Some friends invited me to join them on a “hobo” bike ride this past Sunday. We got on BART at 16th St. at 2:30 and rode an hour to the end of the line at Pittsburg. There we rode on a multi-use path along the outer reaches of Bay Area suburbs until we reached Somersville [...]
Finished reading The Body of the Artisan by Pamela H. Smith, subtitled “Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution”. It’s a beautiful art book, full of illustrations and plates to bring forth her argument that the artists and artisans of the late 1500s and 1600s were crucial participants in developing a new epistemology. The work [...]
Perhaps I’d be better off coining a different term here, perhaps Googlocracy or something like that. I just looked up Googlism and of course it’s a whole website dedicated to using the search engine to create a series of declarative statements about anything you’d care to run through its filter. But that’s not what I [...]
