Psyberspace

Yoko Ono Pleads ‘Give Peace a Chance’ on 9/11
Susan Sontag — Real Battles and Empty Metaphors
Nelson Mandela: The United States of America is a Threat to World Peace

later…

I did say I’d keep a travelogue here, and we are on our way,but no, I am keeping this more psyber. However I do have a weblog, more private, and will send you the URL if you like, just email me. This does look like the last post here for a few days though as we travel up the Californian coast.

Chinese Calligraphy

The evaluation of calligraphy thus clearly had an obvious social dimension, but it also had an important natural dimension that should not be overlooked. For example, early critics and connoisseurs often likened its expressive power to elements of the natural world, comparing the movement of the brush to the force of a boulder plummeting down a hillside or to the gracefulness of the fleeting patterns left on the surface of a pond by swimming geese. Writing also would frequently be described in physiological terms that invoked the “bones,” “muscles,” and “flesh” of a line. In short, while calligraphy involves the Confucian emphasis on the social, this cannot be separated from a more Daoist emphasis on the workings of nature.

Found this as part of my reflection about writing on a computer.

http://home.netvigator.com/~kwongkf/4070pg01.htm

For some reason this is the only way this url will go into blogger? What’s going on here? See the earlier post about this essay.

Home Page

“Let us first make an announcement to the gods, saying that we are not going to investigate about them, for we do not claim to be able to do that.” [Socrates, 469-399 BC. Plato, Cratylus

A lot more good quotes to humble an aspiring psychological writer on the same page. Looks like a good site.

Black Rose Books

MCS: Marshall McLuhan Articles.
McLuhan Reconsidered — Jim Andrews
Marshall McLuhan Meets William Gibson in “Cyberspace”
Paul Grosswiler Links to his artiles, including MM and dialectics.