Posts tagged Metamorphoses
A BRIEF HISTORY OF MANUFACTURED NONCHALANCE
A BRIEF HISTORY OF MANUFACTURED NONCHALANCE

Again and again, nonchalance is something we want to build with images but tear down with words. On some level we all understand it is an illusion, so why do we keep falling for it? 

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glamour, innovation, mythology, recursionNatasha JoukovskyOvid, Metamorphoses, Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, Virginia Postrel, The Power of Glamour, Ian McEwan, Atonement, vanlife, The New Yorker, Rachel Monroe, social media, illusion, freedom, nonchalance, manufactured nonchalance, sprezzatura, Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the CourtierComment
RECURSION: THE REMIX TO COGNITION
RECURSION: THE REMIX TO COGNITION

Recursion transcends academic disciplines, unites art and nature, and may be the fundamental linguistic and even cognitive function that differentiates human from animal existence. 

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recursionNatasha Joukovskymathematics, biology, art, loops, infinite recursion, business, Narcissus, Noam Chomsky, Michael Corballis, The Recursive Mind, The Droste Effect, Matryoshka dolls, mis en abyme, frame story, story within a story, fractals, fibonacci numbers, factorials, golden ratio, infinite loop, loop, circular reference, recursive humor, Ovid, Metamorphoses, Echo, John William Waterhouse, Sierpinski, 2016Comment