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IND -9.5 vs CHI
Tough loss on the Arizona/Toledo over last night guys. I don't make excuses but I thought I really had that one pegged right, Toledo just refused to score from inside the 5-yard line. Anyway, the NFL is finally here and it's time to start rolling. The Colts are my top play today. In Week 1, I see no reason to overthink things. In my opinion, the Colts are one of the three best teams in the NFL and the Bears are one of the three worst. All the Colts have to do is win by 10. I like my odds. The Colts treat preseason like a glorified practice. They spend all summer preparing for their opening day opponent, that's why they normally play so well in Week 1 after looking like garbage for most of the preseason.
Now, there is a concern that Peyton Manning may be rusty. I don't buy into that for two main reasons. One, I've seen this guy practice up close and personal. Trust me, he could shut his eyes and hit Wayne, Clark and Harrison on a rope. Those guys are so in sync it's scary. The second reason I'm not concerned about Manning is because the Bears defense isn't what it once was. The Colts will be able to run the ball just as well as throw it. We saw that a couple of years ago in the Super Bowl when these two teams met. Plus, the Bears and Colts run the same defense, so Manning sees it all the time in practice. Not good news if you are a Bears fan .
We have an AFC powerhouse opening up their new stadium against an NFC weakling. I see the Colts winning this game by at least 17 points. ***2 UNIT PLAY***
NOS -3.0 vs TAM
I see these two teams going in different directions this year. I predicted last year that the Saints wouldn't make the playoffs because of their defensive weaknesses but I think their defense will be improved this season. When I look at the Bucs, I see a defense that's not nearly as good as it used to be and an offense that's going to struggle to score points on a consistent basis. That won't be a problem for New Orleans, a team that has one of the most explosive offenses in the NFL. I think at the end of this season the Saints will be a playoff team, while the Bucs will win 5-6 games. I'll take a shot with what I believe is the much more talented team playing at home and only laying a field goal. ***1 UNIT PLAY***
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Houston/Pittsburgh Over 43 (POD)
First the Research that went into this game
Houston can very well give Pitt all they can handle. I am actually a fan of Houston in many ways, I love their offense, their coaching as well as their gutsy pick to take Williams over Reggie Bush in an effort to build this defense and to make a stand at some point, the need to build a core of a defense and they have done a decent job at that. The public is about 2/3rds in favor of Pitt here but the line has taken a bit, These 2 teams haven't met since 2005, I think Pitt is going to be in for all they can handle and more importantly, I wouldn't be surprised to see this game go over.
Final Write-up
I checked the weather in this game and it will be in the mid 60's and partly cloudy. Note that Houston can flat out put up points and the last 3 road games they have had have gone well over and this Pittsburgh team has a defense that is overrated. Note, this is the same Pittsburgh team that gave up 22 and 29 against Jacksonville at home and on the road they typically play the over as well. Houston has a very competent offense and frankly, I can see this game ending at least in a 24-21 type of ballgame being decided by a field goal. Having said this, I do see Houston covering at the end of the day, but rather than the cover, I will take the over here as I do expect Houston to be an active dog and I have always said, it goes by my active dog/over principle. Keep in mind the over is 6-0 for the Steelers in Game 1 and the Steelers have played the over in their last 4 ballgames. The over is 7-2-1 in the last 10 ballgames for the Texans and the over is 5-1 for the Texans in September as well as.
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My Las Vegas Insider is on the Bos Red Sox at 3:05 ET. The Red Sox had won four straight games overall (nine of 11) and all EIGHT over the Rangers this year, as they entered last night's game in Arlington. The Red Sox had scored 75 runs (9.4 per) against the struggling Texas pitching staff (owns worst ERA in MLB) in '08 and pounded out 13 hits and eight runs again last night. However, Boston starter Tim Wakefield couldn't make it out of the second inning (allowed seven runs) and the Red Sox wound up on the short side of a 15-8 loss. They missed an opportunity to gain ground on the Rays in the AL East (trail by 2 1/2), who also lost and remained 5 1/2 games up on the Twins in the wild card chase, as the Twins lost as well. No sense crying over spilled milk, so the defending champs will set their sights on Sunday's game, looking to avoid their first series loss since losing both games of a rain-shortened series at home to the Blue Jays on August 16 and 17. I sure like their chances to win here, as Paul Byrd has rewarded Boston's faith in him. Byrd was coming off an excellent 2007 season in which he helped lead the Indians to the brink of the World Series, going 15-8. However, he had been dreadful for most of '08, before catching 'fire' right after the break. He went 4-0 with a 1.26 ERA for the Indians from July 21-August 9 and Boston traded for him. While he hasn't been as sharp for Boston as he had been in that final four-game stretch for Cleveland, he has gone 3-1 with a 4.78 ERA for the Red Sox, making him 7-1 with a 2.93 ERA over his last eight starts, overall. As mentioned earlier, the Rangers own MLB's worst team ERA (5.32) and in going just 36-35 at home, the Rangers have allowed their opponents to average 6.11 RPG in Arlington. Brandon McCarthy will get the start opposite of Byrd and the 25-year-old right-hander, who began his career with the White Sox in '05, will be looking to build on his first ML win in more than a year when he takes the mound. McCarthy did little in '05 for Chicago and then in '06, was used out of the bullpen for 51 of his 53 appearances. Last year though, 22 of his 23 appearances were as a starter for the Rangers, as he went a disappointing 5-10 with a 4.87 ERA (Rangers were 9-13). McCarthy began this year by going on the 60-day DL on March 30 with right forearm inflammation and didn't make his first start until August 23. He got no-decisions in each of his first two outings of '08 (2.70 ERA) but Tuesday against Seattle, he allowed two ERs and four hits in six innings of a 6-4 win. The victory was his first since July 31, 2007. That's a nice story but here he'll face a Boston lineup which has averaged 9.22 RPG in nine games (8-1) vs Texas pitching in '08 and has put most of its road woes behind it. Boston returned from the break to lose all three games in Anaheim but has since gone 14-7 away from Fenway. Make that 15-7, after this game. Las Vegas Insider on the Bos Red Sox.
