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likeafieldmouse: King Minos’s Labyrinth “In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth (Greek λαβύρινθος labyrinthos) was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at the palace Knossos. Its function was to hold Minos’s son, Minotaur, a mythical creature that was half man and half bull. Daedalus had so cunningly made…
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bearhatalice: thedoubleclicks: robothugscomic: New comic! Yeah, I might have watched a movie and gotten kind of mad. This is seriously a trope I’d love to never see again though. the lego movie the matrix pacific rim now that I’ve learned I can’t unsee it The more I think about it, I am not so sure…
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conradtao: In a Mattress, a Lever for Art and Political Protest […] It is hard to fathom the effect “Carry That Weight” will have as it proceeds — on Columbia, on Ms. Sulkowicz, on the consciousness of sexual assault on campus, or on the thinking of people who encounter her performance. But it seems certain…
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Our entire culture is oriented toward machines, not living systems, and what defines a machine is precisely that it’s meant to do exactly what it’s told and nothing else. Push this button, and that happens; turn this switch, and something else happens; pull this trigger, and the buffalo falls dead. We’re taught to think of…