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• Link The 'Basic' Plots in Literature

  Q: I’ve heard there are only 7 (or 5, 20, 36…) basic plots (or themes) in all of literature. What are they? A: People often say that there are only…

  March 9 2010, 4:35pm | Comments

• Link From Eternity to Here

  The arrow of time points in one direction only, from past to present to future. Now there's a fact—rather like Wittgenstein's observation "A is the same thing as A"—that is…

  January 12 2010, 3:15am | Comments

• Link The World Question Center 2010: How is the…

  Read any newspaper or magazine and you will notice the many flavors of the one big question that everyone is asking today. Or you can just stay on the page…

  January 8 2010, 10:55am | Comments

• Link Digital Technology is Not the End of Artistic…

  The Wall Street Journal’s Terry Teachout thinks future generations will consider itunes, youtube, and Kindle a more important cultural development than anything it distributes. He’s right to point out the…

  December 23 2009, 4:49am | Comments

• Metafilter Innovative Book Designs Innovative Books: I am looking to compile a list of the most innovative uses of the book format. Books that break the mould in their layout and design,…

  November 1 2009, 5:37am | Comments

• Link Luis Camnitzer, ALPHABETIZATION, Part Two: Hegemonic Language and…

  In all the traditional approaches to pedagogy, both in art and in literacy, the possibility of perceiving the transitional nature of the space produced by text or image—the common space…

  October 27 2009, 11:51am | Comments

• Link 42 Essential 3rd Act Twists

  Dresden Codak's handy comic-chart of '42 Essential Third-Act Twists' for writers.

  October 21 2009, 3:19pm | Comments

• Link Atheism: class is a distraction

  For some reasons it seems to be anathema to say that there might be an intrinsic reason for the correlation between educational level and the rejection of religion: atheism takes…

  October 15 2009, 8:14am | Comments

• Link An Interview with W. Brian Arthur

  Technology so pervades our culture that it's sobering to consider how poorly we understand it. How do new tools and techniques arise? What principles guide their evolution? And how does…

  October 4 2009, 4:26pm | Comments

• Link Fictional Stimulus

  Fictional Stimulus is a reading experience for people who like books and are curious about the future of literature in the digital world. It's an introductory taster for those new…

  September 28 2009, 8:54am | Comments

• Metafilter Offsetting sea level rise: An engineering idea of Biblical… The seas are rising. Climate change has made it inevitable. I have a strange question... Assuming that world sea-level rises by 1 metre over the next hundred years…

  September 18 2009, 8:12am | Comments

• Link HOW TO: Write a Novel Using the Web

  Though you’ll still have to do your writing using the old fashioned method — one word at a time — web applications and social media have made the process of…

  September 17 2009, 12:27am | Comments

• Link 3quarksdaily Philosophy Competition (Judged by Daniel Dennet)

  So, here it is, the final list that I am sending to Professor Dan Dennett, who will select the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prize winners: (in alphabetical order by blog…

  September 13 2009, 8:37am | Comments

• Link On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of…

  by Umberto Eco

  September 8 2009, 9:15am | Comments

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  July 12 2009, 3:54pm | Comments

• Link Dual Perspectives Article

  Not long ago mass media was about the only kind of culture there was. The lucky few creative works that made it into general circulation were what copyright law was…

  June 16 2009, 3:08pm | Comments

• Link How Nuclear Radiation Can Change Our Race

  This is a remarkably uninformed article about what effect a huge nuclear war would have upon the human race. The author seems to think that the radiation would create a…

  June 6 2009, 9:36am | Comments

• Link Presentation Zen: Making presentations in the TED style

  TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked…

  May 12 2009, 3:06pm | Comments

• Writing for 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Grapholectic Thought and the…

  Of course my mini-history of scientific revolution should not be taken itself as a “truth”. I draw it as a parable of progress, as…

  March 23 2009, 2:38am | Comments

• Writing for 3quarksdaily Writing (Hyper)text and Image

  A Polyptychal Discursion: This text, designed with its own concerns in mind, diverges on many trajectories, crossing over itself, intersecting its arguments and statements…

  February 23 2009, 8:07am | Comments

• Metafilter New theories of Mimesis (in digital/hypertextual/ hypermedial cultures) I am looking for writings on mimesis in regards new, digital, hypertext and hypermedial technologies and cultures. I am following the redefinition of mimesis. From Plato's disregard of…

  February 16 2009, 8:09am | Comments

• Link Simon Biggs

  Website and interactive portfolio of artist

  January 30 2009, 9:02am | Comments

• Writing for Spacecollective The Total Library Project

  Books that redefine reality - or - How to redefine the book...

  January 29 2009, 3:58am | Comments

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