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Libeskind's New Angular Congres Centre Opens to the Public
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Nicole Anderson.
Daniel Libeskind's recently completed Congres Centre, in Mons, Belgium, has opened its doors just in time to kick off the city's year of festivities as the 2015 European Capital of Culture. The new convention center bears the architect's signature jagged style, featuring two sharp protruding and overlapping volumes, and is designed "as a new architectural landmark for Mons" and "connector between the old and the new," explained Studio Libeskind in a statement.
On View> Drawings by Hadid, Tschumi, Gehry, Libeskind, and Koolhaas are being exhibited right now in St. Louis
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Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association
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The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis is currently exhibiting early drawings from some of the world's leading architects including Zaha Hadid, Bernard Tschumi, Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind, and Rem Koolhaas. The works come from the private collection of the late Alvin Boyarsky who chaired the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London from 1971 to 1990.
Daniel Libeskind, Bookie> Here's what is on the starchitects reading list
Monday, December 1, 2014
Leslie Clagett.
In a recent Q&A with the Boston Globe, Daniel Libeskind made it clear that when it comes to books, he doesn't just look at the pictures. Titles on the architect's current reading list reflect a predilection for essays and short stories—Borges, Melville, and Walter Benjamin, among others. He told the Globe that he keeps a set of Edgar Allan Poe stories on his bedside table.
Daniel Libeskind and Marina Abramovic Team Up on a Table Design
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Leslie Clagett.
Architect Daniel Libeskind has collaborated with artist Marina Abramovic on the design of furniture for her upcoming event, "Counting the Rice," which will be staged December 4–7 during Miami Art Basel. The integrated table/bench will be fabricated in concrete by Moroso in a limited edition of 30 pieces. Plywood versions were created for previous performances in Geneva and Milan.
Dress like an architect for halloween, if you so choose
Friday, October 24, 2014
Henry Melcher.
Given that you're reading The Architect's Newspaper right now, there's a very good chance you're an architect. If that's true, then dressing up as an architect on Halloween would be a pretty lame costume idea. That is, unless you went as one of The Greats—we're not saying you're not one of them…but, you know what we mean.
Daniel Libeskind to Deliver Keynote Address for Dwell on Design in New York
Friday, October 3, 2014
The Editors.
On October 9, Daniel Libeskind marks the opening of Dwell on Design NY, a three-day event bringing together design luminaries for discussions and presentations on urban design and architecture. Other speakers at the conference include architect David Rockwell, Pentagram partner Michael Bierut, Designtex CEO Susan Lyons, Claire Fellman of Snøhetta, and many others. Highlights of Dwell on Design NY include self-guided tours of private residences in Tribeca, the Flatiron district, Harlem, and Soho; the curated retail Dwell Store; and CEU sessions. More information is available on the Dwell on Design website.
From 67 floors above the World Trade Center, a progress report
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Henry Melcher.
Earlier this week, AN went up to the 67th floor of the recently-opened 4 World Trade Center to get a progress report on the 16-acre redevelopment taking shape below. Inside the wide-open and raw space, Larry Silverstein, the site's developer, told reporters that his vision for a new World Trade Center had finally become a reality. "I've gotten a bit of a reputation as a wild-eyed optimist," he said in front of a wall of windows. "But even I have to admit that I didn't see all this coming." Noting that it had been 13 years since the attacks, he went on to refer to the anniversary as the site's "bar mitzvah."
Daniel Libeskind's 60-story Century Spire begins construction in Manila
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Habin Kwak.
In collaboration with Studio Daniel Libeskind and Armani/Casa, developer Century Properties has begun construction on the Century Spire tower in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. The tower will stand with Trump Tower, the Gramercy Residences, and the Knightsbridge Residences among others to complete the project known as Century City.
Milan In Review> Interiors & Environments Push the Salone del Mobile Beyond Furniture
Monday, April 21, 2014
Alan G. Brake.
It's easy to get overwhelmed at the Salone del Mobile and the dozens of related events during Milan Design Week. Luckily there are plenty of visual palate cleansers in form of immersive environments, from new showrooms by Pritzker Prize–winning architects to dazzling installations by up-and-coming designers. There is more to Milan Design Week than just great looking furniture! At the Triennale design museum, for instance, Paris-based DGT architects created a light-catching installation for Citizen watches called Light is Time (above), featuring space dividing curtains made of tens of thousands of watch plates.
Product> From Pawson to Libeskind, Quick Picks from Milan Design Week
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Leslie Clagett.
AN editors swept and tweeted through the exhibit halls of the venerable Salone del Mobile last week, as well as the myriad satellite design events, exhibits, and installations that popped up around Milan. Footsore but aesthetically satiated, the AN team has reassembled stateside to share some of the best finds from the fair.
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Here is my talk from yesterday's Apocalypse Now event in Manchester with Tim Edensor, Paul Dobraszczy, Bradley Garrett, and myself. Might be of interest for some. (See also a revised version of this paper at 3:AM).
On the Psychoanalysis of Ruins
Memory of Ruins
I want to thank Paul Dobraszczyk for inviting me to this event today. The topic of ruins has been absent for my mind for several years, at least since I wrote a book on the topic. So, it is always a pleasure to return to an issue that one once loved but then either forgot about otherwise slipped from one's attention owing to other concerns. Of course, as it happens, sometimes we need to find external excuses beyond our own desires to explore these partly forgotten thoughts, and I'm grateful to Paul for providing that reason.
So, today I return to ruins. And I come to it not from the perspective of philosophy, which is my native discipline, but from psychoanalysis, which is my foreign discipline. This re-exploration of the topic has the benefit of allowing me to view it from an alien view, or at least, a view that is not entirely my own. The principle merit of this foreign glance is that it dissuades me from being attracted to the greatest enemy of ruins: nostalgia.
