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December 2011
18 posts
A Village After Dark by Kazuo Ishiguro
There was a time when I could travel England for weeks on end and remain at my sharpest—when, if anything, the travelling gave me an edge. But now that I am older I become disoriented more easily. So it was that on arriving at the village just after dark I failed to find my bearings at all. I could hardly believe I was in the same village in which not so...
RESEARCH
The definition of research dissected using Wikipedia and Apple Dictionary:
RESEARCH can be defined as the search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, with an open mind, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories. The primary purposes of basic research (as opposed to applied research)...
Tonight I had a coconut jelly bean and goat cheese dinner at the office. Someone played a couple tunes on the piano, but after that I was alone.
I waited for a while at a downtown bus stop and chewed minty gum that let the cold air into my mouth. Split beer that once was hidden in a to-go soda container, the kind you get at gas stations, dripped down the bus floor as I boarded. A single red...
The means of production of these postwar descendants of modernism are, as McGurl argues, profoundly different from those of their forbears. Gone are the days of Ezra Pound in the cafés of Paris, socializing with Dadaist and Surrealist artists like Marcel Duchamp and literary figures like Basil Bunting and Ernest Hemingway (who taught Pound — rather unsuccessfully — to box). After World War II, the...
In spite of the numerous, more or less disingenuous endorsements of the democratic potential of the Internet, the links between it and capitalism look a bit too tight for comfort to concerned political minds. It has been very tempting to counteract the naive technological utopianism by pointing out how computer networks are the material and ideological heart of informated capital. The Internet...
To Foreign Lands
I heard that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle, the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy; Therefore I send you my poems, that you behold in them what you wanted.
—Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
History becomes the myth of language.
Michel de Certeau
November 2011
15 posts
Plans
GARDEN CITIES OF TO-MORROW Ebenezer Howard
THE RADIANT CITY Le Corbusier
THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES Jane Jacobs
“His aim was the creation of self sufficient small towns, really very nice towns if you were docile and had no plans of your own and did not mind spending your life with others with no plans of their own. As in all Utopias, the right to have plans of any...
Ten Things I Have Learned Milton Glaser