Andreas Vlach
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Andreas Vlach
Susan Sontag cited by Miller: “What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to see more, to hear more, to feel more.... In place of a hermeneutics of art we need an erotics of art.”
L. M. Sacasas • Readings and Resources
One of the things that surprised me the most was to see that for any piece of work being shared, designers would put together a keynote deck for it. It could be the smallest thing, like a quick look at the latest work progression, or big presentations, of course. At Apple, designers use the power of storytelling to influence others, instead of just
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Optimization alone can't get you novelty or interestingness.
Yet, the definition of art hasn’t changed in 100 years, as W. David Marx explained in our recent conversation: “The best way to understand art is against kitsch. Kitsch is things that are made based on existing expectations of your audience. Usually it appeals to sentimentality because that's a universal aesthetic reaction. But art is something tha... See more
“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.
"I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated ev
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“We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.”
—Virginia Satir
Angst ist das größte Hemmnis für Veränderung?
Weil sie uns lähmt. Wenn wir uns fürchten, werden im Gehirn die Weichen für Gefahrenabwehr gestellt. Manchmal antworten wir dann mit Aggressionen, manchmal flüchten wir, aber am häufigsten tun wir: gar nichts. Wir versuchen, den Schaden möglichst klein zu halten, indem wir nicht handeln.
Weil sie uns lähmt. Wenn wir uns fürchten, werden im Gehirn die Weichen für Gefahrenabwehr gestellt. Manchmal antworten wir dann mit Aggressionen, manchmal flüchten wir, aber am häufigsten tun wir: gar nichts. Wir versuchen, den Schaden möglichst klein zu halten, indem wir nicht handeln.
Sara Peschke • Stefan Klein im Interview: "Der innere Schweinehund ist ein irrer Mythos"
The thing people tend to forget about Fahrenheit 451 is that Bradbury is pretty clear about how by the time they started burning books no one was reading them anyway. That, not the censorship, is the really relevant part.
L. M. Sacasas on Substack
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