Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Intelligent Guff "It sounds terribly complicated, I know. And I suppose it's really not any better than a notebook." "Then why all that guff? I don't get it." "Because," she said carefully, sensing that despite his outward truculence he understood her, "it can happen that - if you practice this art - that the symbols you put next to one another will modify themselves without your choosing it, and that when next you call them forth, they may say something new and revelatory to you, something you didn't know you knew. Out of the proper arrangement of what you do know, what you don't know may arise spontaneously…" "Hawksquill" and "Auberon" from John Crowley's Little, Big

Cuts To The Chase [...] the primary bias of the digital media environment is for distinction. Analog media such as radio and television were continuous, like the sound on a vinyl record. Digital media, by contrast, are made up of many discrete samples. Douglas Rushkoff 07.07.16

Not The Prevailing Narrative The true nature of life - life is playing. Life is just play, and play is the essence of life. Frederick Leboyer

Seeker’s Delectables Back of our own contemporary arts of the collagist, the assembler of forms, is the ancestral, protean concept, wider and deeper, of the poet as devotee of the ensemble. Robert Duncan, Changing Perspectives In Reading Whitman

Revelations Of Interconnection Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition. Learned Hand Cities are about juxtaposition. Richard Rogers

Stray! I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable. Pat Metheny

Combinatory Play Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought. Albert Einstein