Hat-tip: The Whippet #168 These excerpts are from Montero’s article Against Flow, in Aeon magazine. Recommended. Against the flow; or, Improving Everything When I was… Read More »Barbara Gail Montero on flow and sprezzatura
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You may be convinced we somehow assembled the original cast of The Matrix along side the ghost of Wilford Brimley to record one of the… Read More »Eye on AI: Ice Ice Matrix; ABBAtars
What are you doing to improve your taste? I’m sure you have your own ideas, but here’s what I’ve been thinking about: to educate your… Read More »The skill – taste gap: educating taste
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Without … a place in the social order, a man [in a heroic society such as Homeric Greece or Saga Iceland] would not only be… Read More »Ends and Meanings (3): Alasdair MacIntyre virtue, mortality and story in heroic societies