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State of the Art Questions (1983)

50 — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 01:23:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.academia.edu/7748102/State_of_the_Art_Questions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39598304

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"The Expanding Universe", Notes by Laurie Spiegel

50 — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 02:21:04 +0000

Article URL: https://unseenworlds.com/blogs/linernotes/laurie-spiegel-the-expanding-universe-notes-by-laurie-spiegel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39586454

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Agnes Martin: "Beauty Is the Mystery of Life"

50 — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 10:05:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.artbook.com/blog-excerpt-agnes-martin-beauty-is-the-mystery-of-life.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39522262

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"Spheresy 164" by Alina Popa and Nicola Masciandaro

50 — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 15:22:11 +0000

Article URL: http://www.slug.directory/23-spheresy-164-by-alina-popa-and-nicola-masciandaro/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39326753

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New comment by 50 in "Lessons from a fountain pen addict"

50 — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 03:21:29 +0000

I've gifted a couple friends Midori notebooks before. On the go, portable enough to carry in a jacket or back pocket, I'm partial to the A6 blank notebook. Otherwise, I like the free form factor of A5/A4 loose leaf paper, particularly on a spacious desk.

New comment by 50 in "Ask HN: What are you reading Feb 2024"

50 — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 14:01:23 +0000

Oh, yes, exceedingly so. I found it to be extraordinary[1]. It has been on the back of my mind to-read since late summer of 2019, where the recommendation came from a soft-spoken lecturer.

1: For example, ranging from "...Nippers would sometimes impatiently rise from his seat, and stooping over his table, spread his arms wide apart, seize the whole desk..." to "...at leisure intervals I looked a little into 'Edwards on the Will,' and 'Priestly on Necessity'..."

New comment by 50 in "Ask HN: What are you reading Feb 2024"

50 — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 12:38:42 +0000

Just finished reading, for the first time, the short story "Bartleby, The Scrivener" by Melville.

I have also been reading the essays in David Foster Wallace in Context[1], published in November of 2022.

And I'm looking forward to reading here soon the seemingly first ever English translation of Philipp Mainländer's The Philosophy of Redemption[2], just published several weeks ago.

1: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/david-foster-wallace-in...

2: https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Redemption-Philipp-Mainl%C...

New comment by 50 in "Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science"

50 — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 18:51:33 +0000

UCSC should also have a psychedelics studies program (is there any better place?), particularly on account of their already unique (and wonderful) History of Consciousness program.

I remember an old and dear chemist friend of mine there who made me aware of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). I still have his copy of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History he lent me after taking a sociology course on drugs in society, if I recall correctly.

New comment by 50 in "Last Piece of Advice for People with Severe Computer Eye Strain"

50 — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 15:59:54 +0000

The advice is excessive and idealistic. But otherwise, I think the default screen resolutions render text too small. On my laptop, I prefer the scaled resolution of 1024x640, compared to the default 1280x800. Other settings I use is increasing display contrast and making use of display color filters (filter: color tint; intensity: max; color: red).

Franz Wright on the Love and Failures of Language

50 — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:25:44 +0000

Article URL: https://lithub.com/franz-wright-on-the-love-and-failures-of-language/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38722567

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New comment by 50 in "Vision Pro will change photography"

50 — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 19:19:40 +0000

> there is a whole new appreciation of being there

And yet, the always unsuccessful attempt of the photograph: "To annihilate itself as medium, to be no longer a sign but the thing itself" (Barthes, Camera Lucida).

New comment by 50 in "Ask HN: What do you use to replace incandescent lights?"

50 — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 17:35:45 +0000

Great lantern analysis on your blog! I initially thought the Comet was right up my alley but seems like the Jupiter is a happy medium.

New comment by 50 in "Ask HN: What do you use to replace incandescent lights?"

50 — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:13:58 +0000

For as long as I may remember, I've had the same problem. I detest artificial light and I'm a sucker for the twilit, moonlit, and candlelit. Seems like modernization means having every single dark corner illuminated.

Aren't there types of candles that are long-lasting and which don't give off the seemingly bad chemicals I tend to hear about?

New comment by 50 in "Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 Is Deceitful and Threatening (2021)"

50 — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:08:47 +0000

I've tried different browsers, more so these past few years, and always end up back with Ungoogled Chromium. It seemingly uses half of the memory of Firefox.

New comment by 50 in "Think in Analog, Capture in Digital"

50 — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 14:47:09 +0000

Although, the "pact with the digital has a price, which is this drastic loss of 'measure.'"[1]

1: https://www.publicbooks.org/changes/

New comment by 50 in "Mindblowing dissertations"

50 — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 06:03:39 +0000

A rare occurrence, a few months ago, I came across one (re: a dissertation that is both entertaining and for the lay): Neocosmicism: God and the Void (2013) by Ellen Greenham[1].

It seems like it eventually came into fruition as a full-fledged book: After Engulfment: Cosmicism and Neocosmicism in H. P. Lovecraft, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, and Frank Herbert (2022) by Ellen Greenham[2].

1: https://researchportal.murdoch.edu.au/esploro/outputs/doctor...

2: https://www.hippocampuspress.com/other-authors/nonfiction/af...

New comment by 50 in "Vergil’s secret message"

50 — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:50:07 +0000

> The web of relationships extends to music as well.

Reminds me of a recent, first time listen of John Cale's rendition of Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1dX00JlTF0

New comment by 50 in "Flexbox Froggy"

50 — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 11:05:26 +0000

See also Josh Comeau's interactive guide to flexbox: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/interactive-guide-to-flexbox...

New comment by 50 in "Vergil’s secret message"

50 — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 10:58:19 +0000

> classical texts are enmeshed in a dense web of relationships that can surprise and invigorate us, even after thousands of years

"[E]nmeshed in a web of relationships", i.e., intertextual[1].

Further reading: Hermann Broch's novel, The Death of Virgil, and Simone Weil's lesser known compilation of writings, Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertextuality

The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses [pdf]

50 — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 07:16:24 +0000

Article URL: https://cc-catalogo.org/site/pdf/Pallasmaa_EyesoftheSkin.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37621258

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