Category: words

  • Two Hundred Fifty Things an Architect Should Know

    Two Hundred Fifty Things an Architect Should Know an admirable and poetic list

  • Men, Writing, Etc.

    plaidadder: So, while for some reason everyone here is engulfed in one of tumblr’s periodic debates about whether or how to police writing done largely by women for women for free, in the world of contemporary fiction there’s a meltdown going on right now over men who get paid for writing literature, and the men…

  • azspot: “Throughout Teilhard’s lifetime, Catholicism still adhered to the picture of an essentially static and unchanging cosmos. During the last century, however, Teilhard became one of the very few Christian thinkers to acknowledge that the Darwinian revolution and contemporary cosmology … [have] important implications for theology. In the first place, … the sciences have shown…

  • azspot: “To worship was formerly to prefer God to things, relating them to him [sic] and sacrificing them for him. To worship is now becoming to devote oneself body and soul to the creative act, associating oneself with that act in order to fulfill the world by hard work and intellectual exploration.” — Pierre Teilhard…

  • nerdgasrnz: lore: you can replenish your health by…: drinking water, breathing fresh air, eating a wild strawberry… you can restore your mana by…: listening to folk music, breathing fresh air applies to this one as well… taking a walk… I suddenly feel less pessimistic about these suggestions for improving mental health purely bc it’s worded…

  • Detroit: Become Human (2018) -Exploitative Sci-Fi for Gamers

    videogamesincolor: The Following article contains major spoilers for Detroit: Become Human Folk can’t quite believe DBH’s player base loves Markus by an 80% plus margin. It’s like Grey’s Anatomy doesn’t exist or something. On some level, Quantic Dream’s video games following Beyond: Two Souls are going to be a mechanical refinement of their gameplay, and…

  • Lost John Coltrane Recording From 1963 Will Be Released at Last

    Lost John Coltrane Recording From 1963 Will Be Released at Last azspot: On Friday, Impulse! will announce the June 29 release of “Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album,” a full set of material recorded by the quartet on a single day in March 1963, then eventually stashed away and lost. The family of Coltrane’s…

  • Signs are what produce a body

    lacan-psychoananalysisaspraxis: Signs are what produce a body – and the artist knows it well – if he doesn’t produce his music or his art or his sculpture, he would be, quite simply, ill or not alive. Symbolic production’s power to constitute soma and to give an identity is completely visible in modern texts. Julia Kristeva…

  • whitneymuseum: Zoe Leonard’s Homage is an ode to art historian Linda Nochlin, who asked the now famous question, “Why have there been no great women artists?” in her iconic 1971 ARTnews essay. For this site-specific installation, pieces of the text from Nochlin’s iconic essay have been placed on walls where Whitney staff offices are visible…

  • prostheticknowledge: YouTube Artifacts Latest AR exhibition from MoMAR (who ran a guerilla show earlier this year) returns to the Pollock Room at MoMA New York featuring works by David Kraftsow, responsible for the YouTube Artififacts bot that regularly generates animated images from distorted videos: Welcome to The Age of the Algorithm. A world in which…