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nakatani-seminar · 8 months ago
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【解築学ゼミ】2024年度活動目標とプレゼミ
解築学ゼミ ゼミ長のM1関根です。
続いては、2024年度のゼミの活動目標とゼミプレゼミについてお話ししたいと思います!
2024年度の活動目標
 今年度は、「決定的なパラダイムシフト」(=Great Bricolage)を起こした「事物の転用」事例を調査します。人間による構築活動を「地球上に存在する物質の移動と組み合わせ」と定義すると、歴史上の科学/技術発明(=解築的発見)は以前より存在した物質の抜本的転用と考えることができます。昨年度は抽象的な「循環構造」を歴史事例から取り出すことを目標としました。今年度はより具体的な物質の発見や構成法の発明に注目し、過去の人間活動を「解築の歴史」と捉え直すことを目指します。
解築学プレゼミ
解築学プレゼミでは、解築学が直面する現状について、��連する書籍や動画資料を持ち寄り、ゼミ員で議論を行いました。
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↑持ち寄ったリファレンス。左からフィリピンのゴミ山、ジャカルタのスラム。
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↑議論中の風景
・今年度のリサーチテーマの決定
今年度、具体的に扱う対象を決定しました。
今年度は、「鉄筋コンクリート」技術を対象とします!鉄筋コンクリートは、いくつものパラダイムシフト(=発明)が起こった材料であると考えています。園芸技術として発明されたモルタルと鉄網を複合する技術(=鉄筋コンクリート)は、建築へと転用され、現在に至ります。
今年度も盛り上がってまいります!
随時更新いたしますので、ぜひご覧ください!
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weirdcharacter · 1 year ago
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List of stuff to do before october arrives:
finish writing The Myth of König
(Possibly) edit The Myth of König
send the story to friends
Work on Sacrificed (format of the story)
Work on sacrificed (plot)
Do hw of course
Keep up with classes of course
go back to my grandma's house to get some bricolage material
make a lil guy out of papier maché and take it as my first steps in manual arts/ miniatures
think about my chrishmas list
prepare for Nanowrimo
socialize (if i got some energy and time left for that lmaoo)
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1tsstargaze59 · 6 months ago
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Here's my next two emotions, Ennui and Sadness! I'm not working on them in any particular order, just random xD
I decided to reveal some HCs as I reveal their references ^^ Gonna do Anxiety and Fear again in this post since I didn't get to last time oop-
In honor of Ennui, I'm gonna write in French and translate ^^ (I'm French Canadian in nationality so I speak 3 languages B)
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• Parle Français exclusivement! - Speaks french exclusively.
• Elle peux aussi parler l'anglais, mais elle choisit de ne pas le faire, sauf pour les anglicismes. - She can speak English as well, but chooses not to, only for slang.
• Grande rêveuse~ -  Daydreamer~
• Lunaire. - Moonchild.
• Elle est la petite soeur de Peur. - Fear's little sister.
• Elle aime décorée ses affaires, faire du bricolage, écouter de la musique et regarder des émissions de télé, mais elle est ben trop parresseuse, donc elle attend que ses copains faissent ses activités avec elle. - Likes decorating things, crafts, games, music and watching shows, but is faaaaar~ too lazy, will wait for her friends to do it with her.
• ✨️~Esthétique~✨️ (won't translate that one XD)
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• "Lead" emotion.
• Nicknamed Dee by the other emotions.
• Bestie with Anxiety.
• Likes bubbles and baths (separately, but best together!)
• Loves to give hugs when things get sad, which is often XD
• Total sweetheart with a gritty past qvq
• Crush on Embarrassment and shows lots of PDA.
Now for these two idiots! /pos TW for Anxiety x Fear if you aren't into that-
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Anxiety :
• Always has extra stationary on her.
• Friendly Rivalry with Joy.
• Besties with Sadness, actually she's second lead emotion!
• Cannot take hinds to safe her life XD (Fear be flirting with a brick wall I swear-)
• Loves Tea and energy drinks.
• Has a "conspiracy" board she keeps her intrusive thoughts on.
• Bi icon 🧡... bi-con 🤔
Fear :
• Nerd vibes.
• Has suspenders under his sweater vest.
• Finds comfort in physical touch and big clothes.
• Jumpscared every easily, but he's good at his job, I avoid things ik will scare me like the plague lmao
• HUGE crush on Anxiety, which he's nervous about, but isn't subtle about.
• Siblings with Ennui.
• Also Bi! 💜
That's all! ^^ Have a great day!
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fatehbaz · 1 year ago
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The link between warfare and technological innovation has been well documented [...]. World War II was a particularly intense crucible of technological change, and the repurposing of military technologies and industries in the forging of a new post-war consumer [economy] is crucial [...]. Processes of technological bricolage turned the machines of war onto the natural world as global powers competed to cement their economic and imperial hegemony. In Great Britain’s post-war “groundnut scheme�� in its East African territories (1946-51), this collision of nature, military hardware, and technical expertise was part of efforts to both produce more fats for the British diet and to demonstrate to the world (most importantly the United States) that, through a newly energized science-led developmentalism, British colonialism still had a “progressive” role to play in the postwar world.
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The aim was to produce millions of tons of peanuts across Tanganyika using the latest methods of advanced scientific agriculture. The environmental conditions in the north, where the scheme was to begin, were known to be especially trying, not least the dry climate [...]. But faith in the power of mechanized agriculture was such that any natural limits were thought to be readily surmountable.
The groundnut scheme was to be, as its Director put it in an interview with the Tanganyika Standard, a “war” with nature, and an “economic Battle of Alamein” waged over some three million acres by an army of colonial technicians - many recruited from military ranks - and local laborers, for many of whom the scheme represented their first entry into the wage labor market.
But it wasn’t just the rhetoric of war that was repurposed.