As urban explorers know all too well, becoming overly attached to one's favourite ruin is likely to result in heartbreak. Impossible, after all, to become nostalgic about something that is in constant motion. No matter how much we want the ruin to testify to a past of our own—to be one's own ruin—in the glance of an eye, it assumes a different past, and wholly disconnected to the one we may have incorporated as our own. Incidentally, in my experience, this challenge to the gluttony of human narcissism has always been why ruins are so powerful. Their indifference to us is precisely why we care for them.
And the topic of ruins is especially suited to this type of memory that if forgotten, is nevertheless always latent. Ruins return. This is one of the great surprises that the ruin present to us: its persistence in time. Far from the waste matter of culture, the ruin always resists repression, finding ways to fend off the very decay that constitutes the ruin in the first instance.
No wonder, then, given this complex structure that Freud elected the ruin to the principle metaphor not only for the practice of psycho-analysis but also for the mind itself. In the archaeological excavation of the ruin, Freud found the means to articulate a set of themes central to his thinking as a whole, not least the very preservation of the past in the mind.
Today, I would like to explore this role a little. Why the image of the ruin? What can it tell us about psychoanalysis - and equally, what can psychoanalysis tell us about ruins? And moreover, if Freud's concern is with the ruins of classical Rome and Athens, then how can psychoanalysis contend with the contemporary ruins of Detroit and Chernobyl.
Freud's usage of ruinous and archaeological metaphors shifts through his psychoanalytical thinking, beginning with something broadly equivalent to ruinlust and ending on a note of anxiety and melancholy. At the earliest stages of this relation, he assumes the role of an intrepid adventurer, keen to excavate the buried secrets lurking in the psychic and earthly unconscious. A passage from the 1896 essay "The Aetiology of Hysteria" reads thus:
Imagine that an explorer arrives in a little-known region where his interest is aroused by an expanse of ruins, with remains of walls, fragments of columns, and tablets with half-effaced and unreadable inscriptions... He may have brought picks, shovels and spades with him, and he may set the inhabitants to work with these implements. Together with them he may start upon the ruins, clear away the rubbish, and, beginning from the visible remains, uncover what is buried. If his work is crowned with success, the discoveries are self-explanatory; the ruined walls are part of the ramparts of a palace or a treasure house; the fragments of columns can be filled out into a temple; the numerous inscriptions, which, by good luck, may be bilingual, reveal an alphabet and a language, and, when they have been deciphered and translated, yield undreamed-of information about the events of the remote past, to commemorate which the monuments were built (Freud 2001a, 192).
With this account, Freud indirectly gives us the foundations of analytic theory. In assuming the role of classical explorer, Freud elevates psychoanalysis to a mode of both retrieval and restoration. The dotted fragments and sketchy remains of a former civilization require careful work in order to bring them back the light of consciousness. Too abrasive, the explorer risks effacing the traces through driving them deeper into the buried earth. But with cautious probing, these same traces point to a past that is accessible through the work of reanimation and reconstruction.
Still in this early phase of his thinking on ruins, Freud expands upon his archaeological analysis, remarking that "This procedure was one of clearing away the pathogenic psychical material layer by layer, and we liked to compare it with the technique of excavating a buried city" (Freud 2001b, 139). In each account, the ruin is presented as material, which if disorderly, is also lodged in time and thus receptive to the work of excavation, interpretation, before subsequent reconstruction.
From the outset, then, Freud's relation to ruins is laden with tremendous psychic value. Far from inert matter, devoid of substance, at all times, the materiality of the past assumes a latent meaning. Freud recognises here the value of the ruin as being imbued with a future life, making it clear that the appearance of inactivity is deceptive. In this way, the past in question is one that has an afterlife attached to it, its buried meaning waiting the emergence of a future psychoanalysis to restore it.
This rather uneven relationship between Freud and the ruin gives voice to the latter only by dint of a psychoanalytic intervention. The ruin, to put it in phenomenological terms, speaks less for itself and more through the method of analysis. The ruin does not decipher itself. As a fragment rather than a complete work of materiality, it requires analysis for the ruin to reach a state of reconstructed completion, begging the question of where the ruin ends and the psychoanalysis begins. I leave this important question unanswered for the moment.
The Limits of Ruins
By 1930, Freud was still lingering with the theme of ruins and buried pasts. Only now, he was slightly more cautious about identifying the mind with the ruins of antiquity. In Civilization and Its Discontents, the theme reappears again, this time in relation to the preservation of the past in the mind. He writes: "In mental life nothing which has once been formed can perish—that everything is somehow preserved and that in suitable circumstances...it can once more be brought to light" (Freud 2001c, 69).
Once more, classical ruins assume a central role in deciphering the role of the past in the present. Situating us in the "Eternal City of Rome," Freud provides us with an account of the early days of the city before then posting a critical question: "[How] much [will] a visitor, whom we will suppose be equipped with the most complete historical and topographical knowledge, may still find left of these early stages in the Rome of today"? (69). In response to this question, Freud speculates. I quote at length.
Except for a few gaps, he will see the wall of Aurelian almost unchanged. In some places he will be able to find sections of the Servian Wall where they have been excavated and brought to light ... Of the buildings which once occupied this ancient area he will find nothing, or only scanty remains, for they no longer exist ... Their place is now taken by ruins, but not by ruins of themselves but of later restorations made after fires or destruction. There is certainly not a little that is ancient still buried in the soil of the city or beneath its modern buildings. This is the manner in which the past is preserved in historical sties like Rome (69-70).
There are several remarks to make on this rich passage. At first glance, the surface of the city appears unchanged. Fragments of the past remain in place, raised to the light through excavation. Concerning the broader outline, only remnants have survived. Ruins have taken the place of the former city. Yet the ruins discovered do not give us direct access to the past, but instead are mediated as restorations. All of these ruins and fragments, finally, take their place alongside the familiarity of everyday life in the modern city.
