“Computers, after all, are just shaky towers of nested abstractions.”
Tag: 11.13
The Time J Edgar Hoover Had Sartre And Camus Investigated
“Hoover needed to know if Existentialism and Absurdism were some kind of front for Communism. To him, everything was potentially a coded re-write of the Communist Manifesto. That was the thing about the Manifesto–it was not manifest: more often it was, as Freud would say, latent. Thus FBI agents were forced to become psychoanalysts and hermeneuts… Thus we find intelligence agents studying scholarly works and attending lectures.”
Art That Defines An Age – Do We Have Any?
“What, then, from our own era, will be remembered as the art that defined our age? Will the explosion in production be reflected in a boom in epochal works? Or will it all pass through a sieve so coarse that only one nugget remains? And if so, which one?”
How El Sistema Is Changing Music Around The World
“Each country has distinctive ways of fulfilling the shared principles of El Sistema-inspired work; one could argue that each program site (of which there are more than a thousand around the world) develops distinctive ways of following the Venezuelan beacon.”
Authors Reviewing Their Own Books? Thus It Has Ever Been (Even In The 1800s)
Reporting from London back to his native land in 1822, the American nationalist James Kirke Paulding claimed that nine of 10 reviews in British periodicals “originate in personal, political, and religious antipathies or attachments” and “it is almost as common for an author to puff his own book in the magazines, as for a quack doctor to be his own trumpeter in the newspapers.”
The Royal Tenenbaums Had Nothing On Anjelica Huston’s Real Family
In an excerpt from her new memoir, the Oscar-winning actress and scion of Hollywood royalty recounts her early years in Ireland and London, alternately isolated on a country estate and surrounded by the famous and glamorous.
How Our Understanding Of Things Is Transferred (An Artistic Approach)
The art historian David Joselit has described paintings as deep reservoirs of temporal experience–“time batteries”–“exorbitant stockpiles” of experience and information. I would suggest that the same holds true for anything a student might want to study at Harvard University–a star, a sonnet, a chromosome.
Jury Decides Against Actress Who Didn’t Want Her Age In IMDb
“The case has raised questions about the importance of youth in the entertainment industry. But Pechman, who presided over the civil trial, barred the plaintiff’s side from making broad claims about ageism in Hollywood.”