Lancaster bombers were kitted out to survey and discover “new country” in East Africa for agricultural development. [...] [T]ractors and bulldozers from military surplus stores in Egypt proved unable to tackle the hard ground and tough vegetation, so the planners turned to a novel solution: repurposing surplus Sherman M4A2 tanks. The Vickers-Armstrong factory in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne set about rearranging key elements of the tanks’ construction [...]. The tractors, christened “Shervicks” for their hybrid origins, were [...] thought to be particularly suited to large-scale earth-moving and to the kind of heavy duty “bush clearing” that was required in Tanganyika.
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Officials sought to dismiss concerns that large-scale bush clearing would have wider environmental consequences, using the well-worn colonial trope that any observed changes in local climate or erosion patterns were due to the “primitive” agricultural practices of the locals, not to the earth-moving practices of the colonists.  [...] As the plants continued to wilt in the sun, [...] [t]he stakes were high. As [J.R.] of the Colonial Development Corporation put it in a letter: “Our standing as an Imperial power in Africa is to a substantial extent bound up with the future of this scheme. To abandon it would be a humiliating blow to our prestige everywhere.” The only option left was to try and bend the weather itself to the scheme’s will, by seeding the clouds for rain. [...] “Balloon bombs” (photographic film canisters tethered to weather balloons) and a repurposed Royal Navy flare gun were used to target individual clouds [...]. The scheme itself has survived as a cautionary tale of governmental hubris, but it is instructive too as a case study of how technologies of war have been turned against other foes.
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All text above by: Martin Mahony. “The Enemy is Nature: Military Machines and Technological Bricolage in Britain’s ‘Great Agricultural Experiment.’“ Environment and Society Portal, Arcadia (Spring 2021), no. 11. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. doi:10.5282/rcc/9191. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Images and their captions are shown unaltered as they originally appear in Mahony's article. Public Domain Mark 1.0 License for images: creativecommons dot org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/]
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bandcampsnoop · 8 months ago
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6/26/24.
Slumberland Records. They've been on another roll (when aren't they on a roll) with new releases coming from Birdie (great band with members from Dolly Mixture and East Village) and Chime School. I'm still sifting through the lightheaded, Neutrals and Lunchbox bundle I just received. Now, I've run across some of their older releases on amazing markdown (Bricolage, Summer Cats and Sarandon).
Sarandon (London) was active during the early 2000s and have a sound reminiscent of The Fall and Wire while still retaining pop sensibilities of bands like Josef K. I can't imagine that Allan McNaughton (Giant Haystacks and the aforementioned Neutrals) didn't enjoy Sarandon's output.
This 10" is aptly named "Kill Twee Pop!" I can confidently say after listening to a couple of Sarandon's releases, that this is a sincere sentiment.
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victoriajamessl · 2 years ago
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The Beach House Porch
Featuring Bricolage Second Life is another year older and that means it is time for the SL20B Shop & Hop Event. Bricolage is participating with a bunch of great summer furniture and decor all on sale at great prices during the celebration. In addition to the sale items you can grab this Patio Chair which is a free gift. It has male and female sit animations and the pillow is texture change.…
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anosci · 2 years ago
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(91-105 albums etc that I’ve listened to this year, copied from twitter) (now with art. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8])
names and thoughts below cut
91/ KNOWER - Think Thoughts (2011) peppy! bright and loud! well ok that might not be true for every track, but like. slapping those fakebrass chords feels great. shining characteristic.
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92/ Photek - Avalanche / 101 (2011) (i have decided to be extra harsh on dnb) …oh its not dnb. actually this is a case where each track is stronger than the last. i didnt rly care for "Avalanche" but "Slowburn" is hitting HARD.
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93/ Photek - Aviator EP (2011) i guess ive missed a few chapters of photek because this aint dnb. to my ears its hella 2011 but thats not inherently bad. overall i just think this one's ok. it kinda looks like a companion to Avalanche/101, and...sorry but i love that one far more
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94/ Kryptic Minds - Can't Sleep (2011) dark! id call it ukdubstep but it clearly isnt. peak nighttime music tho. good shit
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95/ Floating Points - Shadows (2011) the above is possibly the most apt word cloud for the sound of the ep. gentle punch. sleepy even. exactly the level of chillout i need.
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96/ Joseph Nothing Orchestra - Super Earth (2011) joseph nothing has a melodic style that sits just right with me, coupled with a really playful ear for sound design. im happy to see it still hits just as hard a decade after his debut
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97/ Secret Mommy - The Mall (2011) exactly what i remember 2011 sounding like. clicky choppy something. i feel like i enjoy this nostalgically now, instead of directly. like a layer of abstraction. kinda odd to realize.
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98/ Towa Tei - Sunny (2011) this feels like that soulful type of uh… what do you call shakatak? that thing. but towa tei. really poppy sometimes. generally all over the place. i'd describe it as "peak sunshine music" which is funny because the album title agrees
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99/ VA - Attaxolotls: Amphibious Fisticuffs Anthology Album (2023) a grab bag of styles and vibes. plenty of slappers. 2 specific hilites that make me want to type exclamation marks: "Arcadia Prime" "Minor Infraction"
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100/ Ryuichi Sakamoto - CHASM (2004) a beautiful album that simultaneously embraces intimate acoustics and some of the dsp trends that ive noticed in 2004. a touch of oval, even? it's a really lovely take. im not a huge fan of the vocals but that's entirely personal preference.
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101/ Ryuichi Sakamoto - Bricolages (2006) remix comp version of CHASM. surprised at how each song has a similar essence, but i unanimously prefer ryuichi's take on the tunes with rapping. that aside, i love how unabashedly ELECTRONIC this feels.
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102/ Asking Alexandria - Stepped Up And Scratched (2011) vocals :\ wobs :) yeah idk im just not vibing with the metal side. the wob side is fun as a nostalgic romp but even then... eh. HOWEVER: "To The Stage (Bare)".
