Not only is science a branch of economics, so now is art. See: BBC Story and Guardian piece. In fact if you think about the current scale of funding into fundamental physics, actually science is the branch of culture being funded for it’s own sake. Mad. The world turned upside down. (Follow @TiffanyJenkins) Full transcript here.  Lees bleak [...]
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Art for Art’s Sake ?
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April 24, 2013 at 9:26am
by Psybertron
Songs That Changed The World
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January 31, 2013 at 9:44am
by Psybertron
Worth keeping a link to this collection. Interesting. I agree with several of them; I’d probably add Big Yellow Taxi.
Skilled Cheese Wits
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January 28, 2013 at 2:38pm
by Psybertron
One for the “creative writing” pile. (Hat tip to Hugh McLeod)
Motivation 3.0 – The Pink Way
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January 28, 2013 at 12:24pm
by Psybertron
Dan Pink’s “Drive” caught on as a best seller in the last couple of years in promoting the concept of “Motivation 3.0″. Of course, the terminology catches the fashion of the internet generation, and good luck if the brief readable book, with its “Toolkit” of ideas does lead to more management catching on in more [...]
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Bliss
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January 21, 2013 at 3:01pm
by Psybertron
An underused word (like the word “grace”). Nice piece from Hugh McLeod at Gaping Void (hat tip to tweet from Dave Gurteen). Message to the next generation to notice the difference between a life’s work and a career in a day job. In this case, based on the advertising business, but good for bringing in [...]
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Seven Pillars in Iraq
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December 10, 2012 at 11:48am
by Psybertron
Interesting listening to the excellent BBC R4 documentary “Lawrence of Arabia – Man and Myth“ by Allan Little. I’m a long time fan of TEL as a humanist moral philosopher and poet, but amazing to hear that his opus Seven Pillars of Wisdom was regularly used by the Americans in Iraq, Gen Petraeus no less, [...]
Honky Tonk Woman
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October 5, 2012 at 9:00am
by Psybertron
Wonderful story of people and place connections … the place being 82A Railton Road, Brixton. Made my day. Hat tip to BifRiv.
Font Credulity
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August 9, 2012 at 10:54am
by Psybertron
Fascinating piece from Errol Morris on NYT Opinionator today. Picked-up from a cross hit on Psybertron for David Deutsch. One of his quotes is used as an example, but in fact it is tangential to the subject of the article – why the experienced quality, value and truth in a text depends on the font [...]
Too Much Communication
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August 8, 2012 at 11:55am
by Psybertron
This is surreal and ironic on many levels. Sam is probably my second favourite amongst the four horsemen, a real moral philosopher. No prize for guessing my least favourite, but it was he who tweeted the link picked-up by Ricky. (Dan, Sam, Hitch and the Dawk in that order in case you’re interested.) Fact : [...]
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The Cult of Science
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July 24, 2012 at 8:37am
by Psybertron
Great piece by Jonathan Ree in the New Humanist reviewing the work of Bruno Latour particularly his latest “The Modern Cult of the Factish Gods” (Hat tip to David Morey on Facebook) But who in this great brawl is really believing naively? Not the religious believers, according to Latour, but the modern atheists, afflicted as they [...]
NRA Ban Movies
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July 23, 2012 at 8:36am
by Psybertron
Andy Borowitz in The New Yorker. In the aftermath of Aurora, the NRA propose sweeping ban on movies. (Hat tip to David Lavery)
Refreshing
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July 20, 2012 at 11:04am
by Psybertron
Saw this clip the other day – Craig Bellamy being interviewed about being in the GB Olympic football team – and thought as well as being surprisingly articulate, his school-boyish enthusiasm and all round good humour made such a change from all the usual earnest and corporately correct punditry and commentary. I wasn’t the only [...]
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Less is More #34
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July 9, 2012 at 1:08pm
by Psybertron
One in a long series, but here an example that’s new to me. Faster frame rate TV and Film, cameras and projectors, and interpolation of additional frames to smooth slower frame rate media – may make images more “real”, but not necessarily better. Here : Home vs showroom vs cinema settings generally. Here : Slumdog [...]
True to ZMM
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June 24, 2012 at 9:33am
by Psybertron
Good to hear James Purefoy in the role of Bob / Phaedrus in Peter Flannery’s dramatisation of Robert Pirsig‘s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on BBC Radio4′s Saturday Drama. It’s there to listen again in BBC Radio4 iPlayer’s “Most Popular” . [Only available until next Saturday 30th June 2012.] The characterizations, tone and atmosphere were [...]
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ZMM Dramatization on the Beeb
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June 17, 2012 at 10:29am
by Psybertron
Robert Pirsig‘s 1974 “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” is a special interest of Psybertron, and is the favourite book of Peter Flannery. So, he’s created a dramatization to be be broadcast next Saturday 23rd June at 2:30pm as BBC R4 Saturday Drama. (Mentioned earlier.)
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Classy
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June 12, 2012 at 8:48am
by Psybertron
To repay our debt to Greece.
Common Sense
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May 24, 2012 at 12:27pm
by Psybertron
Common sense for government to develop relationship with press / media, even without formal agreements. Said Alastair Campbell this week at the Levenson enquiry. Good excuse to link again to this 8 year old “Wheel of Retribution” re Campbell’s relationship with the BBC back in the days of the Hutton Report. [Via "I believe in [...]
Internet Lies
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May 21, 2012 at 11:05am
by Psybertron
Part of my memetic argument is that easy untruths spread faster than difficult truths. Here’s a test case. Truth is about trust in the author, not hit counts. [Hat Tip to Jorn]
Not Just Experimental
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May 16, 2012 at 11:34am
by Psybertron
But now a campaign to go the whole hog and remove all UK traffic lights …. See Previous. [and Here] [and Here]
The American in Americana
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April 20, 2012 at 8:34am
by Psybertron
When asked these days, as I was just last weekend, what kind if music I’m into generally, I often say “Americana”. And by that I always meant just about any blues-based rock, tempered by a more recent education of the breadth of what that can mean during our 3 years stint in the southern US. [...]
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Devo Max – Jocko Homo
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February 17, 2012 at 9:23am
by Psybertron
I could have posted this the instant it occurred to me yesterday – but now after BBC R4 Today playing a clip of Devo and interviewing Gerry Casale this morning #Devo is UK trending all over twitter this morning. I’ve posted before how Devo’s first UK gig at the Roundhouse Sunday 30th April 1978 was [...]
