The Strange Career of Jim Crow

Whilst down South I decided to read a book about the South.  Specifically about Jim Crow and desegregation.  My brother is a public history major and specializes in Louisiana history - so he had quite a few books to choose from.  The one I picked The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward is essentially a series of essays published as a short history.  It was very readable, and his argument was convincing, but it is not in any way an introduction to the subject. I am ashamed to admit that I didn't know enough about major events in Southern U.S. history to totally follow the names, events, and theories that Woodward referenced throughout.  

But I did like this quote:

"When a scientific theory ceases to account for the observed facts of common experience, however, it would seem to be time to discard the theory." (109).

Place and Space

"Place is not only coadunative but also...deconstructive -- deconstructive of oppositions that it brings and holds together within its own ambience.  These oppositions include binary pairs of terms that have enjoyed hegemonic power in Western epistemology and metaphysics.  I am thinking of such dichotomies as subject and object, self and other, formal and substantive, mind and body, inner and outer, perception and imagination (or memory), and nature and culture themselves."

-- Edward S. Casey. 1997.   "How to get from space to place in a fairly short stretch of time: Phenomenological prolegomena"  (36)

Play and Repeat

Wow, this explains soo much!

Karl Hyde (Underworld) - music he listens to over and over again:

2001: A Space Odyssey: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1968 LP)
When I was 11 I locked myself in a wardrobe for two weeks with a record player and the soundtrack to 2001. I took dad's torch to be alone reliving the sensations I'd experienced in the Kidderminster Odeon. It was György Ligeti's work that I felt instant empathy with. It gave me my first insight into the beauty concealed in the union of discordant harmonies. Images of virtual spaces and conceptual rooms floated through my 11-year-old head, rewiring a provincial imagination. The road to a life beyond Worcestershire slowly opened. Thirty-eight years later, working on the score to Danny Boyle's Sunshine, I was shaking, excited, eager to reignite a memory. It felt like coming home, drawing on the experience of that first encounter with a soundtrack that altered the entire course of my life.

Source

Did You Say 'Winter?'

Note

The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being.  Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.
The Phenomenology of Perception Merleau-Ponty