“Everyone has an anthropology,” wrote Walker Percy, right on the money as usual. “There is no not having one. If a man says he does not, all he is saying is that his anthropology is implicit, a set of assumptions which he has not thought to call into question.” James Parker, The Twee Revolution, The…
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Now this is what I call a teacher — the teacher happens to be Toole’s biographer. a confederacy of duncesCory MacLauchlinJohn Kennedy TooleLiteratureteaching
Good find — H/T Edmund Neill Below, my favorite version of one of my favorite pieces of music (To the Memory of an Angel) alban bergcolin davisgidon kremermusicTo the Memory of an Angeltwelve tone
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A snippet from yesterday’s funeral. JazzLionel Ferbosnew orleanssecond line
My favorite of Shannon’s short stories, probably because it has some philosophical issues nicely woven in. Percy, of course, deployed “what if” devices in his novels and non-fiction: One can’t read of that [Civil] War without playing the fascinating game of what-if . . . What if Jackson had lived through Chancellorsville? What if McClellan had…
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Drawing upon developments in social epistemology, behavioral economics, social neuroscience, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, network science and computational intelligence, this is a practical instantiation of knowledge transmission, liberality and emergent order. Today 95% of all motion picture content is viewed on a small or personal screen and it is being increasingly programmed,…
The wonderful Historical New Orleans Collection have posted this painting on their Facecrack page. Louis Armstrong is arguably the most famous New Orleans jazz musician of all time and he continues to inspire musicians and artists. His life and music will be celebrated at this weekend’s Satchmo Summerfest. This impressionistic painting by Jacques van Aalten, a…
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