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#14 Refresh
Mr. Sharpe, what is your relationship to information nowadays? Do you feel to be in contact with the babble of the world, to “refresh” is relevant for you and for a writer in general?
My relationship to information is like that of a fish to water. The very oxygen that feeds each cell of my body is tainted with information, and, to paraphrase K...
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Jan 24, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: berthelme, book, delillo, educator, emily dickinson, eugenides, franzen, information, internet, kafka, lilia ambrosi, literature, matthew sharpe, morrison, novel | Leave A Comment »
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#1 Timetables and scoreboards
Time and rhythm are an integral part of modern life and they can be experienced either as incentives to improve or as reasons for dissatisfaction. Today, our attention is turned to the well being of our social system: there is clear evidence of this in science, technology and culture, but the objective is not always attained in a harmonised and hom...
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Dec 14, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: andrea illy, attention, companies, confidence, crisis, culture, dissatisfaction, dynamics, future, greed, homogeneous, information, knowledge, life, mankind | Leave A Comment »
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#1 Timetables and scoreboards
TREVISO, A FORMER FOUNDRY, REFURBISHED.
We are standing on a loft from which we can see a group of young people at work and only a few metres away, others are playing pool, having a break from the project.
E-TREE, ALSO CALLED THE "NOSLEEPING COMPANY" IS KNOWN MORE FOR ITS EXPERIMENTS WITH WORKING ENVIRONMENT DESIGNING THAN FOR ITS PRODUCTS. WHA...
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Dec 14, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: adoptions, always on, bar, codes of conduct, company, creativity, design, e tree, ethical, experiment, firms, foundry, gratification, gym, habits | Leave A Comment »
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#23 Emotion and Surprise
From weeping to the research of the lost emotion. In Pictures and Tears (Routledge) James Elkins, art historian and critic, professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, appealed for and collected more than four hundred contributions from very different people, who told him which artwork the armour we use to try to defend ourselves from ...
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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: arc, armour, art, art institute of chicago, climate, culture, duration, dynamics, emotion, emotional arthrosis, erudition kills emotion, experience, fleeting moment, formaldehyde, houston | Leave A Comment »
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#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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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: anxiety, aspirations, blackout, conventions, curiosity, cutting edge, discovery, expectations, exploration, game, information, joke, jurassic park, knowledge, lover | Leave A Comment »
