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# Further Reading
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2021/02/21/further-reading-78/
- Published: 2021-02-21T13:12:36.000Z
- Updated: 2023-11-19T13:58:37.000Z
- Description: Against relevance in art. Dust from space. Black Holes. Bird cognition. Brutalism. Jeff Koons teaches art and creativity. A brief cultural history of arm chairs and rocking chairs. Jürgen Habermas. Federico Fellini. Georges Perec. And more.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Blog, Further Reading

Moralischer Universalismus in Zeiten politischer Regression. [Jürgen Habermas im Gespräch](https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0340-0425-2020-1-7.pdf?download%5Ffull%5Fpdf=1&ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) über die Gegenwart und sein Lebenswerk.

[Against “relevance” in art](https://harpers.org/archive/2020/11/making-meaning-garth-greenwell/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). “My discomfort with our current use of 'relevance' as a term of judgment is that it conceals its criteria, and that those criteria are not aesthetic, but social and political. I worry that if we make such 'relevance' not just one among other judgments we might make about art, but a condition of our interest, we have made that condition purely about the explicit, discursive content of art, its subject matter. In doing so, we devalue the elements of a work that, to my thinking, properly distinguish it as art; we deny the importance of form.”

[Federico Fellini and the lost magic of cinema](https://harpers.org/archive/2021/03/il-maestro-federico-fellini-martin-scorsese/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). Essay by Martin Scorsese.

Jeff Koons [teaches](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhICVnfwcpE&ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) art and creativity.

George Perec's [isle of tears](https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2021/02/10/georges-perecs-isle-of-tears/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

[Review](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/02/25/intrepid-navigators-birds-migration/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) of three new books on bird cognition by Robert O. Paxton. *What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why* by David Allen Sibley; *The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think* by Jennifer Ackerman; and *Flights of Passage: An Illustrated Natural History of Bird Migration* by Mike Unwin and David Tipling.

[Beauty and the brutalists](https://www.ft.com/content/56088f69-cb96-4344-86c2-23d383274013?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com): Why the most maligned style in history should be preserved.

[What dust from space tells us about ourselves](https://t.co/LW6NTCQJjY?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). “If it wasn’t for the dust, our universe would be a pretty mundane place... The dust links stars with everything else, with all the planets, all the living things on those planets. It’s the dust that’s responsible, ultimately.”

Growing [inventory of black holes](https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-black-holes-offer-physicists-a-radical-probe-of-the-cosmos-20210217/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) offers a radical probe of the cosmos. One black hole is nice, but astrophysicists can do a lot more science with 50 of them.

A [brief cultural history](https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/postures-of-transport?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) of arm chairs and rocking chairs.