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Everyone is rightly focused on the music, but there is also medicine in reading the comments below. Everyone trying to put their emotions into words, and like myself, probably feeling they are inadequete. He has pulled good people together from all walks of life and all around the world.
Fred again.. and Brian Eno - Secret Life (Full Album)
Copley’s painting, in other words, is an embodiment of the delays that it was created to endure. If Copley had had instant access to his instructors in London, if there had been an edX course given by the Royal Academy, he would not have been compelled to paint the way he did. Changing the pace of the exchange would have changed the form and... See more
Jennifer L. Roberts • Harvard art historian Jennifer Roberts teaches the value of immersive attention | Harvard Magazine
In the midst of the unfolding crisis with work – a fundamentally spiritual problem – it seems to me that we desperately need new cultural metaphors to describe labour. What, actually, is this thing called “work”? Why do we do it? What does it afford us? What can’t it afford us?
For now, I find solace in the metaphor of work as trace. In a world... See more
For now, I find solace in the metaphor of work as trace. In a world... See more
Rebecca • [BIFFS vol. 2] Work as trace
“In our endeavor to understand reality, we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears its ticking, but he has no way of opening the case.”
-Einstein
When information is brushed against information the results are startling and effective. The perennial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms.
— Marshall McLuhan, The Medium Is The Massage
Reggie James • The Body As Mixer
Over the past few years, I’ve read many books about creativity, and it’s made me realize the sad truth that most people don’t read books on creativity. And so “to be creative” in the mainstream view is limited to making visual art or music or other artifacts. But when you read books on creativity, you discover a whole process that kindles a lot of... See more
Rebecca • [BIFFS vol. 2] Work as trace
The biggest lie you’ll ever hear as an economics student is that markets are efficient. In the most basic terms, the price of an asset supposedly arises at the equilibrium of quantity demanded and quantity supplied. To reach this equilibrium, both sides of the trade need to know what the other is doing. If an efficient market is a machine, then... See more