-
Life after Papyrus
lareviewofbooks: SWATI PANDEY on Stephen Greenblatt’s Lucretius. Ancient iconography (XIV) of Medieval Scribe and Titivillus, literary demon and “patron demon of scribes” Stephen GreenblattThe Swerve: How the World Became Modern W.W. Norton & Company, September 2011. 356 pp. Books. They have an almost alarming corporeality. Stephen Greenblatt, esteemed Harvard professor and founder of New Historicism,…
-
The e-book, by eliminating all variations in the appearance and weight of the material object we hold in our hand and by discouraging anything but our focus on where we are in the sequence of words (the page once read disappears, the page to come has yet to appear) would seem to bring us closer…
-
The e-book, by eliminating all variations in the appearance and weight of the material object we hold in our hand and by discouraging anything but our focus on where we are in the sequence of words (the page once read disappears, the page to come has yet to appear) would seem to bring us closer…
-
My collaborator has suggested that the cultural semiotics of nerd is not an effective lure, not an attractor, for young latino males (in the US) who might otherwise explore STEM fields. Bill Gates’ financial success is an insufficient model. The age group we are looking at is ten years old. These young latinos are acutely…
-
My collaborator has suggested that the cultural semiotics of nerd is not an effective lure, not an attractor, for young latino males (in the US) who might otherwise explore STEM fields. Bill Gates’ financial success is an insufficient model. The age group we are looking at is ten years old. These young latinos are acutely…
-
AUSTIN KLEON: William Carlos Williams on the freedom of keeping your day job
AUSTIN KLEON: William Carlos Williams on the freedom of keeping your day job austinkleon: In his Autobiography, William Carlos Williams recounts what led him to pursue medicine as a career: No one was ever going to be in a position to tell me what to write, and you can say that again. No one, and…
-
AUSTIN KLEON: William Carlos Williams on the freedom of keeping your day job
AUSTIN KLEON: William Carlos Williams on the freedom of keeping your day job austinkleon: In his Autobiography, William Carlos Williams recounts what led him to pursue medicine as a career: No one was ever going to be in a position to tell me what to write, and you can say that again. No one, and…
-
thenewinquiry: Contemporary strivers lack the tools that people in the past used to differentiate themselves from their peers: They live in a post-virtue, post-religion, post-aristocracy age. They lack the skills or inspiration to create something of genuine worth. They have been conditioned to find all but the most conventional and compromised politics worthy of contempt.…
-
thenewinquiry: Contemporary strivers lack the tools that people in the past used to differentiate themselves from their peers: They live in a post-virtue, post-religion, post-aristocracy age. They lack the skills or inspiration to create something of genuine worth. They have been conditioned to find all but the most conventional and compromised politics worthy of contempt.…
-
A passionate kiss acts like a drug, causing us to crave the other person thanks to a neurotransmitter called dopamine. This is the same substance involved in taking illegal substances such as cocaine, which is why the novelty of a new romance can feel so addictive. Dopamine is involved in sensations of reward, making us…