Michele Pasin / Quotes

Vico's verum-factum principle

Much of the aesthetic and constructivist concerns here can be seen in the early writings of Vico whose 'verum-factum' principle - that what is true is what we ourselves have made or constructed

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#writing #principles #concern

Conspiracy theorists

Why does any of this matter? My concern is with the ultimate fate of knowing, of seeing the difference of what you can know and what you wish for. . . . The…

Why The Moon Landing Could Not Have Been A Hoax — It Wasn’t Technologically Possible To Fake It « The Scholarly Kitchen #differences #people #concern #fate

Psychiatrist rick strassman experiments with ayahuasca

The most active alkaloid in ayahuasca is DMT, the tryptamine whose study initiated the current wave of psychedelic research and also occasioned some of the…

Erik Davis - On Psychedelics #concern #religion

The circle of concern

We each have a wide range of concerns—our health, our children, problems at work, the national debt, nuclear war. We could separate those from things in which…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #concern #control #attention

The circle of influence

As we look at those things within our Circle of Concern, it becomes apparent that there are some things over which we have no real control and others that we…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #control #power #concern

Book and encyclopedia as antagonistic technologies

Even if Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopedia is entitled Dic- tionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, its ambition is to be much more than…

How Books Will Become Machines #book #writing #world #Encyclopedia