"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
An astonishing anthology of what's being called "Arabic futurism" because, as the preface explains well, the term "science fiction" is an invention of other cultures, and it might not apply to what we're reading here.And what is it that we're reading here?Stories about the future,...
There was a light in Simon's room as I entered my house. A vague impulse urged me to visit him. As I opened the door of his sitting-room unannounced, he was bending, with his back toward me, over a Carcel lamp, apparently engaged in minutely...
Last month, I wrote a couple of things aimed at my local market, specifically on the updated norms on BIM for an Exchange Information Requirements and what should be specified inside. In one of those, I mentioned a principle in passing: that the as-built model...
A few nights ago, there I was at one of my favourite pubs (it's this one, in case I'm found dead in a ditch), when an elderly guy approached me. I was sitting at a table, which is uncommon for me, because I had my...
Last week I went to see a rather disappointing exhibition at our local Gallery of Modern Art, and the Contemporary Art Pavilion is just nearby, so I thought I'd try my luck a second time and see if the works on exhibition would make up...
Last month, I caught the opportunity of a few meetings I had in Venice and stayed around to catch this exhibition at the splendid Peggy Guggenheim Foundation, and it was stunning. You have time until March 2nd, and I strongly recommend you make time, if...
Apparently Robert Louis Stevenson was written into my stars, this January: after reading Larsson's take on Long John Silver, I wanted to read something Japanese and I picked a random volume from a series I bought a while ago, not even remembering what it was,...
Two evenings after this, thanks to an arrangement by letter and the promise of an ample fee, I found Madame Vulpes awaiting me at her residence alone. She was a coarse-featured woman, with keen and rather cruel dark eyes, and an exceedingly sensual expression about...
Today's the 90th anniversary of the premiere of Chaplin's Modern Times, a story inspired by what the artist heard about Detroit's industries and about young people suffering from nervous breakdowns after a few years on the assembly line.As a movie, it's not my cup of...
Gilbert Simondon (1924–1989) was a French philosopher renowned for his work on philosophy of technology. He developed an ontology focusing on the processes of individuation, addressing how individuals emerge and transform through communication, and contributed significantly to information theory. This week we try to take...