So, we have here multiple orders of space and time. Authentic fragments, reconstructions of ruins, and modern buildings all conspire together to produce a complex relationship between the present and the past. Overlapping with this ordering of space and time are the principle themes of Freudian analysis itself; depth and surface, hidden and revealed meanings, latent and manifest content. Each of these pairings, so central to the workings of analysis, finds a counterpart in the ruins of Rome.
Here, Freud takes a step beyond aligning the ruins of Rome with the themes of psychoanalysis and questions if Rome itself can be compared to a "psychical entity" (70). Pursuing this speculative thought, Freud encounters a dead end. For in imagining Rome as structured by a multiplicity of latent contents, he finds himself contending with the image of two or more different past events occupying the same space simultaneously. This symbioses of different timescales proves too much for Freud, and thus he withdraws the analogy, remarking that "A city is thus a priori unsuited for a comparison of this sort with a mental organism" (71). Only the mind, he goes on to say, is truly able to preserve all the earlier stages of development alongside a "final form" (71).
Disturbance of Memory
By 1936, Freud's relation to ruins took a final, dramatic and rather telling turn. In an essay titled "A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis," Freud gives us an autobiographical account of visiting the ruins of Greece with his younger brother. When Freud arrives at the Acropolis, he makes a striking confession to himself: "So this all really does exist, just as we learned in school!" (Freud 2005, 237). This unexpected disbelief that there is such a place as the Acropolis at all takes the place of joy. In its place, Freud experiences something like dejection or better rejection. For what Freud contends with in the face of this ruin is an experience that cannot be ingested but is instead "an attempt to reject a piece of reality" (238).
This rejection of reality is in direct contrast the relationship Freud developed with ruins in the earlier part of his analytical excavations. This time around, the ruin displaces Freud from his role as intrepid explorer, employing his own past as the means to induce a feeling of melancholic anxiety, which he will term a "feeling of estrangement" or better still, "depersonalization" (240-241). In each of these terms, Freud identifies something in the ruin that resists appropriation. The ruin is factually present, yet experienced as being unreal. This paradox in the structure of experience establishes a disorientated atmosphere, in which things become otherworldly, fragmented, and above all, uncanny.
This disorientation of space and time is uncanny precisely because it leaves the world intact. What follows is a disjunction between reality and experience. Doubt intervenes in the reality of the Acropolis and overpowering sense that the same place is bathed in total unfamiliarity overwhelms him. In the tension, unreality protrudes into the world.
And yet, the world remains as it is. Freud's confrontation with the ruin does not bring about a loss of self or a loss of world. Both remain as they were. Instead of being consumed by nothingness, they loose the quality of being irreducibly real. Here, the materiality of things is not a sufficient condition to attest to their brute existence. Suffering from a lack of phenomenal depth, things become flattened, divested of their dynamism, and now reduced to a simulacrum of reality.
Ultimately, Freud reduces this experience of ruin alienation to an intra-psychic conflict involving the defence of the ego. In particular, he rationalises the experience in terms of an oedipal conflict involving the sense of having travelled "further than one's father, as though wishing to outdo one's father" (243). The guilt that accompanies this thought is held responsible for the disturbance of memory. Given the history of Freud's relationship to ruins as one of lust and colonization, this retreat from the disturbance on the Acropolis should come as no surprise to us. Yet this hasty justification employed to account for the experience of estrangement is especially disappointing given the richness of content overlooked.
Anxiety in the Ruin
In order to pursue this unthought thought in Freud, we would like to return to the ruin with the mood of estrangement and anxiety in mind. I would suggest, in fact, that the mood of anxiety provides us with the clearest sense in which the ruin can challenge our normative ideas of space and time. The dis-orientation of memory and reality that Freud articulates in the face of the Acropolis carries with it a sense of the ruin's power as able to overturn our relationship to the material world.
What if this experience of Freud's was not an ego defence placed in the context of an oedipal drama but an experience of over saturation? There are, after all, certain places in the world that cannot be digested with the senses alone, but instead hover in an anxious space, invoking a ghostly quality that cannot be tied down to appearances.
Elsewhere, I have called this irruption of ghostly matter into the everyday realm an "accident in reality" (Trigg 2012, 274). The term refers to sense of inadvertently catching sight of someone/something that belongs in our nightmares or our unconscious but which has somehow made its way to the surface of daylight appearances. A ruin is set aside from the surrounding world in its ability to contort our rational grasp on space and time. It belongs to an undead realm: of the past, yet haunting the present; dead but in ceaseless motion; devoid of life and yet constitutive of life. The peculiarity of the ruin is that it forces materiality to adhere to the logic of unreality. It is a place that cannot be seen, except in a fleeting fashion. Less still, can it grasp as a concept. With this breakdown in thought and sense, anxiety enters the scene of the ruin.
To put this anxiety in context, consider how Freud's earlier encounter with the ruin was predicated on the idea of it being defined according to an egocentric account of space and time. As he puts it in a note from 1909,
[The] analytic work of construction, or, if it is preferred, of reconstruction [of the patients forgotten years], resembles to a great extent an archaeologist's excavation of some dwelling place that has been destroyed and buried or of some ancient edifice ... Just as the archaeologist builds up the walls of a building from the foundations that have remained standing, determines the number and position of the columns from depressions in the floor, and reconstructs the mural decorations and paintings from the remains found in the debris, so does the analyst proceed when he draws his inferences from fragments of memories, from the associations and from the behaviour of the subject of the analysis. Both of them have an undisputed right to reconstruct by means of supplementing and combining the surviving remains. Both of them, moreover, are subject to many of the same difficulties and sources of error (Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis, 1909).
