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Saturday, March 31, 2007

Danny Rozin's Easel





Richard Rorty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

"Explaining rationality and epistemic authority by reference to what society lets us say, rather than the latter by the former, is the essence of what I shall call ‘epistemological behaviorism,’ an attitude common to Dewey and Wittgenstein." [Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979).p.174]

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Tom Montag:
"Metaphor can take you places you never imagined you'd go. Metaphor and a little snatch of narrative. A hot bowl of soup. A crust of dark bread. Go."

Claudia Keelan:
"We have to change our language for our culture to become a better one...I really strongly believe in the notion of Negative Capability that Keats spoke of. The poet can have no identity. A poet has to be constantly filling in for other things...For the I to become the you."

A R Ammons
"not so much looking for the shape
as being available
to any shape that may be
summoning itself
through me
from the self not mine but ours."

This conjunction of poets courtesy of William Stobb's erudite congenial and poignant podcast "It's Hard To Say"

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Metabolomics Toolbox

"...metabolomics...[studies]...the small molecule metabolites found in an organism...metabolomics offers a unique opportunity to look at genotype-phenotype as well as genotype-envirotype relationships...only a quarter to half of endogenous human metabolites in blood or urine have been positively identified."


How to Write a Scientific Paper

Abstract

We (meaning I) present observations on the scientific publishing process

which (meaning that) are important and timely in that unless I have more

published papers soon, I will never get another job. These observations

are consistent with the theory that it is difficult to do good science, write

good scientific papers, and have enough publications to get future jobs.


The Writer's Writing Guide: Attitude

Writing is a slow learning, through content, style, process, and daily evidence of your tenacity, of who you are, what you value, and what you want from life.


meanderings

Contemporary Art Blogs - absolutearts.com - "MAKING PROFOUND ART" by Andrew Wielawski
These were the words of the Dreamer, who told me that the future doesn’t exist, because it hasn’t happened yet, and the past is gone. The world as we know it doesn’t exist, either, because it is only our own projection of chemical electrical impulses onto the screen of our brains. It is not the events as they happened, only a time delayed and heavily filtered rendition of them.

With a philosophical view like this, it is only a matter of taking things one step further to see how much freedom we have through our art.

Monday, March 26, 2007


Magnum Photos - In Motion

essay archive

Guantanamo -- Paolo Pellegrin


ZoneZero




"As we move forward with all these new tools to explore story telling in the digital age, societies in most parts of the world are moving to severely restrict their use."
Non-proliferation needs to be updated to non-existence

Think gentle
Repeal nuclear weapon states (NWS)
All systems are unstable
Typorganism

Wednesday, March 21, 2007


Flow Visualization


Percentage of American adults held in either prison or mental institutions in 1953 and today, respectively: 0.67, 0.68
Percentage of these adults in 1953 who were in mental institutions: 75
Percentage today who are in prisons: 97
Harper's Index, April 2007
L'attente, the waiting / Flussgeist 1 (2007) Gregory Chatonsky
Le DETAIL / The DETAIL / Series / Incident.net / 2006

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