Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
I explained that I was chiefly interested in transgressive ideas, in the people who formulate them, and how they are received by the various disciplines – religion, art, literature, science, mathematics and so forth. ‘And Laurence Arne-Sayles is the transgressive thinker par excellence. He crossed so many boundaries. He wrote about magic and preten
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“The Big Ship” by Brian Eno
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
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Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
an explorer of the unknown and as yet unseen.
Patricia Lustig • Strategic Foresight
copacetic.
Nick Cave • Faith, Hope and Carnage
In March 2008, Stewart Brand, the famous Merry Prankster and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, stepped out of the Hawaiian jungle and gave me a cryptic recommendation before fading back into the shadows:
Daniel Suarez • Daemon
Humankind is deeply ill. The species won’t last long. It was an aberrant experiment. Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.