Philosophy essay - The TLS | How philosophy can happen in isolation, an essay by Anil Gomes "Those of us at home with children at the moment cannot avoid the “irrelevant intrusion of domestic matters into intellectual life”. A conversation with a colleague about some nicety of Kant was interrupted by my daughter screaming “That’s [...]
Category: New Beginning
Pandemic Recovery Requires Post-Normal Science | Issues in Science and Technology
In world-historical terms we also see periodic collapse and regeneration. A half-millennium of European economic and cultural expansion came to its end with the Great War. Its American extension has been brief, and the twin crises of the Great Recession of 2007–2008 and the coronavirus have now left the US heartland financially debilitated. The initial [...]
Stories of an extraordinary world – The internet, mon amour | The Economist
The coronavirus pandemic has driven many of us even further into the embrace of the internet. But can you live a truly fulfilled life online? — Read on http://www.economist.com/news/2020/06/19/the-internet-mon-amour
Ukrainian Railroad Ladies – The Washington Post
When asked about his inspiration for “Ukrainian Railroad Ladies,” a series of portraits of women who work as traffic controllers and safety officers, photographer Sasha Maslov said, “As a photographer I was drawn to the architecture and interiors of these buildings. As a storyteller I was attracted by the anthropological and social roles played by [...]
Live with Carnegie Hall | Carnegie Hall
Music has the undeniable power to comfort, uplift, connect, and inspire. In response to this unprecedented time, we invite you to join us for an entirely new original online series: Live with Carnegie Hall. Tune in for unforgettable episodes that feature some of the world’s finest artists as they share behind-the-scenes stories, excerpts from past [...]
Ann Patchett on running a bookshop in lockdown: ‘We’re a part of our community as never before’ | Books | The Guardian
The novelist reveals how the store she co-owns in Nashville is making, and remaking, plans to get books to readers who want them more than ever — Read on http://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/10/ann-patchett-nashville-bookshop-coronavirus-lockdown-publishing
Meet Jack Tar, the sailor with a nation in his calloused hands | Aeon Essays
He was a patriot and a prisoner, a delegate and a drunk; circling the globe when few Englishmen ever left their home counties — Read on aeon.co/essays/meet-jack-tar-the-sailor-with-a-nation-in-his-calloused-hands
Garden of Painterly Delights | The New York Review of Books |
During World War I, when soldiers thought longingly of home, their minds often turned to the garden. Indeed, they made small gardens in the trenches, planting bulbs in empty brass shell-casings. In a catalog essay, the Garden Museum’s director, Christopher Woodward, quotes Ford Madox-Ford’s No Enemy: A Tale of Reconstruction (1929), on the soldier’s dream [...]
Why we read: the joy of books
There is an ubiquity of apps these days which condense books into snippets or short video/audio presentations. I like the idea. After all, time is the rarest ‘commodity’ in today’s world. (The self quarantine that many of us are currently going through has given us a new sense of the value of personal time.) However, [...]
A Family Flees In ‘Story Boat’: ‘Here’ Is Home, But ‘Here’ Keeps Changing : NPR
The family in Story Boat is leaving an unspecified place and heading to an unknown destination. "It's a story about uncertainty. It's about dreaming," Maclear says. The family in the book is in the midst of an ongoing journey — "here" is home, but "here" keeps changing. Maclear says she tried to build a pattern [...]
