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• Twitter Links Borges: The Task of Art

  The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all these things into symbols, into music, into something…

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Twitter Links Anatomy of Norbiton: labyrinthine

  Some deaths are linear; others are labyrinthine. In some the journey of the soul is straight, direct, if necessarily troubled. Thus it crosses water,…

  March 11 2012, 4:12am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Link Manguel, Muse of Impossibility

  One day in December 1919, the twenty-year-old Jorge Luis Borges, during a short stay in Seville, wrote a letter, in French, to his friend Maurice Abramowicz in Geneva, in which,…

  October 21 2010, 3:52am | Comments

• Link The Mind's I

  Now available for free online: The Mind's I: Fantasies and reflections on self and soul (ISBN 0-553-34584-2) is a 1981 book composed and arranged by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel…

  August 16 2010, 3:30am | Comments

• Link Borges on Pleasure Island

  Little is quite as dull as literary worship; this essay on Borges is thus happily doomed. One finds oneself tempted toward learned-sounding inadequacies like: His work combines the elegance of…

  July 1 2010, 2:17am | Comments

• Link Technologies of Culture: The Archive

  "'To read what was never written.' Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new…

  February 24 2010, 8:38am | Comments

• Link The Wall and the Books

  by Jorge Luis Borges I read, in past days, that the man who ordered the construction of the nearly infinite Wall of China was that First Emperor, Shih Huang Ti,…

  December 13 2009, 4:17pm | Comments

• Link Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man

  Directed by Philippe Molins - Although honors came late in life to Jorge Luis Borges, his unique worldview had begun to emerge even as a child. This program examines the…

  August 6 2009, 1:23pm | Comments

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• Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island
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• A Labyrinth (No Minotaur): Goldsmiths Postgraduate Degree Show 2011
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• RAWTunes.exe 10.4.2
• Thoughts on art practice PhDs
• And There It Was
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