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Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
Scrivere e tornare a studiare
Scrivo. Da quando ho fatto downshifting ho pubblicato un romanzo, un saggio, un certo numero di articoli su giornali e riviste, e ho lavorato parecchio sui blog dove scrivo. Sto iniziando il mio nuovo romanzo, una storia di pirati che si svolge nel XVI secolo. Ci studio da due…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
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…
Hoping to leave readers more confused
than a year, and thinking about some for at least fifteen, I am more confused now about digital technology and consciousness than when I started writing. Likewise, after you read this book I hope you are more confused about computers, numbers, mathematics, the Internet…
How Books Will Become Machines
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 a dictionary. The encyclopedia has aimed since its genesis at being in continuous expansion in order to en- compass the…
Leielui (italian Edition) (de Carlo, Andrea)
O vivi o scrivi
Gli sembra sempre che la parte più interessante e sottile e contraddittoria resti fuori dalle sue descrizioni e dai suoi dialoghi, persa come adesso vanno perse le ragioni dei passeggeri che a ogni fermata scendono dal vagone e corrono via. Sa benissimo che per non perderla…
Scrivere come alibi per l'autoesclusione
Lui pensa che potrebbe restare all’asciutto a parlare con il cartolibraio e con la ragazza dagli zigomi larghi a puro scopo dimostrativo, per confermare a se stesso e agli altri di essere interessante agli occhi di qualcuno, non avere certo bisogno di mendicare attenzione…
Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
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
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 inked words on the page. So 'inking' as an action is the operation of distinction I can consensually enact and the inked…
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
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 introduce a un altro mondo: la struttura 5/7/5 rappresenta l’equivalente delle luci soffuse nella casa da tè o…
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 del Tendai ai danni di tutte le correnti innovative del buddhismo, quali la Terra Pura e lo Zen. Deve abbandonare il…
Tre alfabeti, una visione del mondo
La prima impressione che si ha alla lettura di un testo giapponese è la confusione, cioè l’impressione della contaminazione tra due mondi. I caratteri cinesi (kanji) convivono con una sorta di alfabeto autoctono, hiragana, la cui forma scritta, pure, deriva dal cinese. La…
Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History Of Digital Humanities - Los Angeles Review Of Books
Dh is about the promotion of project-based learning and lab-based research over reading and writing
What Digital Humanities is not about, despite its explicit claims, is the use of digital or quantitative methodologies to answer research questions in the humanities. It is, instead, about the promotion of project-based learning and lab-based research over reading and writing…
Steven Pinker On His Sense Of Style : Nature News & Comment
Writing style
The main difference between good writing and turgid mush — academese, corporatese, and so on — is that good writing is a window onto the world. The writer narrates an ongoing series of events which the reader can see for himself, if only he is given an unobstructed view. In…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
We need the diaries of explorers
I have felt myself to be in the position of geographers or explorers of an earlier age, as they pushed into terra incognita. I am still not sure myself of exactly what happened, or of what I saw. In the words of Terence McKenna: The early approach with psychedelics was the…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Unity of agency needs stable intentions
No matter how jumbled my brain is in some ways, unity of agency only requires a reasonably stable set of intentions, and the ability to carry them through. By a combination of retrieval, reconstruction, adaptation and thinking anew, I am creating this book, and that has helped…
The Elements Of Style - Wikipedia
Vigorous writing is concise
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences…
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
Say it so great-aunt Gertrude can understand
The teacher who most affected me in my undergraduate years made a similar comment to Mead’s in his existential philosophy course. “This course,” he was known to say, “attracts those who want a podium. If you have something to say . . . it best be said in a way that my…
Mead: explain it to a twelve-year-old
Anthropologist and teacher Margaret Mead said in Redbook magazine in 1963, “If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the University and laboratory until one gets a…