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I’m confused. Denis Dutton in Edge Magazine: This experience taught me something crucially important: that New Guinea standards for greatness and for excellence are as far as I could determine the same as those of knowledgeable European curators, connoisseurs, and collectors… the people who really know the good work in museums, who are very deeply familiar [...] To be perfectly honest, the Shadow Robot Company sounds like an evil corporation from a 1990s anime – maybe Mobile Suit Gundam: Hoxton. ON THE OTHER HAND (wait for it, that phrase becomes pretty important shortly) they actually design and make robot components, so the name is fairly appropriate. Plus, two of my friends work [...] The Shape of Music by Dmitri Tymoczko covers fascinating ground in suggesting that the human affinity for mathematics is bone-deep, as long as the bone we’re talking about is the malleus. Tymoczko offers a jumping off point for a wider discussion about the way that humans receive the world while talking about the way chord [...] While reading this post, you should be listening to Let the Good Times Roll by Layo and Bushwacka! I tend to think that the Singularity is merely the ne plus ultra of technotopianism, a trend which must be combated wherever it is found, but I avoid talking about it for fear of drawing down [...] In a Guardian interview, James Lovelock explains why he thinks that there’s no point in most of the environmental activities that we currently pursue. Or indeed, no point to most of the activities that we pursue. … the current canon of eco ideas… [is] premised on the calculation that individual lifestyle adjustments can still save the [...] |
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