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103/ nagz - Good (2020) the album lives up to its name. future music that you just don't get anywhere else. for me this feels like a sequel to hringur, in that I think that was the last EP to make me feel like this.
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104/ Nondi_ - Flood City Trax (2023) incredibly shocked at how well this fits after nagz, at least in timbre. future sounds. alternatively: it embodies the "for vibin" attitude that early 90s warp/rephlex had, but applies it to modern styles. im into it.
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105/ Selfmademusic - Kinema Ikon Soundtracks Remixed (2008) shimmering, lingering electric soundscapes. hazy, but specifically the warm summer haze that you see on urban roads.
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renovationnyc-blog · 9 days ago
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Top New York City Home Improvement Companies: Transforming Your NYC Living Space
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New York City is a bustling metropolis, with homes ranging from classic brownstones to sleek modern apartments. Whether you're living in a pre-war building, a newly constructed high-rise, or a charming townhouse, home improvement projects can significantly enhance the comfort, style, and value of your property. If you're looking to improve your home in the Big Apple, selecting a reputable and experienced home improvement company is key. Here’s a guide to some of the best home improvement companies in New York City, known for their quality work, creativity, and reliability.
Characteristics of a Great NYC Home Improvement Company
Expertise in NYC’s Unique Architecture: New York City homes are diverse, with each neighborhood offering distinct architectural styles. The best home improvement companies in NYC understand the intricacies of working with various building types, whether it’s renovating a historic brownstone or modernizing an apartment in a skyscraper.
Familiarity with Local Codes and Regulations: NYC has a complex set of building codes, zoning laws, and permit requirements. Top home improvement companies in the city are well-versed in these regulations and ensure all work complies with the latest safety and legal standards.
Space Optimization: Space is at a premium in New York City, making it essential for home improvement companies to be skilled in maximizing smaller spaces. Companies that specialize in small apartment renovations, loft conversions, and creative design solutions can make a significant impact on how a space functions.
Customer-Centered Approach: Given the competitive real estate market in New York, homeowners want personalized, high-quality service. The best companies take the time to understand your needs, whether you're upgrading your kitchen, renovating a bathroom, or completely remodeling your home.
Reliable and Skilled Workforce: NYC home improvement companies often have an extensive network of skilled tradespeople—contractors, designers, electricians, carpenters, and more. A great company employs only experienced professionals who can execute projects with precision and quality craftsmanship.
Leading Home Improvement Companies in New York City
Rainey Contracting Known for its luxury residential renovations, Rainey Contracting has earned a strong reputation for delivering high-end, customized projects. Whether it’s a full home renovation, kitchen upgrade, or custom cabinetry, Rainey Contracting is known for its attention to detail and commitment to quality.
Bricolage Design and Build Bricolage Design and Build is a full-service design-build company that serves NYC. From initial design concepts to the final touches, they specialize in turning spaces into functional, beautiful environments. Their expertise in both renovation and construction makes them a great choice for clients looking for cohesive, full-scale projects.
LUX Renovations LUX Renovations focuses on luxury home improvement projects, particularly in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Specializing in everything from bathroom and kitchen renovations to full apartment and townhouse remodels, LUX Renovations combines high-end finishes with innovative designs. They have a deep understanding of NYC’s unique architectural styles, offering solutions that are both stylish and functional.
Bergman Design Associates Specializing in kitchen and bath design, Bergman Design Associates is known for its attention to detail and bespoke renovation services. Their team works closely with clients to design custom spaces that reflect their personality while maximizing the functionality of the room.
Borough Builders Borough Builders is a premier construction and renovation company that has built a solid reputation in New York City. They specialize in home renovations, commercial projects, and specialty construction work. Their expertise includes high-end, luxury projects as well as smaller, more affordable renovations for New Yorkers looking to enhance their living spaces.
Griffin Construction Group Griffin Construction Group is a full-service general contractor with a focus on high-end residential renovations and construction. They are known for their ability to tackle complex projects with sophisticated designs, whether it’s gut renovations, custom millwork, or creative modernizations for NYC apartments and homes.
Greenwich Construction Greenwich Construction has been serving the NYC area for decades, offering a wide range of services from simple renovations to full-scale construction projects. They work with homeowners, designers, and architects to create spaces that reflect the unique needs and styles of New Yorkers.
New York Renovation Specializing in small-to-medium projects, New York Renovation offers a hands-on, personalized approach to home improvement. Their services range from painting and flooring to full kitchen remodels and structural improvements. They pride themselves on being efficient, budget-friendly, and highly responsive to client needs.
Key Home Improvement Services in NYC
Apartment Renovations: Many NYC residents live in apartments with small spaces, and renovation companies that understand how to optimize these spaces are essential. From reconfiguring layouts to installing space-saving features, the right company can make your apartment feel like a more functional and spacious home.
Kitchen and Bathroom Remodeling: Two of the most popular areas for improvement in NYC homes are the kitchen and bathroom. Whether you’re installing custom cabinetry, high-end appliances, or modern fixtures, these renovations can transform the heart of your home into a more enjoyable and functional space.
Smart Home Integration: With technology playing a significant role in modern living, many NYC homeowners are incorporating smart home devices into their renovations. Companies that specialize in smart home installations can help integrate automation systems, security features, and energy-efficient technologies into your renovation plans.
Loft Conversions and Extensions: In many parts of New York City, loft-style apartments and penthouses are common. If you want to convert an underused space into something more functional—whether it’s a guest suite, home office, or additional living area—a home improvement company can provide the necessary expertise for transforming a loft into a stylish, usable room.
Restoration of Historic Homes: New York City is full of historic homes and brownstones that require careful restoration. Some companies specialize in preserving the character of these iconic homes while incorporating modern elements that improve their functionality and livability.
Why Choose a NYC-Based Home Improvement Company?
Local Knowledge: Local companies understand the specific challenges and regulations of working in New York City. They are familiar with the city’s unique architectural styles and know how to navigate building codes, zoning laws, and permits efficiently.
