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dive into mark/October 4, 2002
I love this sort of stuff. This Mark does thorough items and is ALWAYS in the Daypop Top 40 Links.
J. G. Ballard – www.contemporarywriters.com
J. G. Ballard – www.contemporarywriters.com Critical Perspective
‘We live inside an enormous novel’, observes Ballard in the introduction to his most controversial novel Crash (1973), ‘The fiction is already there. The writer’s task is to invent the reality’.
The Matrix – Essential to the exploration of psyche and cyberspace
The Matrix – Simulacra and Dystopia – Planet Papers
Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where our bodies live. (Barlow, 1996)
Youve been living in a dream world Neo. This, is the world, as it exists today: Welcome to the desert of the real. (Morpheus to Neo in The Matrix)
Open Knowledge – great idea.
MIT and the OpenCourseWare team are excited to share with you a first sampling of course materials from MIT’s Faculty. We invite educators around the world to draw upon the materials for their own curricula, and we encourage all learners to use the materials for self-study.
This has to be phenomenal. Whatever their motives, whatever the actual use of it by the masses, somewhere somehow this can tip the balance… though of course for sheer access to knowledge the Internet has already made this transformation in the world.
I wonder what restrictions apply? What if I offer a course based on the material? What if other Unis do that?
See also the Wired item: All the World’s an MIT Campus
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Life’s not so complicated web
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Life’s not so complicated web
As in social groups, cliques tend to form in which every member knows all or most of the other members. The researchers used a measure called the clustering coefficient that describes how clique-like a network is.
More fictional therapy.
I am reading Pilgrim by Timothy Findley. From the blurb:
For Jung, this man becomes an embodiment of the psyche’s mystery. Claiming to have no past history but to have simply arrived one day at consciousness, Pilgrim lives in a limbo outside individuality and subjectivity. He’s everyone and no one. Is he a messenger? Or is he a basket case? As the novel gathers momentum, we realize that Pilgrim is a character much like Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, traversing gender and time, a witness. But whereas Woolf is a feverish and emotional writer, Findley is philosophical and dry, playful and slightly pretentious. Imagining conversations between Pilgrim and Henry James, Leonardo da Vinci, and Oscar Wilde, this novel is like a party full of beautiful guests.
Jennifer Malfi
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Analyze this: ‘The Sopranos’ offers real-life lessons on psychotherapy The book, The Psychology of the Sopranos: Love, Death, Desire and Betrayal in America’s Favorite Gangster Family by Glen O. Gabbard looks fun: Amazon has interesting reviews. |
The Big Idea :: an online community of New Zealand\’s creative industries
Virtuality Theorists
Virtuality Theorists Nice bunch of links by Gene R. Thursby, Associate Professor, University of Florida.
Hammett
While at City Lights I got drawn into Dashiell Hammett because of the local colour. On the plane home I read The Glass Key, quite fun. Apparently the basis for the Cohen’s Miller’s Crossing (1990). The original movie: The Glass Key, (1942), sounds good, but not available in the store here. Nice review of it by Alexander Walker
I almost cry when I see and hear the vanished virtues of the old-style Hollywood thriller: terseness, tautness, a laconic attitude to life, but also a commitment to the values that make it worth living and not just killing for.
This bio: Dashiell Hammett [1894-1961] is useful. The man was persecuted in the McCarthy era. Here is a pic I found:
I get onto a roll, I now have a video out: Hammett (1982) directed by Wim Wenders. Perhaps more on that later.
Later: It was awful!