abstraction

5 min read 2022-02-22 16:05:08

Don’t Look behind the Curtain! (Please)

In a previous blog, I talked a bit about the hazards of coding to an implementation and not a specification, based on 1980s home computers. While the

3 min read 2022-02-02 16:00:27

From close-up photography to digital world-building, contemporary artists are always building on the legacies of minimalism, abstraction and land

13 min read 2021-12-16 00:04:10

Recently I’ve been reading the writings of the American philosopher William James. You won’t see much discussion of his work among philosophers

3 min read 2021-12-15 00:10:58

We humans have remarkable minds, minds more capable in many ways that in any other animal, or any artificial system so far created. Many give a lot

5 min read 2021-12-08 05:05:00

LOS ANGELES — In sacred geometry, the “vesica piscis” symbol describes the almond shape nestled between two overlapping identical circles. The

10 min read 2021-12-07 12:00:00

Editorial Collective Note: This is a new introduction to alienation that replaces our earlier introduction written in 2006. It’s part of our

10 min read 2021-12-07 12:00:00

Editorial Collective Note: This is a new introduction to alienation that replaces our earlier introduction written in 2006. It’s part of our

10 min read 2021-12-07 12:00:00

Editorial Collective Note: This is a new introduction to alienation that replaces our earlier introduction written in 2006. It’s part of our

10 min read 2021-12-07 12:00:00

Editorial Collective Note: This is a new introduction to alienation that replaces our earlier introduction written in 2006. It’s part of our

1 min read 2021-12-06 22:42:40

Even though tourists appear to be physically present in Nature or Culture, in effect one might call them ghosts haunting ruins, lacking all bodily

1 min read 2021-11-22 01:00:00