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Last Issue: #31 The Journey
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
The unexpected world
Magazine -> #26 Re-Evaluate The ErrorA sketch comes into focus beneath the scrutinizing eye of a camera lens, revealing an error. Promptly corrected, a new and different figure appears, materialised and dematerialised by strong, alternate strokes of pencil and eraser flaying the surface. That’s how William Kentridge works, by fine-tuning and adjustment, dynamically, hesitantly, step...
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Magazine -> #14 Refresh“Upgrade”, in the sense of bringing up to date, of refreshing one’s knowledge, practices and style, seems to be the catchword of the moment. One’s very survival seems to depend on it! But it’s an imperative that induces a sense of anxiety at the thought of being out-of-step; of being left behind; of redundancy. It’s a sense of anxiety ...
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Magazine -> #10 Nomadic knowledgeMargherita Hack is virtually a youngster out to discover the world. There’s not an article dealing with her, though, that fails to underscore her chronological age of eightytwo. Probably it’s because the interviewer is amazed to find a person whose curiosity and wit are undimmed and indeed as redoubtable as ever. An astrophysicist of internat...
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Magazine -> #17 SerendipitySerendipity isn’t yet a very familiar concept in the cultural sphere, is it? It mightn’t be, but what it refers to is very relevant to design and innovation in any sphere of activity, not only that of culture. How do you go about trying to be innovative? And can serendipity help? The best way to go about it is to look elsewhere. The beaten t...
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Magazine -> #17 SerendipityWhat does “serendipity” mean to you? It’s connected with Charles Sanders Peirce’s idea of what constitutes an invention. He introduces the concept of “abduction”. Two Peircian scholars, Bonfantini and Proni, have identified three types of abduction which I feel are closely related to the concept of “serendipity”. The first type ...
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