This earlier approbation of the ruin places Freud in a curiously detached position to the ruin. The ruin beckons itself as a raw matter to be transformed under the gaze of the analyst's watchful eye, thus coalescing the past into the present. This act of returning the past to the present—so central to the work of Freudian analysis generally—eliminates the anxious quality of the ruin by housing it in time. Thus, if Freud cites his method as restoring the past to the present, then it is as much an attempt at restoring the past to the past: in other words, of re-burying it. Only now, ensuring it remains buried.
It is precisely for these reasons that Freud's disorientation at the Acropolis is so telling. With it, the past returns to the past in unbound fashion, decentering the static place of the analyst's ego and revealing the fragile hold psychoanalysis has on the past. Anxiety ensues. But it is a special kind of anxiety. Freud's admission that "What I am seeing there is not real" gestures toward a type of anxiety that mirrors the contingency of ascribing a definite role to the ruin. What he sees in the Acropolis is not so much unreal as marking another reality. The ruin ceases to reflect Freud's own gaze, penetrating the veil of appearances with the gaze of a reality that cannot be assimilated by the ego. The ruin puts Freud out of joint, spatially and temporally. None of this can be considered a failure in the experience of attending to a ruin, but instead is to be regarded as an opening that carries with it the germ of insight.
All of this takes place—importantly—at the birthplace of Reason, Athens. This pilgrimage for Freud turns out to be an encounter with the beyond of Reason. The conditions are in place for an irruption of anxiety. Anxiety unmasks the featureless face of an appearance—that of an egocentric and rationalised concept of the past—and restores it to a state of dizzying contingency. The dizzying anxiety is not peculiar to Freud, but in one way or another haunts all instances of ruination. From Athens to Detroit, time cannot be contained except as a caricature of what it means to confront the past. How, after all, does the past belong to the ruin if not through the experience of anxiety?


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The Vikings were people who came from Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) from about 700 AD to about 1125. This period is called the Viking Age.[a] Vikings traveled great distances in their longships, as traders, settlers and warriors. Many of the Vikings were tall and had red or blonde hair and beards.[b] Villages on or near any coast in early medieval Europe lived in great fear of Viking attacks. Some of the countries most affected by Viking raids were Britain, Germany, France, Spain and Italy.[1]
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The people of the far north, later called Vikings, were first noticed by the Romans around the year 100 BC. This is when the Cimbri and the Teutons moved into southern Gaul.[2] The Romans believed these war-like tribes came from Jutland. But the Romans suspected they were only a part of a greater threat located further north.[2] The Roman historians Jordanes described the destructive Ostrogoths and Visigoths as having come from Gotland.[2] The northern menace survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
The Frankish Empire that succeeded them in Gaul became more and more aware of the northern threat.[2] As the later Carolingian Empire expanded into northern Germany they came into contact with the Danish people. This is when the Vikings first entered into written history.[2] The first recorded raid in the west was at Lindisfarne in 793.[3] Why the Vikings suddenly began raiding is not completely clear. But a popular theory is the populations had grown to the point there was not enough food to feed everyone.[4] The earliest raiders did not seem to want to move out of Scandinavia. They turned to looting, then returning home. This seems to indicate there was space enough for everyone.[4] Because they found raiding so easy, it became more and more popular among the Vikings.[4]
Three different groups of Vikings can be identified. They took three different, sometimes overlapping, routes.[4]
- Danes raided England, Gaul, and followed the Atlantic coast of Europe south into the Mediterranean to Italy.[4]
- Swedes went eastward into the Baltic Sea. They followed the Volga and Dnieper Rivers south as far as the Black Sea. One group, called the 'Rus', founded the settlement of Kiev. They called it Russland (later known as Russia).[4]
- Norwegians raided England but preferred Ireland and Scotland. They also traveled to Greenland and about the year 1,000 AD landed at a place they called Vinland (North America).[4]
Vikings in Europe[change | change source]
Europeans were scared of the Vikings because of their strong weapons, swift attacks, and cruel fighting tactics. They were known for their bad treatment of women, children and monks in the places where they fought. When the Vikings came to England, the English kings paid them to leave the country, but the Vikings took their money and sometimes fought them anyway. These payments were called Danegeld. From the 9th century to 1066, when the French Duke of Normandy, who became King William I of England conquered it, Danish and Norwegian Vikings ruled large parts of England.
Because of their longships, which could float in 4 feet (1.3m) of water, the Vikings were able to make their way up rivers and land deep inside a country. For example they sailed up the River Shannon in Ireland and built a harbour 60 miles (100 km) from the coast.
