Michele Pasin / Quotes

From vague to crisp ideas

During the course of writing this book, many of these ideas became more crisp, while others that started as crisp became more vague and fuzzy. The vague-to-crisp concept (stolen from computer scientist Leonid Perlovsky) plays a central role in this story. After researching and writing about these topics for more

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#writing #idea #thinking

The false analogy between the humanities and the sciences: humanistic thinking is creative and it doesn't proceed by experiments

If computers cannot think better than human beings, digital humanists are left with the argument that at least they can think faster—the John Henry argument…

The Limits Of The Digital Humanities, By Adam Kirsch | New Republic #humanity #idea #thinking #argument

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

Dogen sceglie di scrivere in giapponese

Tornato in Giappone, il monaco scrive un libello per elogiare lo zazen. Diversamente da Eisai, svincola lo Zen dallo Shingon. È coinvolto nella persecuzione…

Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena) #zen #writing #language #history

Example of objects

When I use my pen to ink marks onto this piece of white paper, the action of writing or 'inking' is an operation of distinction whereby I bring forth the…

Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana #words #distinction #action #objects #writing

La concisione dell'haiku

L’haiku merita una menzione speciale in un’opera sul pensiero giapponese. La sua concisione è la medesima del cha no yu e del No. La lievità dell’accenno ci…

Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena) #poetry #nothingness #aesthetics #writing