…a machinery invented in the “enlightenment” to destroy local cultures, minorities, regional idiosyncracies, multicultural Mediterraneanism, variability, entropy, etc. & necessarily accompanied by STATISM, paternalism, nudgism. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nationalism…
15 DecPhoto: Connemara, county Galway, 1927– Three generations of Irish women stand outside their stone cottage. American photographer Clifton Royal Adams.
14 Dec(click)
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Hagia Sophia: a picture is worth a thousand words
14 Dec
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Thirty largest cities in Europe, 1050 – 1800 A.D.
13 DecWhy isn’t Istanbul/Constantinople here? Naples throughout…reminder of what an age-old first it was in the history of European urbanism. Click for large.
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Heathcliff (I’m assuming): “I care nothing for your sufferings.”
13 Dec
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Niko Pirosmani: Portrait of wine-pub owner on a red background
12 DecGeorgian naïve painter Niko Pirosmani (Georgian: ნიკო ფიროსმანი), 1862–1918
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Even more beautiful Irish singing: The Rocky Road To Dublin – The Ramparts
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Erdie and the EU: When it would be funny if it weren’t so depressing and worrisome
12 Dec
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Alexandria’s Nuovo Teatro Alhambra, 1926
12 DecA testament to the funky cosmopolitanism of the Mediterranean “Cities We Lost“ (see Facebook page) and to the strength of Italian regional language cultures — a great juxtaposition of wordliness and provincialism, or the provincial in the cosmopolitan — the Alhambra Theater in Alexandria, one of the city’s first, hosts a travelling theater troupe staging productions in Sicilian dialect:
The stills above are taken from Giorgos Augeropoulos‘ beautiful documentary, Egypt: The Other Homeland | Al Jazeera World, a piece about the Greeks of Alexandria in the 19th and 20th centuries. This documentary was the subject of one of our first Jadde posts: “Another people’s exodus from Egypt“, posted right around Passover that year.
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Όταν θα πάω κυρά μου στο παζάρι, Irish edition
12 DecA lot of fun, the rising crescendo of spirits, and beautiful Irish English…
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Jadde: from Bosnia to Bengal 