John Bennett
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Eco
Roos in the garden
Roos in the garden Eighteenth-century thinkers wrestled with human/non-human animal distinctions. Jeremy Bentham asked if animals suffer. We now…
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Photography
Art at the Venice Biennale, 2011
Art at the Venice Biennale, 2011 The French pavilion by Christian Boltanski, vast scaffolding running pictures of new born Poles…
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Phronesis and techne – technical philosophy
Phronesis and techne – technical philosophy Practical wisdom (phronesis) involves Aristotle notes in moving between the particular and the general.…
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Techne and poetry – technical philosophy
Techne and poetry – technical philosophy Plato never treated poetry as art and denied poets any standing, or worse, considered…
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Don’t Mention the War, March 2003
War is an artist, a writer a concatenation of stories – dramatic, pitiful, exciting, dedicated to death. So I listen…
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Poets Against the War (in Iraq)
Poets Against the War On March 5th, 2003 governments all around the world received a copy of the largest anthology…
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The end of the pastoral
The pastoral is still often taken as the central genre of nature poetry, I look towards an ecopoetics as a way…
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Tarot, astrology
35% of Australians believe in astrology . . . . Galilleo made a living casting horoscopes for students and patrons…
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What is the Poet’s Responsibility?
In this essai I suggest that poets have a triple-accountability – to the poem, their audience and a citizens to…
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Antarctica
Antarctica Project
Antarctica is a multi-dimensional poem which includes history, politics, the natural sciences and ecological themes.
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