Established Reputation: Many of the top home improvement companies in NYC have long-standing relationships with homeowners and building managers. Their experience in the local market means they have the knowledge to handle even the most complex and unique projects.
Tailored Solutions for NYC Homes: NYC homes can present unique challenges, including small spaces, outdated infrastructure, and historical restrictions. A local home improvement company will have a deep understanding of these issues and will be able to provide customized solutions that meet your needs.
Conclusion When looking for a home improvement company in New York City, it’s essential to choose a team with the expertise, experience, and creativity to handle the specific demands of city living. Whether you're renovating a historic brownstone, updating a modern apartment, or undertaking a large-scale home improvement project, the right company can help you maximize the potential of your space. By selecting a reputable NYC-based home improvement company, you can ensure that your project is in the hands of skilled professionals who will transform your home into the space you've always dreamed of.
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puutterings · 3 months ago
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What intrudes is my passion for bricolage, puttering at the multiple pretexts
  I have been trying to get down to work. It is extremely difficult, even though I’ve taken leave from the office this week. What intrudes is my passion for bricolage, puttering at the multiple material and even mechanical problems which are involved in living here, this winter.   ₅₃
Yet, when I hear a tap dripping, I make a dash for my pliers and my monkey wrench. P. W. Strauss, the complete plumber! The fact is that the seeking and haggling and fixing interest me — quite independently of the eggs and butter and the silence of the tap. I have a compulsion to putter.       Why? Of all Americans, I am surely one of the most committed to what Hegel calls the “nonserious existence.” Then how can I spend hours installing stoves and fixing faucets?       First, of course, because bricolage adjourns the real problem. It is a pretext for putting off the struggle.       But also because my life, everyone’s life, is so charged with frustration. War, collapse, constant crisis — all this muck we live in and no way out. The problems that matter most are insoluble. How soothing, therefore, to enclose a small area of experience and control it perfectly! The tap drips? Well see to that! We putter with the tap, and it no longer drips. What a vindication of the will and the intelligence of man!       So, after all these years, I come to the conclusion that the overall function of puttering in my life is merely a variant of the desperate hunt which is always going on at home — for pretexts to avoid certain fundamental questions; to avoid assuming one’s death, for example.       In America, people spend a fantastic percentage of their time in bricolage, from fixing taps to “earning their living.”   ₅₄
This interests me. There is something about unconsciousness which challenges my instinct for puttering...   ₉₈
— a long reminiscence follows, of Tarski and Marie before the war, of their “most brilliant and germinal salon,” that “extraordinary apartment always in the process of growth and change” —
...and they always seemed to be saying: Very well, then, God is dead. An infinity of choice lies before us. What are we going to do?   ₁₀₀
I, on the other hand, was waiting for Mireille, for the apartment upstairs, for Tony’s story (the bare facts of which he had already blurted out) and, please excuse my insistence, for my death.       I am an old man. I have learned how to wait.       She thanked me profusely and then, as I turned to go, gave me (with a perfidious air of commiseration) the disastrous news. Under the weight of this blow, I staggered upstairs to the mezzanine. Mireille was puttering around the kitchen, rearranging pots, pans and crockery, and taking inventory for dinner.   ₁₂₇
A great deal “going on,” but I’ve been swallowed up in my puttering and my serious life. Office becoming so exigent that I think of throwing it all up, provided Style can support me.   ₁₉₅
The letters, I suspect, are trash, and I have puttering enough to do. . . . Over all this, there is an already pervasive smell of boredom. I sit at my Empire desk and wonder: wherever shall I begin?   ₂₃₅
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all from H. J. Kaplan, The Plenipotentiaries (1950) via archive.org : link
more on Kaplan, and this book (and with yet more to come) at 495  
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fabiansteinhauer · 5 months ago
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O idioma do curso deve ser o inglês. Todos os outros idiomas são bem-vindos se acompanhados de uma tradução para o inglês.
História e Teoria de uma lei inconstante e polar
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For three hours each of the first three sessions of the lecture (course), I will present what
basic research can be at an institute dedicated to legal history and legal theory, what
impulses for such basic research can come from the work of our colleague Cornelia Vismann, and what
Aby Warburg can provide in terms of methodological and conceptual suggestions for such research.
The first part serves to introduce our institute and its international co-operations (especially with research and teaching in Brazil). There are three departments at the Institute, all of which will be presented, but I will focus on the legal theory department headed by Marietta Auer, in which I myself work with a focus on images, legal science and on juridical cultural techniques. My work takes place in the context of a project entitled Theoriemosaik (Theory Mosaic), which brings together research characterised by an interest in bricolage, aesthetics and historicity.
With "theory mosaic", Marietta Auer takes up ideas from 20th century anthropology, namely the concept of bricolage, which Lévi-Strauss developed in 1962 in his book on wild thinking as part of a branching critique of the dogma of the great separation. In the relevant passages of the book, a clear scepticism emerges towards this idea, which should not be ascribed to the idea of progress (because then they are immediately finished), but rather to a discourse of multiplication, which is more difficult to deal with and which goes hand in hand with the idea of gaining distance, increasing distance, increasing difference or such a taking of distance, which resembles a land grab because it is supposed to go hand in hand with established or evolutionary achievements and, like whitecaps, carries the phrase that one can no longer go back behind certain achievements, that other things (such as art, the state, law, menkind, decorum, similarity, modernity, myth) have come to their end and have been dead and nothing but dead ever since.
Luhmann's Recht der Gesellschaft, with these assumptions that are difficult to handle, leads, according to a preliminary thesis, to the melancholy of the final passages of his book from 1993. One can come to other conclusions, of course, because melancholy is also capricious and polar. Let's take a look, exactly in the time and space where we encounter the tropical creatures and thus associable beings who have long since left their apocalypse behind them.
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The anthropologist doubts that the ideas of increasing complexity can be a meaningful research programme. The beginning of Lévi-Strauss' book from 1962 can be read as an objection to the social theory whose stages lead via Durkheim or Weber to Luhmann's idea of increasing complexity and fragmentation. The objection cannot refute anything. It can provide a different perspective in order to give an outlet to obviously pressing questions - all questions that are not fuelled by the assumption that we should be (in) society, but by what it should mean to reproduce people and what it should mean when people reproduce not only human beings, but everything possible (not an unknown question for lawyers who have something to say about everything). Or: how is that supposed to work at all? How are humans supposed to fabricate humans and all sorts of things besides humans?
If there is rampant complexity, then in all directions, i.e. into the centre of the cities and out into the forest and there again into the plant broth from the liana Banisteriopsis caapi, then also towards 2035 AD and towards 2035 BC, then into society and out of society again.
Has it been too long since I read the passages, has my memory distorted something? I remember that the author, who is of limited reliability for a report on Recife (because, although not as strong as Flusser with his 'Prague-Etui' gaze, he lets the snobbish gaze of someone spoilt by Paris dictate the beginning of his journey), has a reliable sense of cosmology, which is as rampant in the small as in the large - and that he does not deny the idea of a great separation in this respect, but is not content with it - and above all does not turn such an idea into a dogma or research programme, for example along the lines of cultural and legal scholars who look for the reasons for the take-off of a society and then consider how they can secure the lead or maintain the achievements.
In my opinion, the anthropological doctrine can be reduced to a simple denominator: Everything that occurs here also occurs there, just in different sequences. In other words: in other sequences of separations, associations and exchange manoeuvres. The concept of bricolage describes the agile, but never indeterminate, but always as changeable as the sharp action that the anthropologist does not simply observe, but which is part of the recursiveness of his operations.
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Marietta Auer chooses the term bricolage in the context of the project 'theory mosaic' to emphasise, among other things, that one can, and perhaps even must, think wildly in basic research. Basic research also means dealing with it: You keep on pushing my law over the borderline.
The concept of bricolage has continued and has been translated. I think that something leads from it to de Castro's cannibal metaphysics, for example. We will hopefully be able to investigate what that might be in the course. The anthropologist has not invented anything: The concept of bricolage is preceded by something, for example Warburg's ‘Gestellschieberei', which he also compares to ant trails, we can hopefully pursue that too.
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jamesgraybooksellerworld · 7 months ago
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Crashaw, Little Gidding, T.S. Eliot, Herbert
“Crashaw is quite alone in his peculiar kind of greatness.” —T. S. Eliot If you came this way,Taking any route, starting from anywhere,At any time or at any season,It would always be the same: you would have to put offSense and notion. While deep in the bricolage stage of his final Quartet: Little Gidding, T.S. Eliot’s journeys to Little Gidding And says that he plans to “shed a few tears over…
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nakatani-seminar · 8 months ago
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【解築学ゼミ】2023年度活動報告
はじめまして!2023年後期から中谷研究室の解築学ゼミでゼミ長を努めております、M1関根です!
解築学ゼミの前回の投稿は2023年の5月で止まっており、長らく更新できておりませんでした。今回は改めて解築学ゼミの活動目的と、2023年度の解築学ゼミの成果についてご紹介したいと思います!
設立経緯と活動目的
まずは解築学ゼミの設立経緯と活動目的についてです。
本ゼミでは「解築」という、建築に代わる新たな概念を掲げ、活動しています。これまでの建築は文字通り「建て・築く」ことに集中していました。しかしただ闇雲に建築を続けていけば、建て詰まりとでもいうべき都市の終点を迎えます。そんな中、現在の日本の中心的都市では建築を続けるために、役割を終えた既存建物の解体が頻発しています。
しかしその解体から始まる一連の建築行為には、物質が人間と地球の関係の中でどこから移動してきて、どのように循環していくのかという世界の具体的なイメージが伴っていません。つまり、建築を物質循環の過程として正しく「解いて」、正しく「築く」、そのサイクルを実現する方法や考え方が新たに構築される必要があります。
これを歴史的視点から検討するのが解築学ゼミです。保存/スクラップ&ビルドの二者択一ではなく、柔軟な空間構築法の理論化を目標とします。
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2023 年度の解築学ゼミは「都市流動史」という���ーマを掲げ、歴史上の解築的な行為が発生した事例とその社会背景に着目しました。具体的には災害からの復興過程やバラック、スラムにおける生活の構築、廃墟の美学などを対象とし、それらに共通する普遍的な循環構造を取り出すことを目標としました。
2023年度活動成果
成果としては卒業論文5本、修士論文1本が提出されたほか、人間によって構築された物質が自然との関わりの中でどのように様態を変化させるのかを示したダイアグラムを作成しました。人間の空間構築行為にはその最初の段階から自然活動が強く影響しており、両者は不可分なものです。我々が解築と考える行為、現象は、何らかの形で地球の自律運動、すなわち自然摂理と交わった人間行為なのではないかと結論づけました。
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最後になりますが、今回紹介した、2023年度の活動内容は『解築学研究 vol.1』として発行しております!こちらでは勉強会の内容やダイアグラムの解説などをより詳細に行っておりますので、ぜひともご確認ください!
▼『解築学Zine Vol.1』
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それでは。
また更新します!
