writing and translation
Yesterday my cousin Tom posted a text on Facebook, introducing an experiment. The idea was, first, to check on who actually read his posts (and was willing to follow the instructions), and second, to kick-start a bit...
I seem to be learning to write again, this time with a machine reader in mind. Since the software — in my case, Boldgrid — IS an algorithm, it performs the function of a robotic...
Among the many memories of a recent trip to Crete are two different scripts that were developed there. Linear B is an early form of Greek, but Linear A, which seems to use the same...
I finished reading Educated yesterday, Tara Westover’s memoir of her survivalist Mormon upbringing and subsequent separation from it. By her account, the separation was achieved by means of formal education. Only once in the book...
Before I learned of Ginzburg’s book, I used the phrase “family lexicon”(incorrectly, I think in retrospect) as the domain name for a website of family photographs. The project crashed and burned for the best...
“His [Flusser’s] writing method evolved in the era of the portable manual typewriter, and he never changed it thereafter, despite the explosion of information technology through which he was to live and about which...
