Category: spectacle

• Total Art, Total War

  

  We are still fighting the Civil War and the First World War, with no end in site.

  Michael Watson PhD

  October 16, 2025

  Arts, autumn, Climate Change, creativity, Cycles, denial, Drought, Grief and Fear, Landscape, Nature, Racism, Terror, spectacle, spirituality, Stories, writing writers

  Ballets Russes, depersonalization, economics, History, Hollow Men, Modris Eksteins, philosophy, poetry, politics, religion, T.S. Eliot, The Rites of Spring, World War One

• Mid-July

  

  Midsummer brings celebration as resistance.

  Michael Watson PhD

  July 20, 2025

  Arts, creativity, First Nations, Grief and Fear, Healing, performance, spectacle, spirituality, Stories, Summer

  Cape Verde, flowers, garden, gardening, healing, parades, stories, Summer, travel

• Two Ways of Dreaming

  

  A dim, chill morning. Yesterday the sun came out in the afternoon and the temperature rose to 70F. It was lovely. Later this afternoon we will have additional much needed rain. We send prayers to all who are experiencing the harm of too much rain this weekend. For the moment the disaster unfolding in the…

  Michael Watson PhD

  April 5, 2025

  Climate Change, creativity, First Nations, Healing, Landscape, Nature, Shamanism, Social issues, spectacle, spirituality, spring, Stories

  climate change, Dreaming the World, environment, History, Indigenosity, nature, Settler-colonialism, spring, travel

• Culture of Spectacle

  

  We are in the midst of a foggy, drizzly, raw March day. Today it seems unlikely that April nears. For a short time yesterday the sun came out and it was warm enough to enjoy being out, so I rode my disability scooter over to the library to pick up a couple of books. By…

  Michael Watson PhD

  March 29, 2025

  Cycles, denial, spectacle, Stories

  climate change, colonialism and control, environment, History, nature, photography