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azirelll · 1 year ago
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Hospitality pt. 4 (Story i had no title but now i have it)
"Oh, and also here are the keys, I nearly lost them when I went shopping for groceries" she said while closing the black door of the apartment. For the first time I saw her in something other than an oversized shirt and sweatpants. She was wearing some baggy jeans, a tank top from a rock band I never heard of and my adidas jacket she stole from me because she said it looked comfortable, we almost fought for who would get it. We got out of the apartment complex, the weather was calm and warm like every summer night. The neighborhood was amazing at night, the lights of the houses and streetlights made it look like something out of cyberpunk, or Silent Hill without the Fog. The scenery was great but there was nothing open or interesting. There were the stores nearby like a PC-parts store or a bricolage one, I don't know why I needed to tell this, maybe it's because I'm really bored just like her. "Hey, look at that dark alley" she said with a bored, neutral tone "doesn't that look creepy". I needed a second before noticing that since I was so focused on the music we were listening to while walking, "That looks pretty creepy" I responded. She looked at me, grinned and said: "Want to explore this alley, life is only one after all" "Sure, sure" I respond in my still bored and tired tone. We go into the alley, nothing special happens, the dark alley was one of the streets that connects all the small private gardens. Everything is dark, except for one small garden where I could hear people talking and quiet Italian music playing. As we walk nearby, I can hear the talking more clearly but couldn't quite understand since it was like a gibberish, Italian gibberish. We heard shouting "Ue, do you want a beer?", at first, I didn't think they meant us, but Sally quickly hit my elbow stopping me before declining the offer they made. "Sure, we are coming !!" Sally shouted back with this excited tone. A 40 year old looking guy opened us, he had an angry look, I have the feeling that he is drunk but he has it under full control, very interesting. "Come here, come here, we don't bite after all" another guy said in Italian with this Campanian accent and happy voice. The garden looked beautiful with the lights on, there were some crops here and there, a small place with grass and two greenhouses, a regular one and another made for the let the tomatoes grow. "What do you want" asked to us the first guy, "I have: Corona, Feldschlosschen, Inchiusa..." "I don't mind" I responded. Sally asked for a Corona. The Italian guy asked us what we were doing here this late in his so happy tone, he was shirtless before we came, he quickly put on his shirt when he saw Sally. We said that we were new here and just went for a walk to see the surroundings and that they were pretty boring except for some stores here and there.
"My name is Antonio by the way, BUT you can call me Toto"
Salva: "Oh like Toto De Curtis, the comedian"
Toto: "Yes yes, exactly like him. How do you know him?"
Salva: "Well my father likes to watch old Italian movies like Fantozzi and such and I often watched together with him."
Toto: "You are Italian?" his expression then was curious.
Salva: "Yeah, I am, my name is Salvatore Pontillo, nice to meet you I guess"
Toto: "Pontillo you say?" his expression becomes surprised "Like that Spy or hacker?"
Salva: "\*sigh\* yes my uncle is Angelo Pontillo, it's hard to live with the fact that now people that know are scared of me, especially since I work in the same industry as that thing"
Toto: "Oh no no no, don't worry cumpà, I can fully understand since I am in the Malavita too" he quickly becomes happy again "and I'm not the only one, Cirillo and his son are with me" he slowly turns his head towards Sally and says: "I'm sure you and him would go perfectly together, he is mature and loves animals".
He told us about their "Adventures" while he was still drinking non-stop from his bottle, at one point I thought it was empty and was just sipping it out of muscle memory. They saved a wedding by killing a hitman before he could kill the bosses daughter, did multiple bank heists with the help of my uncle that was like a net runner from cyberpunk with giving them information and disabling cameras, here it was finally clear how he could have afforded his villa at the coast of the sea. One of the most interesting he told us was how they killed someone and then after the mission ended, they took him apart and sold his belongings and organs in the black market and split the money between them. Sally was really fascinated by this and she asked so many questions about this specifically like: How much did they make ?, where did they sell them ?, in the end we exchanged out phone numbers and said we were always welcome here and just to call him if we need something, true Italian spirit what can I say.
In the end Cirillo said: "Enough, he clearly lost his mind, I think you should go, it's getting too late", his voice was deep, he didn't sound angry or annoyed just neutral but with authority. "Alright, till somewhen I guess" said Sally with this still friendly and happy tone. Toto raised his hand to tell us goodbye while he was laying in his chair. Cirillo wanted to take us home, he was concerned that something might happen to us on the way home. "But its 20 minutes away from here, are you sure you want that and what about your son?" I said to him while waiting for him outside the garden. He responded: "My son is safe, at home, sleeping, but you aren't, and I don't trust these surroundings at these hours". That was very sweet if him. While we were walking back home Sally texted me on WhatsApp with just the text "I'd smash, spank my ass, break me, he looks like a mix of a Greek and Norse god" with bunch of those heart eyes emojis. Damn it she was in heat at that moment, her smile was unique I that moment.
"Stay away from that Pub" Cirillo said while pointing to the backdoor of that Pub "The Russian Mafia isn't as forgiving as the Italian". Suddenly we heard a troubled noise from there, the noise of people arguing and wall slamming getting louder. Cirillo laid his hand on his baton holster ready for something to happen. The door opened, someone fell out, he looked disoriented and dirty from the fall, he had short hair and wore a Sabaton T-shirt, a long trench coat like the ones they wore in the First World War and shorts. Someone said with a Ukrainian accent: "Next time I will break your fucking knees", the voice was coming from the same door that poor guy fell out. He slowly stood up, wiped the dirt from his clothes and slowly walked towards us. I could tell that he was a friendly person from his expression and how relaxed he walked to us. "Cirillo, what are you doing here at this time? and who are those little guys" He asked to Cirillo, with a southern US accent. Cirillo replied: "They are friends, and they know about the crime life". "I see, I see" he paused a moment before continuing "Call me Payton, I just sell those guy weapons and all kind of crazy stuff, the definition of dark web personally, since I'm the only one in the region to have fully anonymous access to it." My Eyes sparked and I cheerfully asked him: "So you managed to bypass multiple layers of the best security in Europe?" He responded: "Yes, you know your way with those stuff dude" "It's my field of study after all, or it was, I still do it in the free time I just do it happier now since I don't have all the pressure." I responded back, he nodded as form of understanding. Payton joined us, since he was heading home too after what happened, I asked him if he needed help, but he said he's fine. Sally was talking about journaling with Cirillo, it helps them both to meditate and have their emotions under control. We chatted a lot on the way home about how the neighborhood is and the people around here. They told us about the current problem with mafia in the area and how it got the attention of the government just now since it got way too serious.
