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The strange alchemy

“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing”, wrote the philosopher Blaise Pascal. People once thought that emotions and rational thought travelled along parallel lines that never converged. Philosophers and scientists dismissed emotions as being of little interest - they were believed to hamper rational behaviour. But for some ti...

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Jan 03, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: alchemy, artificial intelligence, artists, blaise pascal, brain, cognitive, college, commercials, culture, decisions, dylan evans, emotion, emotions, evolution, films | Leave A Comment »

I shop therefore I am

Magazine -> #5 The Dictatorship of the Consumption

Casole d´Elsa, summer 2001, Surasi Kusolwong organises a stall market. The people know that there, for one thousand liras, the equivalent of half a euro today, they can buy all sorts of things they do not need: a pink plastic colander, a pair of Chinese slippers, stools, nor, later, would he have deemed it worthy to enlarge coffee cups, had he not...

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Dec 23, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: addiction, andy warhol, angela vettese, art, barbara kruger, bargains, biennale, cartesian, casole delsa, chinese, claes oldenburg, coffee, cogito, connection, consumption | Leave A Comment »

To google

Magazine -> #20 Home Made

In front a cup of coffee. Google is perhaps one of the best examples of how an idea can create a successful project. The engine behind a great many innovations and new attitudes, it has even altered the English language (the verb “to google” for example, now used by web users as a synonym for “search”). But what is the story behind Goog...

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Dec 04, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: artist, author, beta, blog, browse, community, competitors, creator, engine, english, enthusiasm, google, home, home made, idea | Leave A Comment »

Footnotes to a blank page

Magazine -> #27 The Culture of Listening

You could be me. Any human being on earth could end up in my situation – that of an (im)migrant. I am not talking about tourists who give up their daily life at home to try living somewhere else for a time. I’m talking about people who pack up their lives and move to a country that is so foreign that they have to mobilise all their resources - ...

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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: cartloads, countries, cultures, difference, email, expatrieted, foreign, home, human being, identify, ignorance, immigrant, interpret, language, life | Leave A Comment »