Ideas from Notebook, III

Cryptic species; William of Occam; “Buridan’s Ass”; Alberto Giacometti; Charles Demuth; Cezanne’s preoccupation with Montagne Sainte-Victoire; Back to Africa and the Nation of Islam; Nunn-Lugar; John Harshberger; Francis Alÿs on Cezanne and seeing*; ethnomusicology; Indo-European and ethnolinguisitics; schulzi bats in Suriname*; the Innocence Project; firestick, swidden and fallow; Bedouins, refugees, migrants and internally displaced peoples; “firewood crisis”; “Big Five” extinctions*; El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center; Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury.