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March 11 2011, 10:35am | Comments
Link Alvin Lucier: I am Sitting in a Room
"I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it…

February 16 2011, 7:48am | Comments
Link When new narratives meet old brains
We're hard-wired to turn our lives into stories - how will we cope with the dizzying digital fictions of the future, ask John Bickle and Sean Keating "We are our…

November 25 2010, 9:29am | Comments
Metafilter Sacrifice, speech, writing and art Sacrifice, speech, writing and art: I am interested in the different ways in which a sacrifice, a sacrament, a spoken word and a written word act as signifiers.…

February 24 2010, 6:28am | Comments
Link A Reporter at Large: The Interpreter
In the wake of the controversy that greeted his paper, Everett encouraged scholars to come to the Amazon and observe the Pirahã for themselves. The first person to take him…

February 21 2010, 5:00pm | Comments
Link Sleep Talkin' Man
My mild-mannered English husband Adam lives quite a colorful existence in his dreams. Having benefited from hours of delight at his dead of night musings, I thought it was only…

January 9 2010, 7:24am | Comments
Link A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families
Every family, it seems, has its own set of words for describing particular Lego pieces. No one uses the official names. “Dad, please could you pass me that Brick 2x2?”…

November 8 2009, 4:01am | Comments
Link The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English
In depicting the emergence of the world’s languages as a curse of gibberish, the biblical tale of the Tower of Babel makes us moderns smile. Yet, considering the headache that…

November 1 2009, 4:32am | Comments
Link Serpentine Gallery: Poetry Marathon - Saturday and Sunday,…
Tickets £25/£20 (two day) £15/£10 (one day) Available from the Gallery Lobby Desk or Ticketweb: 08444 77 1000 www.ticketweb.co.uk The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 is an open-air structure, so please…

October 15 2009, 8:04am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments
Metafilter A nation of nonbelievers "The government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian Religion." ~ George Washington / "I do not find in Christianity one redeeming feature."…

January 20 2009, 12:40pm | Comments

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