writing and translation
This is the title of Daniel Kahneman’s remarkable new book. It describes and evaluates two very different types of thinking in quite considerable detail: “intuition” (fast), and something more like calculation, or rational thinking(slow). Kahnemann...
I just uploaded a conference paper called “Computing the Past” (under Writing>Papers). It describes Steven Poliakoff’s TV drama, Shooting the Past, as a conflict between two different ways of valuing photographic archives: as a...
Translation is probably the core idea in Flusser’s thought (Guldin Philosophieren zwischen den Sprachen, 2005). He was never concerned with accuracy with respect to an “original”, though. It is not about some sort of...