Matt McManus’ latest on this topic with a special shout-out to Peter. Stay tuned for Matt’s forthcoming book which goes into this topic in great detail.
Jesse Norman on Weber’s ‘Politics as a Vocation’
In History Today.
Perception As Controlled Hallucination: Predictive Processing and the Nature of Conscious Experience
A Conversation with Andy Clark (video, audio and transcript).
Labour of Lust
Part two of Nick Lowe’s power pop phase dropped 40 years ago.
Group Minds and Natural Kinds
A close-grained discussion of this vexed issue by the very excellent Rob Rupert.
Marguerite Yourcenar
Born on June 8th. Becoming the Emperor: How Marguerite Yourcenar reinvented the past.
Then she came upon the drafts of a novel about Hadrian that she had begun when she was twenty-one and had later put aside. …. She was forty-five when she went back to Hadrian.
Three Ideas of the University
The very excellent James Alexander in The European Legacy. Oakeshott’s The Voice of Liberal Learning freely available here.
Noel Annan commented that Michael Oakeshott’s “was the finest evocation of the ‘the idea of the university’ since Newman’s; and more subtle and persuasive”.
Mac “Dr. John” Rebennack
Gone.
Todd Alcott’s Pulp Fiction Mashups
Check out Todd Alcott‘s other talent on Etsy. Another digital mashup artist that is doing interesting work is Josephine R. Unglaub whose work has already been featured and will again be featured as a Cosmos + Taxis cover.
What started as a distraction for the LA-based screenwriter and graphic artist is now a continuing project with hundreds of entries. Alcott describes the “cultural mashups”, made using digital-altering software, as a conversation between the songwriter, the original designer, himself and the viewer. “All four bring a wealth of associations,” he says. “Most of the songs I pick I have strong emotional ties to. “The graphics are much more fun than screenwriting, where you work on a script for years and it never gets made into a movie”. — The Guardian
Martha: born on this date
Trailer for Stéphanie’s documentary (Martha’s youngest): an insider’s take of her mum entitled Bloody Daughter.
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