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SpaceXponential
We must learn to attend without language for what it is we are experiencing. There are so many worlds that we do not have language for, that perhaps humans will never develop language for, strain as we may. So many beings -- animals, trees, mountains, and rivers -- have no place in any sign system we might design, no expressive agency in any human ... See more
Jasmine Wang β’ attending to the other
This, I believe, is what happened to many of Americaβs key institutions in the mid-to-late 2010s. They got stupider en masse because social media instilled in their members a chronic fear of getting darted. The shift was most pronounced in universities, scholarly associations, creative industries, and political organizations at every level (nationa... See more
The Atlantic β’ Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
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βAnd Suits offers the following definition of what it is to play a game. He says, βTo play a game is to voluntarily take on unnecessary obstacles for the sake of making possible the activity of overcoming them.β β¦
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Epistemology and
"I believe," he writes, "that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, new friends." The point is that a cappella harnesses the creative intelligence of a whole group. By contrast, says Eno, high art is about separating geniuses from foot soldiers. "A cappella subverts that: it's highly composed music but th... See more
Stuart Jeffries β’ Surrender. It's Brian Eno
Quoting Krishnamurti: " I want to do a certain thing in the world and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies."
Charles Broskoski β’ Bohm Dialogue
