Keith Gessen: Watching the Rouble Go Down - The financial crisis - or, as we like to call it here, 'the effects of the American and European financial crisis on Russia' - has taken a little while to get going, but it's going now. Yesterday my grandmother sat me down for a serious conversation: she wanted to know if she should take her rouble-denominated life savings out of the Sberbank and put them into dollars. Everyone's a financial adviser now. Or rather, I'm a financial adviser now. This is not good.... Letters - The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 23... Table of contents - Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 23... 'Big Ticket' Drawing Gifts - I'm usually pretty keen on small holiday gifts - as a token of affection, you can't go far wrong with chocolate. (Especially 70% cocoa, organic fair trade. hint, hint .) But ... Draw a Christmas Tree - Step by Step - I've been trying to avoid Christmas - despite the canned carols which started playing at the local mall mid-November. Somewhere around December 23 I'll start getting organized. For those of ... A New Toy: Corel Painter Essentials 4 - Oops, I mean, new tool! It's for WORK, right? (Just nod and smile like you believe me .) I've been coveting a decent software package ever since I switched to the ... Art and Lifelong Learning - Many Drawing/Sketching readers are just coming back to art after years spent focusing on career and family. It's wonderful to hear from people who have rediscovered their creative side and ... Graphite Pencil FAQ - Choosing and Using Pencils - Need to know what the 'H' and 'B' and those numbers mean? Which one to pick for line drawing, which one for shading? And can you use an eraser, or ... Colored Pencil Tips - Getting started in colored pencil drawing? Check out these colored pencil drawing tips. Also read the Colored Pencil Basics article for an introduction to hatching, scumbling and burnishing in colored ... Draw a Dragon - Step by Step - Drawing dragons is great fun, and you can really let your imagination run wild. If you aren't sure where to start, have a go at this easy fire breathing dragon ... Grids / Copying / Tracing - When I last featured an article on Grid Drawing step-by-step, some of our forum members shared some brilliant ideas for making it a bit easier. Try some of these ... Life Drawing: Drawing the Human Figure - Attending a life class is an essential part of traditional art training. Often life drawing groups are run by community centers and art groups, so that even if you can't ... Paper Review: Generic Sketchbooks - Who hasn't used a generic sketchbook? You know, those ones from the bottom shelf at the art store, just a few dollars. Some have a cardboard back and a ... Copyright © 2008, Sat Live On Pc. All Rights Reserved. |