Michele Pasin / Quotes

Confirmational reading

The use of scientific literature and databases is rapidly shifting from ‘exploratory’ reading to ‘confirmational reading’ to check elements of the hypotheses…

Prof.dr. B. Mons #scholarly-communication #reading #scientific-articles #communication #article #literature

Japanese culture

Nishida implies that the proper relation between cultures is parallel to that between “I and Thou.” In simpler language: “A true world culture will be formed…

Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy) #nations #culture #reading #West

Looking for a second opinion on self-experiment

I’ve got to get a handle on this, I thought. I’ve got to find some other, firsthand accounts of ongoing self-experiment with LSD. I can’t be the only person…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #research #reading

Moretti's distant reading

The New Critics gave us close reading, the engagement with the minute verbal nuances of a text, and the mode still thrives—Helen Vendler’s studies of…

The Limits Of The Digital Humanities, By Adam Kirsch | New Republic #close-reading #poems #text #Moretti #reading