Why Art Does Not Exist
This title is adapted from Why Fish Don’t Exist [1] which in turn draws on Carol Kaesuk Yoon’s taxonomy study Naming Nature[2] to support its startling contention. Everyone knows what fish are. But today,...
Category: evolution
A Review of Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
Once I’d finished reading it, I found I needed to really think hard to distil the main idea out of many ideas. For the text does have a complex structure: two genders, three species...
Drawing and magic
I did the second Mediascape lecture today–the title was drawing, although the idea was broader–prehistoric media, that is, media before writing. It was meant to include carving, modelling — probably “performance” (some kinds). But...