Learning Aesthetics

“Once Knecht confessed to his teacher that he wished to learn enough to be able to incorporate the system of I Ching into the Glass Bead Game.  Elder Brother laughed.  ‘Go ahead and try,’ he exclaimed. ‘You’ll see how it turns out. Anyone can create a pretty little bamboo garden in the world.  But I [...]

…which confounds past modeling, but that’s what you get from reading Gibson. Which relates, somehow, to an upcoming discussion of social media, or at least: That makes me think of… One of the things that we’re likely to hear is that, “Social Media is not new, or perhaps News; humans, being mammals, have always been ‘social [...]

or at least makes it clear in its own way that we’re not as smart as we need to be Here’s a link to the NYT article that comments on the above image, we won’t say explains it. What occurs to me in that what it really demonstrates is that things are way complicated. Arguably [...]

1.00  There’s an apocryphal story about John F. Kennedy  touring the Houston Space Center and being introduced to one of the employees who turned out to be part of the custodial staff and we assume somewhat obviously not one of the brightest crayons in the box.  “What do you do here?” the President ask. “I’m [...]

Balinese say, “We have no art, we do everything as well as possible,” which is sometimes translated: “We have no art, we just do the best we can,” or occasionally, “…we just try to get by.” Of course “everything” undoubtedly had a smaller compass when they first said, “We have no art…etc.” And at the [...]

Well, I have a new job, or maybe just new responsibilities. I’m managing the University Service Center or help desk or however you want to think of it. It’s about reinventing whatever it was and making it work; by my lights that means making something new. It’s not first time I’ve been in this situation, [...]

Because something is happening here But you don’t know what it is Do you, Mister Jones? I think when most of us started to listen to Bob Dylan we assumed that we were part of some community that shared a certain hipness denied to the rest of society. Maybe so, but it kind of missed [...]

…or this is probably headed somewhere. This particular thread started with a post in IF:book ‘looking at libraries‘. Though you should keep in mind that it is thoroughly haunted my last post and Stephen Downes well taken point, “All authentication fails.” Actually it may have started with Chris Mesina’s Thoughts on Data Portability over on [...]

sort of: A month or so ago I changed web hosts and didn’t bother to migrate the Learning Aesthetics Blog . Whether this was sheer sloth or a form of auto critique remains questionable. However, anything profound was lost forever, unless some idea has enough merit to resurface here. It’s a new year and that [...]

The SightWork nexus is going to be somewhere between really-slow and non-existent for the next couple of  weeks.  I’m upgrading pretty much everything including shifting over to the Dvorak keyboard.  We’ll be back better than ever.