Fickle Ears

The relation of an ideological system to the social system in which it takes root is highly complex, and subject to a great deal of variatio...

...the dominant character structure of modern Germany had been distinguished by a striking dualism between " A : an emotional, idealist...

Oteiza’s paradox consists in that while New York’s world-class artists will consider him as their equal (Serra conceded to a reporter that h...

Among the many challenges of the past thirteen months has been the everyday-epistemological challenge of staying grounded and vigilant in an...

Social systems in which a considerable number of individuals are in a complex and delicate state of mutual interdependence tend greatly to l...

If we are right in thinking that special pressures operate on the younger generation relative to the general pressures generated by social c...

The problem in deciding whether a scientific result or a new innovation is a "breakthrough," that is, the opposite of noise, is th...

(2016, rev. 2020-21) (Previously: Author's Disclaimer/Preface) (a part ii may or may not be forthcoming, perhaps before, during or aft...

(2020-21) The bulk of the forthcoming essay was written between four and five years ago. That time already seems more like a past life. I ab...

I am still furloughed and still on the public dole. It has been just over six months, and if it goes on for only another six that will hit t...

(from my Goodreads review of Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-1960 by Nicholas Sammond) The ov...

"By and large working artists seek privacy and anonymity. But they also require exposure to all sides of life. These two benefits are a...

-I- Mid-quarantine sports media has gone nostagic out of necessity, with the recent Michael Jordan documentary leading the charge, and the...

One day as a high-schooler writing music on my Dad's PowerMac, I discovered that ConcertWare had a meter called "Free Time." T...