Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone defended her dissertation this summer, and I was lucky enough to wangle an invitation. What follows are the thoughts of a wannabe social scientist/activist who imagines significant connections between the languages of math (especially quantum physics) and human words as they are spoken and written in intentional conversation with one another. You may decide that the t-shirt John … Read more...
Tag: Diss Me Baby!
“believe the data”
The U.S. Congress is working “to finalize the language of an agreement,” reports the NYTimes this morning, concerning “the bailout” of what has been called “the financial crisis” and/or “the economic crisis” in the United States.
Overthinkingit.com imagines “put[ting] Bruce Wayne in charge of the SEC.” Surrealism of The Dark Knight aside (compliance or complicity?), critique and … Read more...
mere wild threshing?
Walking the chilly streets of Antwerp this morning, I did not feel alone. Sure, my friends went bowling without me (such nerve!), but they teased me about it – which is almost as good as being there. 🙂
While some of those pals (you’ll have to guess which ones), may have still been roaring (like Fran, the Trader from Haven), … Read more...
surrealistic Belgium
Phillipe, our tour guide, said “Belgium is surrealistic” in reference to the language alliance of the German-speaking population in the east with the French-speakers of the south. Belgium, he explained, is “a small country with complicated problems.” The majority language speakers of Dutch are the Flemish in the north. I will need to devote a single blog entry concerning what … Read more...
Diss Me, Baby (inscribing life with story)
“A
life without stories
would be no life at all.
And stories bind us, do they not,
one to another, the living to the dead,
people to animals, people to the land?”
life without stories
would be no life at all.
And stories bind us, do they not,
one to another, the living to the dead,
people to animals, people to the land?”
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (2004, p. 189)
… Read more... waving my light saber
Robin, Tim, Rachel, and Hari were unaware that we were celebrating an exertion of The Force, accomplished earlier today with the incomparable technical help of Brion.
My first Flash animation was added to Reflexivity, partly building upon an idea implanted by The Lord of the Sky, that I really should try to make my … Read more...