growth and form
In my previous post I explored some of the biological contexts of the idea of morphosis, form-changing, in Pynchon’s...
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the giant in the library
The technological history of modernity, as I conceive of it, is a story to be told in light of a theological...
thoughts on the processing of words
This review was commissioned by John Wilson and meant for Books and Culture. Alas, it will not be published there....
writing for young people revisited
Jonathan Myerson has standards. Not for him the craven apologies of the Creative Writing Program at the University of...
I want to believe
Returning to the subject of today’s earlier post: The authors of that study write this in summation: Statistical...
doing things with computers
This is the kind of thing I just don’t understand the value or use of: This paper is the report of a study...
don’t tell anyone, but I agree with Germaine Greer
When she says this, anyway: If you haven’t read Proust, don’t worry. This lacuna in your cultural...
the Republic of Letters
Here’s an excellent article by Robert Darnton, about which I will have more to say later. But for now here’s a...