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In the chapter titled Author as Producer of Walter Benjamin's Reflections, he introduces Sergei Tretiakov's 'operating writer', and how his/her mission, as opposed to the 'informing writer', is "not to report but to struggle; not to play the spectator but to intervene actively". This description is of the author not as activist--because...

I point at the small cardboard structure on the train's table. The guard stands blankly and...

While looking for our book club books at Counterpoint I came across Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur...

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Readers: Do you think in hypertext? The era of the linear tome is dead, information is a web -...

Today I was reading an interesting style website and they report that analyses: Robot love...

Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler. --Albert Einstein E usually does not equal M C^2. Thats only when its not moving. The USA government learned that terrorists keep more secrets and try to have more privacy than people who are not terrorists. Therefore secrets and privacy are bad, so the USA government proceeded to build...

September through December 2010 was my first semester of education since I left high school in 2007. In one of my courses, Contemporary Issues, I wrote a paper (a very short one) entitled "Why Computers Do Not," which was meant as a counter to the hopelessly superior article by Marvin Minsky of MIT "Why People Think Computers...

(The following is an excerpt from 'Contact' by Carl Sagan) “Do Buddhists believe in God,...

Nary a post goes by when I don't feel compelled to share a relevant book. I'd like to propose a collective recommended reading list, and in beginning this list I'll paraphrase the first page of my first recommendation. It's from a book called "The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Many people, when they see an immense...

If you haven't read any Buckminster Fuller, you need to get on it. I don't think you...

Via NewScientist.com 1. Farthest North - Steve Jones, geneticist 2. The Art of the Soluble -...

Your average 'alternative' 'underground' 'cult' summer booklist will name conservative corkers like William Gibson, Hunter S. Thompson, Ken Kesey, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Pynchon, Kathy Acker, Hubert S. Selby or Brett Easton Ellis. A 'real' underground list might add snotty punk-fashionistas like Stewart Home or Henry Rollins. But if you have read...

This post is meant for those who are in the strange habit of finishing what they start. All others...

I am a bad reader. Slow, ill-disciplined, with a wandering mind. I will rarely manage a...

I added a comment to this post today, about photographs of libraries. I reproduce it here. I...

I was thinking about Spaceweaver’s post about immortality and remembered that in the early...

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i am desperate to find participants from the arts, design, architecture etc. communities....

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The material and the spiritual are so closely entwined in the human mind that making meaning for...

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As I'm sure many of you are aware, the COS (Church of Satan, not be confused with Cult of...

I havn't been fortunate enough to finish reading this book yet. Regardless, this book has provided...

I've just discovered Twine.com, a socially semantic web organiser of data, in 'twines'. Apparently...

I rarely share CNN stuff; they suck in journalism. But this little window into Shishmaref, Alaska...

What is the meaning of meaning? We can view meaning at two levels. First, it is a cognitive...

In this short (8 minutes) video, some people give out their short response to the question: What we...

The Gutenberg Bible, printed in 1455, was thought to be the world's first printed book, until a...

“Whether the cloud of alternatives that is yet hidden in our eyes; Whether the soft snow that...

Tonight, I see the Internet as a sort of controlled state of dreaming: directed, curated......

Western intellectual tradition looks at Body and Mind as separate things existing in different...

The following are thumbnail versions of my bound book since the full size would not fit and would...

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In homage to a thinker who's storytelling indeed creates realities. Excerpts from the short story...

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Documenting Graphic Language I'm going to post on this space a series of graphic design work that I think is relevant to be documented. I started with Lou Dorfsman's work. The idea is post relevant images that exemplify how the terrestrials communicate apart from vocal language.

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“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh....

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In aggregation I left the islands of leaving with nothing to say. Had I stayed to learn what...