Comments on: More on “the bloody, rich mulch of life:” Part II of my interview with The Republic of Nature author Mark Fiege http://www.historiann.com/2012/03/28/more-on-the-bloody-rich-mulch-of-life-part-ii-of-my-interview-with-the-republic-of-nature-author-mark-fiege/ History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present Wed, 22 May 2013 16:06:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Stephen Karlson http://www.historiann.com/2012/03/28/more-on-the-bloody-rich-mulch-of-life-part-ii-of-my-interview-with-the-republic-of-nature-author-mark-fiege/comment-page-1/#comment-991369 Stephen Karlson Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:14:56 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=18425#comment-991369 Topic drift, but possibly of interest. Artist H. D. Tylle, whose "Touring Germany and Working in Wisconsin" is the current visiting exhibit at the Grohmann Museum of the Milwaukee School of Engineering, will be present there for a closing reception from 5 to 9 pm on April 20. The museum (see <a href="http://www.msoe.edu/museum" rel="nofollow">site</a>) is one of only a few collections concentrating on the art of the manual and industrial arts. There are some marvelous (unintentional) socialist realist sculptures on the roof garden. It's a few blocks east of the river, not far from the exposition center, and the conference theme complements the collection. Topic drift, but possibly of interest. Artist H. D. Tylle, whose “Touring Germany and Working in Wisconsin” is the current visiting exhibit at the Grohmann Museum of the Milwaukee School of Engineering, will be present there for a closing reception from 5 to 9 pm on April 20.

The museum (see site) is one of only a few collections concentrating on the art of the manual and industrial arts. There are some marvelous (unintentional) socialist realist sculptures on the roof garden. It’s a few blocks east of the river, not far from the exposition center, and the conference theme complements the collection.

]]> By: Susan http://www.historiann.com/2012/03/28/more-on-the-bloody-rich-mulch-of-life-part-ii-of-my-interview-with-the-republic-of-nature-author-mark-fiege/comment-page-1/#comment-987385 Susan Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:05:44 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=18425#comment-987385 I'm going to have to chew on the idea that material things have political properties... I've always been interested in material things (hard to keep the old marxist down) but not necessarily in their political context. I’m going to have to chew on the idea that material things have political properties… I’ve always been interested in material things (hard to keep the old marxist down) but not necessarily in their political context.

]]> By: Indyanna http://www.historiann.com/2012/03/28/more-on-the-bloody-rich-mulch-of-life-part-ii-of-my-interview-with-the-republic-of-nature-author-mark-fiege/comment-page-1/#comment-987215 Indyanna Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:06:46 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=18425#comment-987215 The "where do you draw the line" question is an interesting and important and essential one, and--just coincidentally--mirrors some of the questions that have been coming down from both sides of an obviously divided Supreme Court in the last couple of days around issues like "what would the commerce clause NOT extend to include or cover." By (human) nature we like to elide these sorts of structural or practitionary inconveniences, and most such conceptual scholarly lines are drawn in fairly dry sand on beaches filled with frenetically scurrying practitioners carrying sand pails and netbooks. Yet the effective dying out or at least the gradual weakening of some interpretive organizing principles (c.f. republicanism) may possibly be related to the presumption that there's one version of them for every category of human behavior. When 2002 rolled around and there wasn't another decadal update by Robert Shallhope on "Republicanism" I assumed it was like a Mars Rover or Neptune Orbiter finally going cold. The “where do you draw the line” question is an interesting and important and essential one, and–just coincidentally–mirrors some of the questions that have been coming down from both sides of an obviously divided Supreme Court in the last couple of days around issues like “what would the commerce clause NOT extend to include or cover.” By (human) nature we like to elide these sorts of structural or practitionary inconveniences, and most such conceptual scholarly lines are drawn in fairly dry sand on beaches filled with frenetically scurrying practitioners carrying sand pails and netbooks. Yet the effective dying out or at least the gradual weakening of some interpretive organizing principles (c.f. republicanism) may possibly be related to the presumption that there’s one version of them for every category of human behavior. When 2002 rolled around and there wasn’t another decadal update by Robert Shallhope on “Republicanism” I assumed it was like a Mars Rover or Neptune Orbiter finally going cold.

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