This is a summary from all of my notes from the Business Network Theme Week at the Santa Fe Institute, September 2009. Additional daily summaries were posted back…
Social beings on an expansive earth. After sitting in a conference room for week discussing the future of the human endeavour, it has been equally impressive to drive…
“… is an art not a science, and we would like to make it a science”
but why?
is meaning the same as comfort?
Perhaps a bit…
After putting together my extended notes on Zizek’s tome, The Parallax View, and realizing they belong on this semirandom site, I ran across this article about the 2009…
What does it take to open one’s mind to thoughts previously embedded, or considered fixed?
Safety, comfort? Privacy? What about stimuli?
Somehow the Museum of Contemporary Art’s marketing…
non-contemplation participation in art
Sometimes people contemplate before looking at art, and sometimes contemplate after looking at art.
A building prepares people for events…
Contemplating art before…
Had a visit with Scott Padiak, prototype builder extrordinaire. While reviewing his many constructions, we happened upon the utility of vehicles: from strollers to cycles, motorized and not;…
Change is possible. It is amazing to see all the images from the Mount Redoubt volcano eruption last week. Major events at this scale remind one just…
I know very little about Tim Geithner, but in this random photo, he looks like he’s playing poker… with your money!
My guess:
1.) The economy slows…
Union picketing in Chicago, 2007
CAPITALISM versus COMMUNISM.
we don’t live in a binary world, let’s put Karl Marx and Adam Smith behind us. Our challenge begins with recognizing…