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Drawing on his reading of Gregory Bateson and Jacques Derrida, Michael White became interested in the idea that the meaning we make of any experience comes from contrasting it with some other experience or set of experiences. No experience has meaning independent of other experiences. We make meaning through operations in which we say (or…
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[W]e may observe that the social sciences assume a doubly subordinate position, both under the hierarchy which is tending more and more to predominate, that of the natural sciences, and under the old hierarchy, today threatened by the rise in natural sciences and scientific values on the cultural stock exchange. Which explains why these disciplines…
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Tresset robot artist: Artist engineers robots to make art and save his own sanity. – Slate Magazine
Tresset robot artist: Artist engineers robots to make art and save his own sanity. – Slate Magazine will be reading this later. it’s gotten some traction.
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All these potential Edward Fords are evoked every time the script is read, like cinematic Schrödinger’s cats. But the instant any one director fixes it on film, the superpositioned versions will collapse and be gone forever. Michael Shannon, Terry Zwigoff, and the greatest unproduced screenplay: Edward Ford by Lem Dobbs. – Slate Magazine
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Edward Ford is one of the few works of art that tackles real, bone-deep, four-in-the-morning terrors. You might not have the talent you need. Success may no longer be available to you. Time will bury everything you care about. These are not things you want whispered in your ear on date night, and they don’t…
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But mostly just people temperamentally and emotionally ill-equipped for such a hostile and toxic environment. Curiously, there never seems to be any shortage of eager young worker drones queuing up to try their luck, although I detect that even their bright-eyed enthusiasm is staring to wane. Advertising was the sexy place to be in the…
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Add to this volatile mixture the powerful accelerant of emerging digital technology and all hell breaks loose. A Short Lesson in Perspective
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I think you’re all fucking mad. Deranged. So disengaged from reality it’s not even funny. It’s a fucking TV commercial. Nobody give a shit. This has come as quite a shock I can tell you. I think, I’ve come to the conclusion that the whole thing was a bit of a con. A scam. An…
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It takes a certain amount of courage, thinking out loud. And is best done in a safe and nurturing environment. Creative Departments and design studios used to be such places, where you could say and do just about anything creatively speaking, without fear of ridicule or judgement. It has to be this way, or you…
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Creative people are on the whole fragile beings, and letting each other down gently and quietly was the unwritten rule. A Short Lesson in Perspective