Cartesian Tabula Rasa: A (Brief) Discourse on Method

René Descartes was an interesting cat. A genius, no doubt, but also someone with a philosophy that most great minds today will tell you couldn’t be more wrong. While his dualism of mind and matter is a false dichotomy, the approach he…

Q&A: Geist, Art, and Kandinsky

Q: Who’s Wassily Kandinsky?

A: Russian painter and art theorist, Wassily Kandinsky is credited with creating one of the first purely abstract works. After studying at the University of Moscow, Kandinsky gave up a successful career in law and…

(brief) Review: “Fates and Furies”

This book’s immensely readable. I started it in the evening and finished it by afternoon the next…

Musings on “The Gap” — plus Novak Djokovic & “Killer Taste”

Q&A: The Proverbial Buzz Kill, plus a “New Physics Theory of Life”

Q: What happened when you got back to your apartment after work?

A: Oh man, let’s see…I biked home from work, went to lock it up on the street (right where I always do) next to where I park…

Review: “The Evolution of Everything”

The thesis of this book is right. Spot on, in fact. Ridley incorporates Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things as a grounding aesthetic to discuss The Evolution of Everything — and that was a solid move. This book needed a bit of poetry. It was so (almost too) dense…

Q&A: What’s up with “War and Peace”?

Q: Reading War and Peace, what did you learn about war ?

A: That it’s brutish and folly. That no one knows what they’re doing and everything’s a mess. That people get killed right in front of your face and life doesn’t stop for a…

On Talking and Writing

We all have something to say,

and we all wish to be understood.

Artists,

across all mediums and modalities of communication,