Arcana: Musicians on Music
There are ten of these books — same title, volumes I – X — published at irregular intervals between 2000 and last year. I don’t own them all (about half are in my nearby...
Category: creativity
The Measurement Problem
Is there a problem? There is. It concerns the relationship of the measurer to the measured, the scientist (or her measuring tools) to whatever-is-being-measured. Philosophers tend to view it as the relationship of subject to object, noting...
Flusser’s Untranslatability
There’s a conference coming up next year with the title “Flusser’s Languages.” One of the questions to be addressed is, “Is Flusser untranslatable?’ Yes, I think he is. And although the same might be...
A Photographer on Mars
Opportunity Rover was a very engaging robot. It “lived” on Mars for nearly 15 years, gathering and transmitting data back to earth; it “died” or, as NASA put it, completed its mission on 13 February 2019. In...
Imagining
Yesterday I read about a phenomenologist’s effort to position imagination with respect to other cognitive functions. The argument was that although imagination is thin, which I think means fragile or fleeting, it is autonomous,...
Experiments in Photography
Revelations: Experiments in Photography will open at the Science Museum in London on 20 March. I’m reviewing it for Source, and looking foward to seeing images I’ve liked for a very long time,...