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“Nothing beautiful is indispensable to life.” – Theophile Gautier, Mademoiselle de Maupin. On the 21st of May 2005, David Foster Wallace, an American novelist, gave a speech to graduate students at Kenyon College. “There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way,” said Wallace, […]
Having Friends On The Other Side
“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune “I always wanted to do a full psychic reading cause I was curious,” says Emilie Lonkvist, 21, a Media Culture Communication student at Steinhardt. “So […]
Do Mi Sol Dooo
“We have created a civilization with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.” – Edward O. Wilson, The Social Conquest Of Earth. Ron White, author of How Computers Work, compares their history to mutation and natural selection that carry organic species to new shores. Each step in their evolutionary maze is the innovators’ response […]