What if someone started shouting “Abundance!” in the overcrowded Scarcity Matrix and everyone suddenly woke up? What if, in waking, we immediately began the job of negotiating that abundance by coordinating the resources under our stewardship? Would we begin to imagine and create solutions to the intractable problems of our field that we simply cannot dream of in a zero-sum world? – See more at:
Tag: 04.23.14
Can Data Crunching Help Us Learn What Makes Books Good Or Bad?
“As a literary critic who says he aims to study books without actually reading them, Franco Moretti … [treats them] like data: taking massive digital archives of texts and using computers to scan them for patterns no human reader would have the time, attention or patience to sift out.”
How Much Gay Sex Should A ‘Gay’ Novel Have?
On one hand, many Alan Hollinghurst fans complained about how (relatively) demure his 2012 novel The Stranger’s Child was. On another, as Michael Cunningham observed about his The Hours, “I can’t help but notice that when I finally write a book in which there are no men [redacted], I suddenly win the Pulitzer Prize.”
How To Tell When Someone Is Lying
Their lips are moving? No, it’s not that simple, even though most people tell an average of three (usually tiny) lies in a ten-minute conversation. What’s more, studies indicate that most people’s ability to tell if someone is lyng is barely better than chance.
450 Years Of Juliet, And Women On Shakespeare
“When actresses were first allowed to perform publicly in England, they generally did not address the audience directly in a prologue or epilogue. As Sonia Massai notes in this anthology, when they did, their speeches stressed the ‘exceptional quality’ of the occasion.”
NBC Jumps On The Amazon Studios ‘Open Submission’ Bandwagon
“If you can’t get yourself a TV-talent-lit agent because, a lot of times, you have no credits, you’ve got no means of getting through the wall of the networks. It’s nice that a network is giving at least another chance for someone to work around that conundrum.”
Want Some Good, Practical Life Experience? Take An Improv Class
“Time will slow down during conversations and you will be able to hear them more accurately. This absolutely will happen to everyone who takes improv classes.”
Documentary Filmmaker Michael Glawogger Dies Of Malaria On Location
“Glawogger, whose oeuvre includes his documentary trilogy exploring the world of work – Workingman’s Death, Megacities and Whores’ Glory – as well as dramas such as Slumming and Kill Daddy Good Night apparently died in Liberia after contracting Malaria.”
Quentin Tarantino’s Suit Against Gawker For Leaking Script Thrown Out (For Now)
“Los Angeles District Court Judge John F. Walter ruled that the director’s lawyers had failed to demonstrate that anyone had actually seen the script as a result of the link. … But he is giving the team a second chance to prove their case, allowing them to refile with a bit more evidence by the end of this month.”
Here’s The Problem With Local Public Discussion Of The Arts
In truth I could substitute “transportation” or “education” or “economic development” for “the arts” in that sentence and it would still be true, but maybe my standard for “fruitful conversation” is impossibly high.