Kevin Kelly: AI dreamin’
Such stuff as dreams are made on I have a proto-theory: That our brains tend to produce dreams at all times, and that during waking… Read More »Kevin Kelly: AI dreamin’
Art and Culture
Sharky’s tips for travelling
These excellent tips were prepared by my sister, an inveterate* traveller and former guidebook writer, for her kids in advance of a road trip and… Read More »Sharky’s tips for travelling
Roots of Rock and Roll: Gus Cannon; Leadbelly; Blind Willie Johnson
I’ve been listening to a lot of early recordings and these three are favourites. Gus Cannon – He’s in the Jailhouse Now Gus Cannon was… Read More »Roots of Rock and Roll: Gus Cannon; Leadbelly; Blind Willie Johnson
Alasdair MacIntyre on virtue and practices (2): Internal and external goods
… the range of practices is wide: arts, sciences, games, politics in the Aristotelian sense, the making and sustaining of family life, all fall under… Read More »Alasdair MacIntyre on virtue and practices (2): Internal and external goods
Alasdair MacIntyre on virtue and practices (1): What is a practice?
In the Homeric account of the virtues — and in heroic societies more generally — the exercise of a virtue exhibits qualities which are required… Read More »Alasdair MacIntyre on virtue and practices (1): What is a practice?
Inheritance: unearned
For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do… Read More »Inheritance: unearned
The Unicorn of Despair: Tim Urban on intergenerational differences in defining success
“Sure,” Lucy has been taught, “everyone will go and get themselves some fulfilling career, but I am unusually wonderful and as such, my career and… Read More »The Unicorn of Despair: Tim Urban on intergenerational differences in defining success
Inappropriate
A list of some things that have been appropriated by some cultures from others Writing. Roman letters. Arabic numerals. The number zero. The horse (by… Read More »Inappropriate
Barbara Gail Montero on flow and sprezzatura
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
Cross purposes
Friar Francis: … to strange sores strangely they strain the cure. Come, lady, die to live: this wedding-day Perhaps is but prolong’d: have patience and… Read More »Cross purposes