thehumansarecoming

...the dots on an idea I have brewing, which I'll post more about in future. In the meantime, here are some of the dots... Introducing the Twiller: Recently, a handful of creators (present company included) have scrapped pen and paper for mobile phone and keypad, and started texting their novels — in real ...

I, somewhat reluctantly, flew back into Glasgow this morning. I've been working up for for the last few weeks, returning to London for the weekends. Glasgow is a dreary city. It's rough, industrial, working class reputation is well earned and evident everywhere you look. Not the kinda place you look forward ...

No one knew it, but the fiddler standing against a bare wall outside the Metro in an indoor arcade at the top of the escalators was one of the finest classical musicians in the world, playing some of the most elegant music ever written on one of the most valuable ...

[original post, August 2006] Network theory is facinating! I can't remember how I stumbled across this article, but it's a facinating, critical analysis of the politics of network theory. The ghost in the network: alexander galloway and eugene thacker. It starts out looking at the soul of network , but ...

[Original post, September 2005] I’ve always been facinated by words that have no direct translation into other languages. They speak volumes about the peoples and cultures that use them. It also reminds us of the connection between language and thought and language and culture. Does language shape thought? Or does thought ...