We came home, tired, it was 3am. Sally and I noticed families just coming back from holidays, possibly from Italy like I used to. Cirillo left us both at our apartment complex and told us goodbye and stay safe, the usual stuff. Payton stayed "Aren't you going with him?" I asked him kindly, he walks inside, opens the door with his keys and walks to the elevator before he says: "Guys, I literally live above you, bye see you somewhere" the elevator doors closed. We took out our keys, opened our door and walked inside, while we did this it was strangely quiet, way too quiet. Because we were really tired, we didn't do anything else, just wore more comfortable clothes and lay in bed.
The sleep I got felt like a minute, but more hours passed since I woke up full of energy which is kind of strange since I fucked my sleep schedule yesterday, the only "downside" was that I woke up on 12am. Sally was still sleeping this time really. Since she left me some brownies yesterday, I was thinking about repaying the favor by making some scrambled eggs for her too this morning for breakfast. I closed the door before cooking, so the smell or noise goes into the Bedroom and beginning to cook. Before cooking I turned on the TV and started Spotify and put it on my chill playlist. She woke up, she didn't tell me anything, just looked at me weirdly and said: "You have a lot to explain to me". I was stirring the eggs while she said that, I had the feeling that I did something bad but at the same time not because I didn't do anything at all, after a few seconds I say: "What do I need to explain ?", she said in a semi-angry tone: "Like how I knew the nephew of one of the hackers of the Camorra, for 3 months, and that he himself was a hacker." While still stirring the eggs, my hand was shaking: "Exactly I was a hacker, means I stopped doing it" I responded. "I'm not mad, just shocked and surprised to know, I kept myself distracted from it by talking to Cirillo, but anyways that's cool". She took a sip from her coffee she made while we were talking: "So, why did you stop with that?". I explained her: "I stopped because of my girlfriend, and I just started because I was bored during quarantine and wanted to learn something new" "That's... cool..." she responded back, I knew she was still tired so she couldn't really still process what I said. Suddenly she hinted: "So if I was about to commit a murder, you wouldn't call the cops, would you?". This question was very random and weird, a part of me thought she was joking but another was saying that she was about to do that, after all she looked like she would do that. I replied: "No I don't think so, I think I would even help you hide the body" after a moment she sat on the couch and turned off the music I added: "You don't really mean it do you, you wouldn't kill me right just to sell me on the black market then ?" she replied with a tired tone: "of course I'm not killing you, why do you think that ?" "No nothing just asking".
Sometime flew from that conversation that morning, we were for our own things. Sally was revising her notes in the office, she said she wanted to go to school again and study something like biology of chemistry. The office looked pretty professional and big, another desk and a chair would fit just fine. I also noticed some extra ethernet and phone outlets, probably this room had servers in it, or someone had fun. I laid in bed for some time before I realized I still had some paper to fill out about moving here. I also reminded Sally of it she said she is going to do her papers after she finished revising, even though she is revising she seems relaxed and worriless now.
I needed an hour before I finished doing those. On groceries we are good, on furniture also and the papers are filled I just need to bring these on to the post office and send them. "Crazy that we got everything done in just a few days" Sally chirped. I responded: "Don't be too happy now, I'm sure there are still a lot more papers to fill out that are coming" her expression quickly changed from happy and relieved to frustrated. "But look, at least we are not getting everything at once." I added to lighten up the mood a bit.
It was night time. No, nothing special happened this time I didn't tell anything about my day, I just went to the post office, sent some papers and came back. Long story short: it was a pretty boring day, but I will never forget the conversation I had with Sally and the people we met yesterday. I was lying in bed about to sleep, Sally was also with me reading a manga. There I asked her: "Did you really mean that this morning? about murder?" She looked at me with her eyes wide open like she thought I would forget about it, but luckily, I didn't. She said perplexed: "I did really mean it, Toto's story gave me an idea for a plan B if things would get through but it will be over once we have the money I promise" "I'm not mad or shocked, just curious" I said "We can say, my intrusive thoughts need to me satiated". I couldn't quite recognize the expression on her face, it was a mix between happiness and surprise. She gushed and said: "Thank you for being like me", I took that to heart, I never heard that. I lay my phone on the wireless charger on the night table like I do every night and say: "Good night".
OMFG i finally found the title. I FOUND THE TITLE I FOUND THE TITLE I FOUND THE TITLE
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that-banhus · 2 years ago
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#PLEASE tell me about the 7th century poetry I would LOVE the characters to make out about references
THANK YOU @fancy-rock-dove​ you’re the best and I’m delighted you asked.
I added a read-more for everyone’s eyeballs’ sake. 
SO, Caedmon’s Hymn is a snippet of poetry in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica, an 8th c. history of the British Isles. This bit is debateable, because Bede (a monk at Wearmouth-Jarrow in Northern England) offers a translation of the poem into Latin, but not the original Old English, and the interlinear glosses we have for the poem in Old English are in later manuscripts, but nominally Caedmon is exceptional for being the first named poet we have in the English language.
I say poet, though that’s actually a fairly loaded term. Caedmon gets SUPER popular in the Victorian era, when translations of Old English poetry really get going, and England’s feeling very anxious over its lack of a national epic to hold up next to the Aenid, or the Divine Comedy, or any of those Italian classics they’re moving away from as a nation because Rome is passé. People are making arguments that Caedmon, who is old enough to be respectable, actually inspired Chaucer (no), invented iambic pentameter (very no), and served as a basis for Milton’s Paradise Lost (no, but more complicated - Milton may have been inspired by some of the Old English poems in the Junius manuscript of Old English biblical poems, erroneously ascribed to Caedmon at the time.)