There was a difference in who led Viking raids. In the 9th century Viking Age raids were led by men who may have been exiles in their own countries.[5] The later Viking raids in the late 10th century and early 11th century and were led by Kings.[5] Some of the early leaders tried to become kings with the riches they plundered from Europe and Russia. Some were successful but most were not.[5]
In Russia and the Mediterranean[change | change source]
The Vikings were called Rus by the peoples east of the Baltic Sea.[6] The Vikings who settled in Kiev and formed the first Russian state.[6] The Vikings (Rus) who served the Byzantine Emperors were called Varangians. They became the personal bodyguards to the Emperor and were called the Varangian Guard.[7]
Exploration[change | change source]
The Vikings traveled through Russia, the Mediterranean Sea, southern Europe, northern Africa and south-western Asia. Some Vikings sailed across the Atlantic Ocean via Iceland and Greenland and may have explored places in North America. The ruins of a Viking settlement have been found at L'Anse-aux-Meadows, Newfoundland.[8] Archaeologists used radiocarbon dating to find out how old the settlement was. Their tests gave them a range of dates from about AD 700 to about AD 1000.[9]
Language[change | change source]
Some words from the Scandinavian and Viking language (Norse) entered the English language. For example, the words skirt and shirt came from the word skyrta, meaning a tunic. As English changed, the semantics altered to give us the separate words 'skirt' and 'shirt' we know today. Skin came from the Norse word skinn (which meant to strip the meat off something). Some place-names in the areas the Vikings conquered are still in use.[10] For example in Yorkshire places ending with -thwaite meant a clearing,[11] and dale which meant a valley. The word thorpe meant new village, such as Scunthorpe.[12]
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- ↑ The dating of the 'Viking Age' depends on the location and how the term is used. Generally it is from about 700/800 to about 1030/1100 (later for some purposes).[13] In Ireland, the Viking age was from about 825–885 and 910–999.[13] In France from about 834–890 and in Southern England from the 840s–910.[13] In studying Vikings and their religion, the dates of the Viking Age are from about 800–1300.[14]
- ↑ Scandinavians typically were of mixed hair color; natural red hair color being roughly between 5-10% of the people who lived there. But men used the same harsh lye soaps as women did that had a bleaching effect making their hair and beards reddish blonde to blonde.[15]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Colin Hynson, How People Lived in Viking Times (New York: Rosen Group Publishing, Inc., 2009), p. 6
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 René Chartrand; et al., The Vikings: Voyagers of Discovery and Plunder (Oxford: Osprey, 2006), pp. 10–11
- ↑ Bonnie G Smith; Richard Von Glahn; Kris E Lane; et al, Crossroads and Cultures, Volume B: 500-1750 (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2012), p. 298
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Jill N. Claster, The Medieval Experience, 300-1400 (New York: New York University Press, 1982), pp. 138–140
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 P.H. Sawyer, Kings and Vikings: Scandinavia and Europe AD 700–1100 (London; New York: Methuen, 1982), p. 145
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Martina Sprague, Sweden: An Illustrated History (New York: Hippocrene Books, 2005), p. 37
- ↑ William L. Urban, Medieval Mercenaries: The Business of War (London: Greenhill Books, 2006), pp. 23–24
- ↑ F. Donald Logan, The Vikings in History (Oxford; New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. 82–84
- ↑ F. Donald Logan, The Vikings in History (Oxford; New York: Routledge, 2006), p. 86
- ↑ "Place-names in The Danelaw". viking.no. 2004 [last update]. http://www.viking.no/e/england/danelaw/epl-danelaw.htm. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ↑ "Thwaite Meaning and Definition". thinkexist.com year=2011 [last update]. http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/thwaite/. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ↑ "BBC - History - Legacy of the Vikings". bbc.co.uk. 2011 [last update]. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/conquest/after_viking/legacy_vikings_02.shtml. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Eric Christiansen, Norsemen in the Viking Age (Oxford, UK; Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002), pp. 7–8
- ↑ Thomas Andrew DuBois, Nordic Religions in the Viking Age (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), p. 5
- ↑ Mary Wilhelmine Williams, Social Scandinavia in the Viking Age (New York: Macmillan, 1920), p. 80–83
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My Favorite Band Played My Garage!
If you grew up watching MTV or listening to the radio in the '80s and '90s, chances are between losing yourself in the music and catching yourself in the commercials you heard about quite a few music-based contests for various record label and band promotions. Perhaps you may have even participated in a few by either trying to be the seventh caller in order to win tickets or entering your name, age, and address somewhere at AOL Keyword: MTV. This was a bizarre time in American pop culture when Nickelodeon's Super Toy Run, a sweepstakes where the ultimate prize was the chance to win all the toys you could fill into a cart in five minutes, raised the bar for excessive wish-fulfillment absurdity. There's no harder truth than the disclaimer "Many will enter, few will win." In the summer of 2002, because of one of these contests, I had the tremendous fortune to actually have my favorite band play my garage.
Chaz Kangas Flipp, My Mother, My Garage and Me.
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I'm originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota. For a music fan, it's an excellent place to grow up. Along with a plethora of diverse music stores and accessible concert venues, it's also home to some of the most fanatically beloved musicians of all time--Prince, the Replacements, Hüsker Dü, The Andrews Sisters, The Time, Atmosphere. With no shortage of options in front of me, my obsession in my formative high school years was a flashy band called Flipp.
New Yorkers may remember Flipp frontman Brynn Arens from his time in the '90s as part of Lower East Side favorites Rattling Bones. Or perhaps you have memories of wild nights with his earlier groups Obsession or Funhouse. In the mid-90s Arens happened to win a contest of his own when delivering his homemade video of his band Flipp performing a Sonic Youth-inspired cover of The Who's "My Generation" guerilla style to the MTV offices, inadvertently entering them the network's "Warming Up the Zombie" contest that saw the group open for White Zombie in Detroit. The band subsequently landed a deal with Hollywood Records.
I discovered Flipp as I was just entering my teenage years through their cameo appearance in the 1999 Troma film Terror Firmer. My interest in Troma coincided with the time that I began becoming excited about music, so going online and discovering these show-stopping showmen with catchy hard-rocking tunes coming from my hometown floored me. I was still a few years off from being old enough to attend their shows at various Twin Cities clubs, but luckily the group fancied enough public stunts like performing on the roof of a coffee shop and playing outside of a downtown post office on Tax Day, that an eager underage fan like myself could catch one of their shows.
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And what a show! With their stylish outfits, sing-along friendly anthems and additional mayhem like elaborate audience participation and cereal tossing being some of their trademarks, who wouldn't want to see that show up close and personal? Thanks to the band's 2002 essay contest, in honor of the forthcoming release of their album Volume on Everclear's Art Alexakis' Popularity Records, I had the opportunity to have the best seat in the house for a Flipp concert. Just outside my house, in fact, in my garage.
