The painter might be at a loss to paint a picture of an idea, especially if he is not familiar with conceptual art.
Gilbert Harman, “The Intrinsic Quality of Experience”, in Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 4, Action Theory and Philosophy of Mind, 1990, pp. 31–52.
“sometimes selection is like kissing”
Shapiro, Larry, and Elliott Sober. 2007. “Epiphenomenalism—The Do’s and the Don’ts”, in Peter Machamer and Gereon Wolters (Ed.), Studies in Causality: Historical and Contemporary, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh. [PDF]
WHEN BOTH ARE STRANGERS
Let us say the young Lakes from Chicago are about to move to Strangetown, where John Lake will manage the new branch office his firm has just opened. Business is the usual reason for moving to a new community. John will, of course, meet a few people through business. If the town [...]
Félix Fénéon spent part of the year 1906 writing unsigned news briefs for the French newspaper Le Matin. More than a thousand of these have now been translated and published by The New York Review of Books Classics as Novels in Three Lines. A selection—
Some drinkers in Houilles were passing around a pistol [...]
I was recently lucky to see (with Huw and Mike) the exhibition Modernism: Designing a New World 1914—1939 at the Corcoran in Washington DC. One part of the exhibition that I particularly enjoyed was the graphic design of the Russian modernists, and in particular the work of El Lissitzky, who I knew from his many [...]
[...] once you have been in an academic career for twenty years certain chores are given you and your range of freedom becomes restricted. Demands of all kinds are made at the same time as family pressures begin to mount and you feel that at that midway point in your life your personality is being [...]
Presently he heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler, a bird he had never identified, had been in search of twelve years, which always, when he saw it, was in the act of diving down into a tree or bush, and which it was vain to seek; the only bird that sings [...]
Some writers are so incomparably great that even critics cannot dull them. A recent review by Charles Simic of Elizabeth Bishop’s Edgar Allan Poe and The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments provides a perfect example. The more Bishop he quotes, the less you want to read Simic; in the end, the natural reaction is [...]
I remain profoundly puzzled by what I have said, despite the fact that I think I am correct.
Stuart Kauffman, Investigations, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000, p. xii.
For K. M. K.,
still my favorite eschatologist
Thomas S. Kuhn, The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change, Chicago University Press, Chicago, 1977, p. v.
Match the following stretches of text:A
Demurrer breathtaking ambuscade cyclorama. Bladderwort acquittal a abed buddy archimedes. Condemnate coin clothesman ban dime cursive deduce amadeus cohort. Catheter breeches agnew burma bullhead cutlet billie.
B
For example, the heavy grammar felled the frontier. An individual and overlapping ambiguity developed. Astute [...]
Two quotes from an article about a secondhand bookstore in Kansas City which is burning books in protest at the decline of the industry. The quotes are from the two owners of the store.
“This is the funeral pyre for thought in America today,” Wayne told spectators outside his bookstore as he lit the first batch [...]
At one point, Leslie Shatz, the sound designer, described Mailer’s perfectionist quest to capture the sound of a punch in the face. “Norman said, ‘The sounds of punches in movies are all phony,’ ” Shatz recalled. “He wanted me to record his own punches. He was a boxer, of course. So we were in my [...]
Kevin Oberlin watches television in Cincinnati with his wife.
Nicole Walker divides her time amongst several places. You can find her in her car, her house, her office and occasionally at the grocery store.
Via Diagram.
Hi Future people! Hello from the Past! It is amazing all the human in the Universe are on Earth!
Anonymous, Wikimedia Fundraising Pledges.
A Haiku Composed of Three Quotations from the New York Times on the Occasion of The Democratic Party Winning Both Houses in the United States of America Midterm Elections.
Is it too early?
Rather like a “real” person,
The salesroom burst into applause.
From a Times article about Jonathan Littel’s Les Bienveillantes, the 900-page debut novel which just won the Prix Goncourt—
Gallimard, which received the manuscript under a French pseudonym and planned to publish only 12,000 copies, has used paper reserved for the new Harry Potter book to print thousands more.
(Time to write the first draft: 112 days).
[...]A partial list of things which scared H. P. Lovecraft—
Sexuality, procreation, the human body, invertebrates, marine life in general, temperatures below freezing, fat people, people of other races, race-mixing, slums, percussion instruments, caves, cellars, old age, great expanses of time, monumental architecture, non-Euclidean geometry, deserts, oceans, rats, dogs, the New England countryside, New York City, [...]
True, I was almost omniscient (yet not entirely) when I was twenty years old, but, as you know, people grow stupid when they grow older. I was much less omniscient when I was twenty-eight, and still less now.
Leszek Kolakowski, “My Correct Views on Everything: A Rejoinder to E. P. Thompson,” originally published in The Socialist [...]
A chapter from the novel that decided Patrick White’s Nobel Prize was submitted to a range of publishers and agents in Australia, and rejected by each. The reaction to the fallout from Peter Craven is spot on. See here.