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Recent Posts
Design and Science: The Life and Work of Will Burtin
Design and Science: The Life and Work of Will Burtin. E. Roger Remmington and Robert Fripp. Lund Humphries, 2007 I’ve just read Robert Fripp1 and Roger Remington’s illustrated biography of designer Will Burtin, Design and Science: The...
Auster on Roth on the Future of Books
Paul Auster, novelist and poet, talks about why the novel, and the book, will persist in the digital age. The complete interview with Auster is available at Big Think. Auster was responding to Phil Roth’s gloomy prediction of the novel’s...
Better Explainations for Uncanny Valley
In to the Uncanny Valley Joe Kloc, SEED Magazine Online http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/uncanny_valley/P2/ In Seed Magazine, Joe Kloc reports on PNAS findings that monkeys exhibit uncanny-valley-like-rejection of computerized/robotic monkeys...
Le Guin on the So-Called Decline of Books
In Harpers, Ursula Le Guin writes about how the end of books will not happen any time soon. She considers how book readers these days are readers by choice, since reading is no longer the activity of requirement, popular entertainment, or status that...
Sacred and Profane: A Survey of Christian Film Criticism
Into the Dark: Seeing the Sacred in the Top Films of the 21st Century By Craig Detweiler Baker Academic, 2008. 320 pages Through a Screen Darkly: Looking Closer and Beauty, Truth, and Evil in the Movies ByOverstreet Regal Books, 2008. 340 pages ...
Interview with Lars Von Trier
I just found this extensive interview with Lars Von Trier from a few years back, in Sight and Sound, a translation of an interview in Die Ziet: Die Zeit:Â Lars von Trier, who in your opinion has the power in an interview situation, the interviewer or...