Rock band contests tend to be pretty out-there. From Pink Floyd giving away a plane to scoring a motorcycle trip with Aerosmith, even when you know what to expect, you never know what to expect. I asked my mother's permission before submitting my "Why Flipp Should Play My Garage" essay, and she gave her full blessing. Years of studying "TRL" allowed me to differentiate between appropriate expressions of fandom and creepy obsessive ramblings, so sticking to the "I really want this" blueprint and emphasizing the friendliness of the neighborhood put my essay in a pretty good light. Once I got the call confirming my essay had won, I made sure to ask my mother again. Being she was just as adamantly a local music fan at my age, citing how she used to follow hometown favorites The Trashmen and would have been thrilled had they played her garage, she gave it the OK. There would have been nothing worse than your favorite band showing up at your house and your parents saying you couldn't come out and play, so getting her approval was a must.
After I called all my friends (as in manually, one-by-one, on a landline) and told them the Earth-shattering news, it was time to ready the arena. I doubt in the entire annals of history there's any record of a teenager that excited to clean his garage. After three tireless days of sweeping, stacking, tossing and putting up a dartboard and some posters I received as part of Go Kart Records' street team, I felt my garage was good to go. Granted, the term "Garage rock" conveys something of an implied messy aesthetic, but I wanted to maneuver the Christmas lights and 4th of July decorations just right to maximize my garage's acoustics.
I hadn't woken-up that early on a Saturday since the days of watching "X-Men." Of course, while I was buzzing all morning, the adrenaline really began to kick-in once two giant trucks full of all the equipment for a major rock show pulled up to my driveway. This was going to be no garage unplugged, this was the real deal. Once the crew began unloading the amps, tapping into our circuit breaker, positioning the soundboard and readying the instruments, the reality of what an undertaking this was going to be really set in. In the blink of an eye, dozens of strangers looking to rock and confused neighbors began swarming the garage. When things looked ready to go, the band in full rock attire emerged from their transportation and asked "Where's Chaz?" After some quick introductions, they burst right into their opener "Clone Me" and the neighborhood block party was on.
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I have an 85 hunter 40 and it has a windlass installed by the original owner with no apparent mods to the box.
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A friend with a 37.5 just installed a windlass last week. He had to install it with the motor/drive in the V berth area and fashioned a small channel to lead the chain back into the chain locker. This also required a notch in the anchor locker lid.
It was not an easy install and he's continuing to have some trouble with leaks by the gypsy.. in his case unfortunately leaking into the V berth area.
In hindsight he may be wishing he'd taken an approach I've seen before.. cutting the anchor locker lid in half, permanently mounting the forward half and installing the windlass in that. Might be something you'll want to consider. Having that hardware hanging off the overhead in the V berth would irk me, probably end up building a box around it just to hide it.
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How are the picks so far? SU: 34-10 ... ATS: 17-17
Big 12 Game of
the Week
(4-1) vs. Texas
(4-1) 3:30
Why to Watch: There
are two ways to look at this. 1) It's a
battle of disappointed teams that blew
it last week against supposedly inferior
opponents, or 2), this is a battle of
two desperate teams looking to keep
flickering national title hopes alive.
Oklahoma collapsed late against Colorado
last week, but this is still a BCS-strong
team that might have simply been overrun
by a bad string of momentum and a few
big breakdowns in all phases. This is
still a Sooner team that obliterated
Miami. This is still a Sooner team that
had led the nation in scoring. This is
still a Sooner team must gear it back
up, of all of a sudden, Texas will have
a three-game winning streak in what had
become a one-sided series the other way.
Texas looked lousy over most of the
first four games of the season, mainly
getting by with timely defense and just
enough offense. After a horrible
performance in the 41-21 loss to Kansas
State, everything can change with a win
this week. If the Longhorns can pull it
off, then things open up nicely with
Iowa State and Baylor before hosting
Nebraska. No matter what, OU will have
to gear it back up next week against
Why Oklahoma Might Win: The Texas
offense is in disarray. QB Colt McCoy is
dinged up with a concussion suffered
against Kansas State, he isn't getting
enough time to throw, the running game
has been pedestrian, even with a nice
start to the year from Jamaal Charles,
and the receiving corps has been
mediocre. It's possible OU could get on
an early run and end this before the
first quarter is over, while Texas will
still have to battle hard if it gets up
big early. The Texas secondary, overall,
is playing better than it did last year,
but it hasn't faced anyone who can throw
it more than ten yards down the field.
OU leads the nation in pass efficiency,
and if the line can give Sam Bradford
time, the Sooner receivers should be
able to pick apart the Longhorn corners.
Why Texas Might Win: The Texas
defense can't be to blame for the rough
early start. No, the linebackers haven't
quite played up to snuff, and there
weren't any big stops against Kansas
State, but last week's loss is on the
offense and special teams. The run
defense has done a better job than it's
being given credit for, considering
teams like TCU, Arkansas State, and UCF
can only move the ball on the ground.
The game plan is simple. Stop the OU
running game, hope the defensive front
can at least hurry Bradford, try to win
the field position battle, and take
advantage of every opportunity.
Who to Watch: With all the stars
and all the NFL talent on display, the
spotlight is on two punters. Texas
couldn't stop Kansas State's Jordy
Nelson last week, and is netting a mere
28 yards per kick. The coverage teams
have to be better, but sophomore Trevor
Garland, who did a nice job against TCU
and UCF, has keep OU pinned deep. Texas
isn't likely to go on too many long
drives against any top defenses. OU
punter Michael Cohen could turn out to
be the star of the show if the Longhorns
are starting several drives inside their
What Will Happen: McCoy will get
batted around, John Chiles will see a
little bit of work, and Texas will
struggle to get points on the board. OU
won't blow up like it did against Miami,
but it'll pull away in the second half
after a mistake-filled first half.
CFN Prediction:
Oklahoma 34
... Texas 20
... Line:
Oklahoma -11
Must See Rating: (5 Paris on
Letterman - 1 Singing Bee) ...
