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William Gibson on “The Future”
Sunday August 12, 2007The Observer The present has recently caught up with William Gibson. The great prophet of the digital future, who not only coined the word ‘cyberspace’ in his debut novel...
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Nancy Davenport Awarded DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant
This photograph made me immediately think of this email I found in my Inbox: Les maçons désoeuvrés venaient par habitude tourner chaque jour autour deschantiers. Les mains dans les poches, chaussés de...
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“I Write for Myself in Multiplicate…” Vladimir Nabokov
". . . as I have said often enough, I write for myself in multiplicate, a not unfamiliar phenomenon on the horizon of shimmering deserts." — Vladimir Nabokov "Even though you think you know exactly...
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Waiting; Roland Barthes
I am waiting for an arrival, a return, a promised sign. This can be futile, or immensely pathetic; in Erwartung (Waiting), a woman waits for her lover, at night, in the forest; I am waiting for no...
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Joan Didion and “Alienation from Self”
"If we do not respect ourselves … we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out — since our self-image is untenable — their false notions of us. We flatter ourselves...
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La Révolution du Jour: Art, Memory, Form and Peter Schjeldahl
Form is how memory works. Peter Schjeldahl dropped the above mini-aphorism on us about three-quarters of the way through his Oct. 8th, article in The New Yorker, "All Together Now" which covered the...
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Doris Lessing’s ’07 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
"The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by war, by the horrors that we all of us easily imagine. Let us suppose floods...
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On Ugliness by Umberto Eco
Just read a great review of Eco’s "On Ugliness" in the Telegraph. I confess a weakness for Eco’s essays and fiction, but Brian Dillon pulls no punches in his attempt to put Eco into historical place....
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Wabi Sabi, Biogerontology and “The Book of Tea”
by Daniel Flahiff “It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.” - Kakuzo Okakura The Book of Tea...
View ArticlePecha Kucha Night at CoCA, Seattle. Thursday 7pm
Just found out about this one and won’t be able to make it because I’ll be in San Jose covering West Coast Green. But you all should go! These are great… Please join CoCA as we play host to Pecha Kucha...
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