Six Dense Minutes: The Pilot Episode of a New Podcast
You may have noticed that the pace of posting on this blog has slowed over the last few months. I’ve been working on a few other projects recently, mostly long-term, some more public than others. I’m...
View ArticleSix Dense Minutes: Permission and Poetic License
An unlearned constellation? Whose permission do we need to express ourselves? Questions How have you found poetic license in your own work — and life? What do you do to encourage those around you to...
View ArticleSix Dense Minutes: Solidity and Liquidity
Into the Unknown After starting off with a somewhat obtuse quote from Glenn Gould, I set up a metaphor of an island and the surrounding sea: The land is certainty, and the sea, uncertainty. The land...
View ArticleSix Dense Minutes: We are the Other Tears — and Joys — of History
I’m back after an unexpected break. When I finished writing this piece last week, my nose was stuffy and my throat was unhappy, and it seemed really inappropriate to read a post that had “tears” and...
View ArticleSix Dense Minutes: Pre-Verbal Gurgles
In a comment on my recent post about English as a kind of second language, Zoë Westhof mentioned the Surrealists’ interest in the unconscious mind, and their question of whether our unconscious...
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