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Writing itself is fantasy
The symbols may have been laid down on paper or the screen in whatever order but when we read, we read the words one at a time, one after another – linearly. Writing, especially of fiction, is an act of … Continue reading
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Tagged Ariekei, Arrival, China Miéville, Dune, Embassytown, Flatland, Frank Herbert, Harry Potter, heptapods, Higgs boson, higher dimensions, hypersphere, language, linguistics, nonlinear storytelling, nonlinearity, Orson Scott Card, sphericity, three dimensions, time, varelse
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The mad world
Kate Wagner writes in The Baffler: What makes industrial landscapes unique is that they fascinate regardless of whether they’re operating. The hellish Moloch of a petrochemical refinery is as captivating as one of the many abandoned factories one passes by … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics, architecture, art brut, HR Giger, industralism, infrastructural tragedy, JC Hallman, Jean Dubuffet, Kate Wagner, picturesque theory, psychology, varelse, world-building
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Debating the business of beauty in ‘Dreams of a Final Theory’
In his book Dreams of a Final Theory, Nobel-Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg discusses the various aspects of the journey toward a unifying theory in fundamental physics. One crucial aspect is the aesthetic of such a theory, and Weinberg’s principal contention … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics, beauty, critical exponents, Dreams of a Final Theory, framling, randomness, renormalization, Speaker for the Dead, Steven Weinberg, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, thermal demagnetization, utlänning, varelse
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