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Hear the Image. See the Sound.

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Earth revolves around her axis in one day; the Moon orbits around Earth in one month; and Earth around the Sun in one year. How we engage in this rotational journey is unique to each of us. Forever within the common confines of 24 hour time, and forever seeking synchronicity; attempting to seek balance amongst the geophonies, biophonies, and anthrophonies of our worlds.  If one cannot physically and audibly connect with the natural world, how are we supposed to grasp its implications beyond cerebral understanding?

Third Space and the Authenticity of the Observed

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In a culture that attempts defiance of the realities that its people do not have constant meaning, recent regressive political paradigm shifts bring great concern for the emergent meanings that will be fashioned in the context of this new culture; what we will make things mean or signify moving forward.  Islamism or Africanism might substitute Orientalism, but its the upholding of such binary perspectives that masks a hybrid  nature of a colonial encounter and the postcolonial condition. According to Edward Said, “anyone who teaches, writes about, or researches the Orient is an Orientalist” (quoted in Sardar and Van Loon 1999, 109), and what they say or do is Orientalism. Orientalism is a cultural derivation of, primarily, the European and American search for self-identity. This search has led to a destructive and omniscient spread of colonial persuasion. Formulating a distinction between the “orient and the Occident ” results from the West’s changes in cultural constru...