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That Within Which Passeth Show (on Isomorphic Mimicry)

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 8th April 20226th April 2022

QUEEN GERTRUDEGood Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.Do not for ever with thy vailed lidsSeek for… Read More »That Within Which Passeth Show (on Isomorphic Mimicry)

Intuition plus Iteration: George Saunders on Writing as Editing

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 6th April 20226th April 2022

Make it better. Make it more specific. We often discuss art this way: the artist had something he wanted to express, and then he just,… Read More »Intuition plus Iteration: George Saunders on Writing as Editing

Monkeyminds; or, Fiddlesticks

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 4th April 20224th April 2022

… and so it seems to me that in this most twenty-first of centuries we live our lives in a state of unending distraction. The… Read More »Monkeyminds; or, Fiddlesticks

Number in Time

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 1st April 20221st April 2022

The quadrivium followed the preparatory work of the trivium, consisting of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. In turn, the quadrivium was considered the foundation for the… Read More »Number in Time

Technology (23): Elizabeth Eisenstein on how the printing press created new networks and sparked further innovation

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 30th March 202230th March 2022

Here’s Eisenstein again. There’s a lot at work: The combinatorial innovation that was the printing press created further opportunities for cross-pollination by breaking down old… Read More »Technology (23): Elizabeth Eisenstein on how the printing press created new networks and sparked further innovation

Tomáš Halík on Modernity, Optimism and Naked Hope

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 28th March 202226th March 2022

Traditional notions of hell paled in comparison with the inventions of 20th-century totalitarian regimes: Hitler’s and Stalin’s concentration camps. And compared to technological miracles and… Read More »Tomáš Halík on Modernity, Optimism and Naked Hope

Recommendation: Two Conversations

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 25th March 202225th March 2022

The Ezra Klein Show: Timothy Snyder on Ukraine Good on history and the context for what’s going on in Ukraine. Great on language and the… Read More »Recommendation: Two Conversations

Boardroom: Lessons from Surfing (4) – Tao, Timing, Vectors

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 23rd March 202224th March 2022

The way of the thing “Tao” refers to the inner nature or natural tendency of things. For example, water tends to flow downhill: that is… Read More »Boardroom: Lessons from Surfing (4) – Tao, Timing, Vectors

Writing and Reading as Technology (12): Elizabeth Eisenstein on How the Printing Press Changed Books

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 21st March 202223rd March 2022

I’m working my way through Elizabeth Eisenstein’s excellent The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, an abridged version of her two-volume The Printing Press as… Read More »Writing and Reading as Technology (12): Elizabeth Eisenstein on How the Printing Press Changed Books

Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 18th March 202216th March 2022

Less then five minutes long. Entertaining and true. (His Slaughtehouse-Five is the only successful anti-war novel I’ve read).

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