confessionals
Confessional – Wikipedia The priest and penitent are in separate compartments and speak to each other through a grid or lattice… The priest will usually s...
Category: ideas
epistemology, philosophy, theology, religion
the selfie market
New Apple patents seek total dominance of selfie market – The Guardian, January 13, 2015 But on Tuesday, a series of Apple patents surfaced online – and one of ...
change in job description
google location history, 30 day time period
like prepared microscope slides
Dustin Yellin Psychogeographies “Yellin’s figures grow from thousands of antique clippings assembled in dense, tangled cellular silhouettes, as if man him...
The campaigns
I was reading about the person who inspired the poem Ozymandias when I came upon the headline: “First Syrian Campaign.” Huh, I thought, so he also w...
Who let the bots out
Today I had occasion to contact roughly two dozen friends via the message or chat tool on Facebook. When first contacted, two of them replied by asking if I was...
The Management of Feelings
soundtrack Feelings by Morris Albert art Standard Loneliness Package by Charles Yu Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman Brave New World by A...
a rage for rigor
TO THE HYPHENATED POETS Richer than mother’s milk is half-and-half Friends of two minds, redouble your craft. Our shelves our hives, our selves a royal je...
Chestbursters vs. Engineers
Like many, I found the sequence in which the new Ripley “hacks” a sexist computer to give herself an abortion to be the best and truest to form. The...
Mad Men 2013
About 15 years ago I saw Tyler Brule, then just two years into Wallpaper, give a presentation that would forever change my understanding of art and commerce. He...
Tapas are a delicious and nutritious reason to distrust Libertarians.
Spanish tapas are said to have been invented in the 13th century when the Spanish king Alfonso X The Wise required that all bars serve a plate of cold cuts alon...
actor and spectator
in the actor-spectator relationship, both participants experience self-knowledge by “trading places” with another person. for the actor, self-knowle...
Butterfly and hurricane, tick and $2bn trading loss
A tick > Lyme disease > absent boss > riskier trades > $2bn trading loss.
Scrapbooks made for sharing
From the Wikipedia entry on the origins of the scrapbook in the 15th century and their ongoing function as self-portraits: From the standpoint of the psychology...
the vessel of exploration
For Europeans and their former subjects, the making of planet Earth – a process better known as globalization – begins after the Renaissance, as newly empowered...
Blue Valentine: the love story as murder mystery
Surely, for every lover who says “I love you” (which is to ask “Do you love me?”) there is another who asks “What went wrong?̶...
What if rigging elections is the extent of Putin’s power?
A fascinating argument by Stephen Holmes and Ivan Krastev on the symbolic function of rigged elections in Russia: Thus, by far the most important political role...
Panic: single working moms, unemployed single men, and high finance.
One way to explain the moral panics of our day: a society governed primarily by old, rich white men of European descent apprehends an economy driven by single, ...