Chad Aaron Hall
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Chad Aaron Hall
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We’re all propagandists now.
Jennifer Mercieca • We Are All Propagandists Now
I wake up early, brew fresh coffee in the kitchen, pour some in a big mug, sit down at my desk, and boot up my computer (there are times, I must
admit, when I miss the days of manuscript sheets and my fat Montblanc fountain pen). Then I sit there and muse about what to write that day. Such moments are pure bliss. To tell the truth, I have never
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The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
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By the 1980s, Acker had also developed a rigorous editing method: She said that she rewrote every book eight times (!), each time with a different criteria in mind: “once for sound, once for meaning, once for ‘beauty’, once for structure, once in the mirror for performativity etc.”
Mason Currey • Kathy Acker Was Against Creativity
One group of these are so-called insight problems. Insight problems generally cannot be solved by a step-by-step procedure, like an algorithm, or if they can, the process is extremely tedious. Instead, insight problems are characterized by a kind of restructuring of the solver’s approach to the problem.
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Movie talk is mimicking a character from a movie or series—or possibly even from a book—as a way to present oneself as socially appropriate. The level of imitation can go further than just repetition of words though. For instance, autistic people that are less able to function may mimic the words, while a more functional autistic person practically... See more
Autism & movie talk | Embrace Autism
Van Neistat is using podcasts to silence voices in his head.
People elect performers rather than genuine representatives because they think our social and economic system will continue to function without human intervention, like a solar-powered street light.