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Furtherfield Contributions Resolution Disputes: A Conversation Between Rosa Menkman and Daniel Rourke

April 13 2015, 5:50am | Comments
Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia
Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments
Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments
Bookmark Borges, Paradox and Perception - NYTimes.com
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. books and literature, Borges, Jorge Luis, Heisenberg, Werner, Hume, David, Philosophy, physics, writing and writers

May 12 2013, 3:37pm | Comments
Bookmark Jorge Luis Borges Uses Zeno’s Paradox to Describe Kafka’s Literature | biblioklept
I once premeditated making a study of Kafka’s precursors. At first I had considered him to be as singular as the phoenix of rhetorical praise; after frequenting his pages a bit,…

April 18 2013, 4:54pm | Comments
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Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain

November 11 2012, 9:23pm | Comments
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The Making of The Rings of Saturn

April 5 2012, 3:02am | Comments
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Borges: The Task of Art

March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments
Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: Jorge Borges Jorge Luis Borges delivers the Norton lectures at Harvard, 1968: The Riddle of Poetry :: The Metaphor :: A Poet's Creed

April 28 2011, 2:47pm | Comments
Bookmark 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, almost…

October 21 2010, 3:52am | Comments
Bookmark 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 mathematical…

July 1 2010, 2:17am | Comments
Bookmark 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, who…

December 13 2009, 3:17pm | Comments
Bookmark 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 life…

August 6 2009, 1:23pm | Comments
Metafilter Ask MeFi: Was Schroedinger first or Borges: Which came first, the cat or the mirror? Did Borges read Schroedinger?The arithmetical system of Tlön "states that the operation of counting modifies quantities and changes them from indefinites into definites."The sequence of history makes it possible. Borges's omnivorous reading habits and academic/social prowess help the probability. Yet Schroedinger's initial obscurity…

April 2 2009, 11:32pm | Comments

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