Posted inCommentary History Poetry
Novels verboten? Music, maybe okay.
The invasion of Ukraine, repression, censorship, Covid-19 ... "at a time like this" how do readers and creators discover what's right and just to do?
Posted inLiving Technology
Wendell Berry on scale and limits
"No doubt there always will be some people willing to do anything at all that is economically or technologically possible..."
Posted inBook Review History Technology
Beauty and “no-thingness”
A meditation on beauty and a book review of Patrick Bringley's All the Beauty in the World. Beauty could save us from AI.
Posted inHistory Technology
The research paper is dead. Research record and provenance, too?
When it comes to AI, just saying no isn't an option anymore.…
Posted inCommentary Poetry Technology
Noise, art, and AI. A musician considers the function of art
Marc Ribot responds to a question on whether AI can create. So,…
Posted inLiving
Perfect(ing) the French baguette, kinda. (Actually it’s a bâtard)
A second perfect bread. Or, more accurately, a bread close to perfection. A lesson in life through baking.
Posted inTechnology
Two kinds of beauty. Brief excerpt from The Score
"Object beauty" and "process beauty": brief excerpt from C. Thi Nguyen's The Score
Posted inLiving
2026 resolutions BINGO
I've got an empty card for the year. I hope I get at least one BINGO!
Uff Da! Yeah, You Betcha.
Lutefisk does have a distinctive odor, but it's a unifying force, too.
Posted inLiving Poetry Technology
Fiat ars, pereat mundus
Can one use art in times when it feels so useless? Should one do art at all?