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Breaking Through Language and Visual Hegemonies

Jim Coleman (of Nightingale at Large fame) made the following comment to an earlier post on Ocularcentrism. His insights are too provocative to lay hidden in the folds of this blog:
I wanted to be sure you noticed …the article in the April 16th New Yorker by John Calapinto on the language of the Piraha, a [...]

Ocularcentrism

Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula
I’ve been back from Australia for two weeks, but my intoxication with Aboriginal art continues unabated. My night dreams and daytime ponderings are populated with images and senses that are not of this hemisphere.
For years I have studied Aboriginal art though reproductions. As is the case with any artist whose work I feel [...]