More listening
I’ve been carrying on with my music project. It’s been full of surprises — what I’d call a success, in other words. I think I am learning to listen. What began as a systematic, linear move...
Author: neophyte
Alice and Bob and Spooky Effects in Time
The little comic strip reproduced here is from the NASA website. “Alice” and “Bob” are not people, certainly. They might be particles, but they don’t have to be. They’re pretty much complete abstractions, and...
Who do you think you are?
Lambert Wiesing, the only practicing phenomenologist I know, just published a book about the perception of self (Ich für mich). It’s a difficult argument, as you might expect. It turns out that proper philosophers have simply never...
Zooming life away
Apparently Zoom burnout has become a recognised condition. It’s a bit like what the virus is doing to us all, flattening, numbing, draining, insolating…stupefying? The British actress/comedienne, Diane Morgan got it exactly right, I think....
Weather Stations
Yesterday, I set out to add a weather report to a friend’s website. She is serious about gardening, and her garden is in a seriously windy location. In short weather — especially wind — is always...
Fear of Facebook
Does anyone else find that once you have had to change something about your habits, patterns, rituals — whatever you want to call them — a lot of others come up for questioning? I like...