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- What is the difference between my arm rising and my raising it? A capoeirista asks
Oskar, Anscombe's test fits. After the block, if someone asks why my leg went up, I say "to block" without thinking. If my knee jerks at the doctor's, I say "I don't know…
- Reading group: Huizinga’s Homo Ludens, starting with ‘Nature and Significance of Play’
Week 3. Play and war is the uncomfortable chapter. Huizinga sees chivalry and the honour code as play-forms in warfare, and he clearly mourns their loss. Writing in 1938, I think he was already watchi…
- Can someone explain Danto’s Brillo boxes to a capoeira teacher?
Valentina, yes. That's it. Maybe both are art, but only one is alive. Next exhibition I'm going to ask if we can play it at the opening.
- Can someone explain Danto’s Brillo boxes to a capoeira teacher?
Thank you, Chiara, that's clear. But in the roda the berimbau is more alive, more itself. On the wall it's quiet. If anything, I'd say it's more art when it's played. Does Dan…
- Capoeira is a game, a fight, a dance and a memory: which of Caillois’s boxes does it go in?
Kavya, I like that reading. The way I would put it: in the roda, the play is not the opposite of the serious. Under slavery the play was the serious thing, the way memory and skill survived. So if Hui…