Anyway, all the poets bopping about trying to project English poetry back to the 8th c. refer to him as a poet in order to distance him from Bede’s context: Caedmon was a lay monk who couldn’t sing, and felt very excluded from the community, and one evening as all the other monks were singing, he went into the stable to cry, fell asleep, and had a vision of an angel who told him to sing of creation. And then he did! And became a great hymnodist! Miracle!
The parts of this that the Victorians liked were: divine inspiration, NAMED origin of English verse, and English poetry being handed over directly from God. In a stable. Infer metaphor here. The parts they didn’t like were: Catholicism, focus on the monastic community, the fact that Caedmon was a hymnodist specifically, which was seen as significantly less classy than being a poet. So Caedmon just gets called a poet.
HOWEVER, after WWI, rather than trying to scrape the objectionable religious bits off in order to serve a collective national narrative about religion and poetry, Caedmon becomes a vehicle for poets to examine their own relationship with religion and the creative process in what religious scholar Grace Davie refers to as the 20th c. tendency towards ‘spiritual bricolage.’ That is, picking and choosing religious elements that appeal to you.
Norman Nicholson, in his poem Caedmon, recasts Caedmon’s work as a laborious, terrifying process requiring him to face mortality, in rebuke to Romantic/Victorian ideas of the creative process being the muse handing you a harp.
My best girl, Denise Levertov, focuses on her own conversion to Catholicism, bringing Caedmon back to Bede’s narrative, by emphasising the importance of both the joy of inclusion, and of song - and the creative process - to a community. Full circle!
Levertov’s poem is here:  http://www.southernhumanitiesreview.com/denise-levertov-caedmon.html
Aziraphale and Crowley reading Levertov, tempting Caedmon, and then, as promised, making out furiously, are here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/19876180
people who don't know anything about academics: man y'all are stuffy and boring what's up with that? actual academics: *too busy fist-fighting each other over the beryllium problem or the existence of a dentistry profession in ancient egypt to reply*
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terrorgeist · 2 years ago
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They pat themselves on the back for their youthful exuberance. They escaped the doldrums of pain, no longer running the gauntlet of meaningless violence.
But what do they get for their success? What is their pay for such ascendance? It is the sight of an inkwell run dry, words splashed across papyrus in the softest of hand, ligatures on the mend. Nothing scratches beneath the surface, the corners never fray, prose never falls short. So without that gap, without the need to carve strips from paperbark flesh, life dwindles in its light. The candle snuffed out, all of liberal comfort’s false architecture replacing razor-edged grey matter with pillow stuffing.
It is closed loops and optimisation, kind regards and hope you’re wells, and all that pious nonsense. It is turning their backs on bricolage, on refuse and scrap heaps of their own making, and instead a turn to a great horizontalisation, an even plane, all things considered, nothing evaluated in the light of poverty or necessity. Nothing rises from this flattened wasteland, and nothing goes deeper either. The sky becomes another commodity, just as the ocean went before it, and a hush falls across the land.
You can say this much for landfill - at least someone built it, heaving mounds raised to the sky, painstakingly moulded and preened, volcanos of rejection and abandonment spewing the ghosts of orgasm with nothing but time on their hands to plot, to get even at a world so ready to be done with them. The objects of previous use encroach upon us as quickly as they’re cast aside, the return of the repressed stinking of quarterly fashions gone horribly wrong, and they eventually take the sky we have so blindly lost sight of. Hellfire will rain down, and we will rue the day that the last living artists became so infatuated with the tyranny of the new.
At least our waste is building something that will last. For all our gesturing to progress, none of this around us strikes a match in comparison to the solar totality of what we’ve thrown away in the mad rush for immortality.
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genshinlearnfrench · 2 years ago
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Teyvat Géo Magazine – Le voyage d’Alice à Mondstadt
The original text can be found via the link. Here I will write down some expressions/words that I personally find interesting for learning:
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Vallée Dadaupa - Dadaupa Gorge
afficher une population nombreuse - to have a large population
nul doute que - no doubt that
pousser cette réflexion plus loin - to take this thought further
moudre - to grind
le/la congénère - fellow creature
une machine à mouvement perpétuel - perpetual motion machine
faire part de qch à qn - to tell someone about something
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Falaise Arrachétoile - Starsnatch Cliff
à mon humble avis - in my humble opinion
il ne s’est guère donné la peine de réfléchir à qch - he hardly bothered to think about something
voir le jour - to see the light of day
la falaise - cliff
s’effondrer - to collapse
rejoindre le niveau de la terre - to reach the ground level
ne s’en porter que mieux - to result in better
sur-le-champ - right away
rester à l’écart de qch - to stay away from something
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Ventlevé - Windrise
un tant soit peu - the slightest bit
il se dresse - is located, raises itself
un chêne - oak tree
vérifier une théorie - to test a theory
la hutte - hut, lodge
quelle déception - what a disappointment
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Côte du Faucon - Falcon Coast
une expérience ratée - failed experiment
causer quelques remous - to cause quite a sensation / to cause some debate
ça m'a valu(e) qch - it cost me something (with a word: ça m'a value d’être surveillée)
se replier sur qch - to fall back on, to retreat to
être d'un ennui - to be incredibly boring
le rapace - raptor
tournoyer dans le ciel - to whirl in the sky
pire que tout - worst of all
une éclaireuse - girl scout
les enfants du coin - the local kids
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Bois des Murmures - Whispering Woods
énième - yet another
le bricolage - DIY, craft
aisément - easily
réduire en cendres - to reduce to ashes
mon idée n’en demeure pas moins brillante - nevertheless, my idea is still brilliant
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Canyon de Brillecouronne - Brightcrown Canyon
ballot (adj.) - stupid
l’expérience n’a pas été concluante - the experiment wasn't a great success
voler en éclats - to shatter, to explode
accrocher - to hang
dans le procédé - in the process
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Antre de Stormterror - Stormterror's Lair
ériger - to establish
construire suivant une forme de cercle - to build in a circle shape
un anneau - ring
ascension de la tour - tower climb
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