Big 12 Saturday, Oct. 6
Kansas (4-0) at Kansas State
(3-1) 12:00
Why to Watch: Is
this the biggest football game in the
history of the two schools? If not, it
could turn out to be, as Kansas State is
flying high after beating Texas 41-21,
while Kansas started off its season
playing as well as anyone in America,
coming into the game ranked first in the
nation in scoring defense, fourth in
scoring offense, third in total offense
and third in total defense. We know
about the Wildcats, with a tough defense
and tremendous special teams, and we
know they're good enough hang with the
big boys. We still don't know anything
about KU, with its biggest win coming
over Central Michigan, but a win over
the Wildcats might mean a monster jump
in the rankings. Basically, everyone's
waiting to see what the team can do
against someone with a pulse. The Big 12
North is suddenly looking nasty, with
five real contenders and Iowa State, so
a loss will put a serious crimp in any
title hopes, while a win will be bigger
than it'll probably get credit for on a
national scale.
Why Kansas Might Win: Lost in the
win over Texas, and in the near-miss
against Auburn, was how the Kansas State
offense simply didn't work. Oh sure, it
looked great against San Jose State, and
put up huge numbers against Missouri
State, but the offense went nowhere
against Texas and there wasn't any
running game to speak of against Auburn.
It took a trick pass play to score on
the Tigers, and it took a whopping 58
pass attempts to get to 289 yards. The
KU secondary is still untested, but the
run defense has been a rock. If the
Jayhawks can avoid the big turnover, can
limit the big special teams play, and
can get up early, they should be able to
pull off the road win.
Why Kansas State Might Win: The
Wildcats are finding ways to get it
done. Whether it's a punt return here, a
key sack there, or a timely defensive
stop, they're finding ways to make
things happen. The offense might not be
humming, but the line has been great in
pass protection, while the new 3-4
defense has been generating consistent
pressure. For the first time all year
long, the timing of the KU offense will
be disrupted, and for the first time all
year long, KU will have to face a little
bit of adversity. Kansas State knows
what it can do in tough games with the
pressure on. Kansas doesn't.
Who to Watch: In a game like
this, things can change in an instant
with a big kick return, and these two
teams have the best return games in
America. Kansas leads the nation in
kickoff returns, averaging 32.78 yards
per try, led by Marcus Herford, who
averages 33 yards per try. Kansas State
got a kickoff return for a touchdown
against Texas from James Johnson, while
Leon Patton is the main man, averaging
26 yards per return. The real stars of
the KSU show are the punt returners,
leading the nation with a gaudy
27.2-yard average thanks to touchdowns
from Deon Murphy and Jordy Nelson.
Nelson has been on fire the last two
weeks, catching 27 passes for 326 yards
and three touchdowns, while averaging 57
yards per punt return.
What Will Happen: Kansas won't
give up the big turnovers needed for the
KSU offense to feed off of. This will be
a surprising defensive battle for about
a half, and then KU's offensive balance
will take over in the second half. The
Wildcats will start to press, will turn
it over a few times, and KU will pull
away late.
CFN Prediction:
Kansas 27
... Kansas State 17
... Line:
Kansas State -3
Must See Rating: (5 Paris on
Letterman - 1 Singing Bee) ...
Oklahoma State
(3-2) at Texas A&M
(4-1) 7:30
Why to Watch: All
of a sudden, the Big 12 South looks very
winnable. At least, more winnable than
it did last week at this time, when
Oklahoma was looking like a juggernaut
and Texas was still unbeaten. With huge
tests ahead for both teams, this might
be an elimination game in the Big 12
title race, and at the very least, it'll
be a vital win for one team, and the
heat will be turned up a bit for the
loser. No, Mike Gundy isn't on a hot
seat at Oklahoma State, but after making
the news for his tirade after the Texas
Tech game, he could use all the wins he
can get to put the focus back on the
field. A&M's Dennis Franchione has to
keep winning to save his job, but with
four road trips ahead in the next five
games, and the final six games against
certain bowl teams, including road dates
against Missouri and Nebraska from the
North, this is as big a game as it gets.
If you like running games, this is for
you, with A&M ranking fifth in the
nation on the ground and Oklahoma State
Why Oklahoma State Might Win: Texas
A&M can be run on. So far, everyone
outside of UL Monroe has tried to beat
the Aggies through the air, with decent
success against a secondary that'll give
up yards in chunks. If Oklahoma State
can start with the ground game, keep
hammering with it, and stay committed no
matter what, the home runs will
eventually be there for the taking. WR
Adarius Bowman should see just enough
single coverage to make a few big plays,
while the ground game has the better
potential for backbreaking runs, as
opposed to A&M's more grinding style.
Why Texas A&M Might Win: OSU is
just banged up enough to be a possible
problem against the run. LB Chris
Collins and DBs Andre Sexton and Martel
Van Zant are all going to play, but they
could wear down after getting hurt a few
weeks ago against Texas Tech.
Considering the two teams will try to
win on the ground, turnovers could mean
the difference, meaning A&M has a big
advantage. OSU gives it away, and the
Aggies take it away. Expect A&M to have
a plus-two in turnover margin, and for
the offense to capitalize on the
Who to Watch: A&M has its
blueprint on how to beat OSU from the
tapes of Troy's stunning 41-23 win. The
Trojans like to work on the ground game,
but QB Omar Haugabook was able to make
the passing game go by getting on the
move and creating time and space for
himself outside of the pocket. Aggie QB
Stephen McGee can throw, and while the
ideal option will be to pound the ball
with Jorvorskie Lane and Mike Goodson,
passing yards should be there for the
taking. McGee threw for 200 yards last
weekend for 237 against UL Monroe. If he
goes over 200, A&M will likely win with
What Will Happen: The two teams
will combine for at least 500 rushing
yards, but the A&M passing game will be
a bit more effective on third downs, and
OSU will get killed by two big
CFN Prediction:
Texas A&M
40 ... Oklahoma State 27
... Line:
Texas A&M -6
Must See Rating: (5 Paris on
Letterman - 1 Singing Bee) ...
Big 12 Week
Five Predictions, Part 2