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Category Archives: philosophic-discourse
Creation and meaning and House of Cards
[No spoilers ahead] One episode of the new season of House of Cards has some Tibetan monks make a beautiful colored-sand mandala in the White House. Like all good mandalas (and puzzles, by the way) a mandala -as a pure … Continue reading
Art & Science and Teresita Fernández
I just learned (What It Really Takes to Be an Artist on BrainPickings) that artist Teresita Fernández, recipient of a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship for her work (see her monograph, Blind Landscape) made an outstanding commencement speech at Virginia Commonwealth University … Continue reading
Where Do I Come From?
In this TED video, Jim Holt, philosopher and author of the book “Why Does The World Exist?“, which I read and loved, says that the God solution to the title riddle is a bit unsatisfactory. Thus, he proposes an intriguingly … Continue reading
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New media, monopolies and democracy (and Google)
The quasi-last class in my New Media course was the occasion to close a discourse begun with the article The Web We Lost by Anil Dash. The message was essentially that it is quite difficult, for people who were not … Continue reading
The not-so-World-Wide Web
This post is inspired in way by Anil Dash’s article “The Web We Lost“, a concept I find very troublesome and that I am sharing with my students of #inf115 (New Media & Social Nets). But there’s one extra reason … Continue reading