#wolin

[pol-ski]

Slavs and Vikings Festival in Wolin, Poland

The Slavs and Vikings Festival is one of the largest early-medieval events in the world. There are archery and spear-throwing competitions, games and contests for kids, craft-making presentations demonstrating how jewelry, coins, horns, and amber were created, live music, readings, and much more.

Wolin is a town located on Poland’s largest island (of the same name) on the coast of the Baltic Sea. It's a City of History, whose glory days date back to 1000 years ago. In the early Middle Ages, it was one of the largest and most powerful cities in this part of Europe, and ranked among the most important ports of the Baltic Sea. Wolin is considered to have been the gateway through which Scandinavians traveled southwards from the Baltic Sea to inland Piast state.

[aelianur]

From last year's wolin. Working to gain space for the dane axe to deliver some killing blows.

[blueskipper-photography]

Boats at Wolin’s Gates ©2024 blueskipper

[fieriframes]

[GUY FIERI: Look at that, man. There you go. Wolin, Heidegger’s Children, 134–72. Mm. It's dynamite, man.]

[stromuprisahat]

Kult Triglava (u Wolina) nepřímo potvrzuje i lidová tradice uváděná ještě v 19. století, podle níž lze v kraji za svatojánské noci spatřit při měsíčním svitu pasoucího se nádherného černého koně (Triglavovo posvátné zvíře), který však okamžitě zmizí, pokud se k němu člověk pokusí přiblížit. ~ The cult of Triglav (near Wolin) is also indirectly confirmed by a folk tradition reported as far back as the 19th century, according to which a magnificent black horse (Triglav's sacred animal) can be seen grazing in the region in the moonlight on Midsummer night, but which, however, immediately disappears if approached.

Bohové dávných Slovanů ~ Gods of ancient Slavs (Martin Pitro, Petr Vokáč)

[oncanvas]

(American Flag), Joseph Wolin, 1989

Screenprint 11 × 15 5/16 in. (27.9 × 38.9 cm) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY, USA

[the-framed-maelstrom]

In the history of German political thought, the doctrines of this very German philosopher (Hegel) prove to be something of a Trojan horse: they represent a primary avenue via which "alien" bourgeois forms of political life have infiltrated healthy and autochthonous German traditions, one of whose distinguishing features is an authoritarian rejection of constitutionalism and all it implies...

Richard Wolin, Aesthetics of Horror

[geezerwench]

My wife and I recreated Aja Trier's Calvin and Hobbes Starry Night using roughly 38,000 LEGO pieces. There are 144 of the 16x16 art series plates with a final size around 5 foot wide by 5 foot tall. Big thanks to the creators of LEGO Art Remix, which was used to render the mosaic. This was displayed at Brick Days in Omaha and won the award for best artwork!

via Ben Woline and Tigon Woline

[grandhotelabyss]

I'm sure everything Wolin says here is true, and deplorable, but still, we know Heidegger was a Nazi, we've known in detail for at least 40 years, no one except the far right excuses it, and we've had plenty of time to detach it from what he had to say that was worthwhile, and so much worse for the revolutionary left or the liberal center that they never had a proper answer to that.

Whence the logic of contamination? Why will it be assumed that if I allow Heidegger had a point about the proper affect inspired by the work of art—a kind of reverent stillness, rather than an imperial willfulness—I will thereby necessarily be implicated in his (in this case totally irrelevant) nonsense about "world Jewry"?

I haven't read Wolin's Heidegger book, but I did read his Seduction of Unreason, which calls a symptomatically bewildering range of thinkers "fascist" (Nietzsche, Blanchot, Jung, Bataille, etc.) because they dishonored "reason." He winds up with an attack on left-wing anti-Americanism, this written just before and published just after the Iraq invasion—speaking of academic complicity with political terror. And I read at least some of The Wind from the East, Wolin's book on how the Maoism of the soixante-huitards usefully aerated the culture of the French intelligentsia, softened it up for American-style participatory democracy—though why intellectual credulity before Mao should be treated with so much more forgiveness than intellectual credulity before Hitler is not immediately clear to me.

I am no great admirer of the stylistically rebarbative Heidegger beyond an essay or two, but the constant spectacle of his execration has the "look over there" function of diverting our attention from more contemporary theoretical collaborations with oppressive power. The Financial Times has reported that rates of cancer are rising in my generation due to the bubblegum-pink amoxycillin they had us swilling as kids several times a year; but this somehow seems less important than yet another reminder that the most famous philosopher to question the high holiness of science was a bad man. And finally, it has the effect of totally politicizing the whole of culture in a style known both to Hitler and to Mao.

[cinematitlecards]

"Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan" (2006) Directed by Larry Charles (Comedy) . . "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery Of Prodigious Bribe To American Regime For Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" (2020) Directed by Jason Woliner (Comedy)

[rickchung]

Paul T. Goldman (prod. Jason Woliner).

Peacock’s very strange six-episode docu-comedy series hybrid blends true crime narrative adaptations with documentary and reality television filmmaking conventions for an uneasy but highly original take on a surreal life. 

What we’re watching is ostensibly the filming of the eponymous main character’s own life story starring the man himself while breaking the fourth wall with actors commenting on the project they are making with the actual producers and director commenting as themselves. It’s a strange meta-narrative that presents clear moral quandaries.

[aelianur]

A strange story of a slavic warrior and a latin mercenary falling in love.

Photos by rekografia

[abwwia]

Penny Wolin, Jackalopes, Cowboys and Coalmines: A Photographic Survey of Energy Development in Wyoming, 1979, chromogenic color print, image: 83⁄4 × 121⁄4 in. (22.2 × 31.1 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1983.63.1889

Penny Wolin (born June 5, 1953), also known as Penny Diane Wolin and Penny Wolin-Semple, is an American portrait photographer and a visual anthropologist. She has exhibited solo at the Smithsonian Institution and is the recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and one grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. via Wikipedia

[mycstilleblog]

"Hybris und Nemesis" von Rainer Mausfeld. Rezension

Wir leben in einer Zeit der Krisen. Nicht zuletzt in einer Krise der Demokratie. Haben wir überhaupt eine Demokratie? Hatten wir je eine? Oskar Lafontaine etwa urteilte in einem Interview mit Tilo Jung einmal: „“Deutschland ist keine Demokratie, sondern eine Oligarchie“. Beispielsweise sind 73 Prozent der Deutschen gegen einen Militäreinsatz der Bundeswehr in Syrien (Welt-Trend). Dennoch findet…