Re: lexicon
| From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 2, 2003, 20:45 |
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Quoting J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>:
> some form >of art... our defense against "wilderness."
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> "Our"? Who is "we" in this case? Perhaps "defense against
> wilderness" is
> one of Western Civilisation's many chthonic preoccupations.
> Nowadays it seems more like "defense against monotony" vs.
> "defense
> against the Other".
What are we meaning by "wilderness" here? Chinese, Feng Shui-y, gardening
seems to me like a perfect example of art as "defense against wilderness";
nature itself reordered to boot out disorder and maligncy. I'll happily admit
that I'm unfamiliar with Chinese thinking/philosophy, but the outer form here
strikes me as fitting perfectly in Sally's box.
You apparently think differently - care to elaborate?
Andreas