Some essential part of stories lies in their telling. Here is a story: Kant has the idea of the sublime, whereby the aesthetic is significantly determined by its ability to transcend (and hence terrify) our senses. For instance the magnitude of a mountain or a storm – both threaten our sense of self and perception by impressing upon us fact that there is always more, forcing us to teeter...
Summary: The rediscovery of Lucretius’ text by Italian scribe (Poggio Bracciolini) and its impact on contemporary / renaissance thinking. Quote: “[With Lucretius] it became possible – never easy, but possible – in the poet Auden’s phrase to find the mortal world enough.” {Preface} “Acediosus, sometimes translated as “apathetic,” refers to an illness...
The intention is to create “Biomes” for bibliomatic (bibliophrenic?)…{?}. So far (27.02.13) we have the Concepts “BYAF” and “Neurochronoarchitecture”… actually, the former is more accurately described as an Idea… hence, I’m renaming Concepts to Ideas, since the former are a subset. For now, it would be best to accumulate items under...
But You Are Free is a persuasion technique that consists of reaffirming a person’s free choice. The specific words are not especially important, (“BYAF” is as good as “but obviously do not feel obligated”). Strength depends on being done face-to-face. It still has an effect in email, but it is reduced. Supported by 42 studies and 22,000 subjects/people. The best...
Editorial notes: In February 2013, Shai adds Evernote to his suite of repositories. This is an application designed specifically for note-taking, organising, task lists and archiving. This proves to be the ideal tool for him to better control his ever-growing research notes, stored primarily up to this point, in handwritten notebooks and documents stored in his Google drive. Between February 2013...
