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Mad genius auteur Andrzej Zulawski working with the tentacle monster from his 1981 psychotic/supernatural familIal horror masterpiece POSSESSION.
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Mamihlapinatapai
Two people looking at each other each hoping the other will do what both desire but neither is willing to do.
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By Edward Weston
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The basic subsystems of the general system of action constitute a hierarchical series of such agencies of control of the behavior of individuals or organisms. The behavioral organisms is the point of articulation of the system of action with the anatomical-physiological features of the physical organism and is its point of contact with the physical environment. The personality system is, in turn, a system of control over the behavioral organism; the social system, over the personalities of its participating members; and the cultural system, a system of control relative to social systems.
-Parsons, An Outline of the Social System (via markoon)
-Parsons, An Outline of the Social System (via markoon)
by Aleksandras Macijauskas
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Alfred Stieglitz – Rebecca Strand, 1923
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Not only is it [the human brain] the primary organ for controlling complex operations, notably manual skills, and coordinating visual and auditory information, but above all it is the organic basis of the capacity to learn and manipulate symbols. Hence it is the organic foundation of culture.
-Talcott Parsons, sociologist, in “Evolutionary Universals in Society” (1964)
-Talcott Parsons, sociologist, in “Evolutionary Universals in Society” (1964)
The Minamata Pietà
W. Eugene Smith. Minamata Japan 1972
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