https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUtzWMh1fro A quote from Paul Feyerabend's Stanford Encyclopedia page, quoted this bit: "One of my motives for writing Against Method was to free people from the tyranny of philosophical obfuscators and abstract concepts such as “truth”, “reality”, or “objectivity”, which narrow people’s vision and ways of being in the world. Formulating what I thought were … Continue reading Anything Can Go – Interview With Paul Feyerabend in English
Category: interviews
A New Orality is Coming to Replace Old Literacy
"If the past emergence of newspapers was ‘linked to the liberation of the national bourgeoisie’, where is the social media era leading us?(AM): The social media era has already led us to what Martin Gurri has called ‘the revolt of the public ’. I have described this process as the emancipation of authorship. Before the … Continue reading A New Orality is Coming to Replace Old Literacy
Professional Weirdo: John L. Tenney
When my source for weird news says you're a professional weirdo, i.e., "In the latest episode of Against Everyone with Conner Habib, Conner talks with paranormal investigator and professional weirdo John L. Tenney," and it has the title THE PARANORMAL IS REAL & REALITY IS PARANORMAL. I'm going to have to have a listen. Bookmarking … Continue reading Professional Weirdo: John L. Tenney
Hiroshima by John Hersey
"A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died. Each of them counts many small items of chance or volition—a step taken in time, a decision to go indoors, catching one streetcar instead of the next—that … Continue reading Hiroshima by John Hersey
Harvard’s Reinhart and Rogoff Say This Time Really Is Different
"And you want to talk about a negative productivity shock, too. The biggest positive productivity shock we’ve had over the last 40 years has been globalization together with technology. And I think if you take away the globalization, you probably take away some of the technology. So that affects not just trade, but movements and … Continue reading Harvard’s Reinhart and Rogoff Say This Time Really Is Different
Mal on the Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuF3ZudCwwM "In conventional business attire, trusty Mohawk at their side, the two would waylay pedestrians and proprietors. Clandestinely recording each conversation, they would retreat to the curb to rewind: The Mohawk used quarter-inch metal cassettes and rewinding the tapes required the operator to manually turn a handle like a fishing reel. Then they’d hook up … Continue reading Mal on the Street
Pace Yourself
Open Question: What does it mean to "pace yourself" in modern culture? Does it mean staying with something long enough, over time, to truly develop a relationship with the material and love it? "There’s a willingness, there’s a faith, there’s a very, very magical alchemy that happens when somebody looks at something with enormous love … Continue reading Pace Yourself
The Portal, Episode 3: Werner Herzog
"In depth and somewhat reverential interview with Werner Herzog, who the host considers to be an unparalleled genius living in an age that might not be chaotic enough to appreciate him — ”what does a Winston Churchill do if there’s no World War Two to win?”. The answer, apparently, is make films: bizarre, varied, brilliant, … Continue reading The Portal, Episode 3: Werner Herzog
Hot Ones
"What do you think of a show where we interview celebrities while making them eat violently hot chicken wings?"—Bijan Stephen, "In The Hot Seat." The Verge. October 31, 2019. New to me. Loved the article above and plan to check out Hot Ones on YouTube, which currently has +200 videos. Wordness to the turdness.
Hour of the Wolf
"[B]ecause I am a romantic, I still believe that we have the potential to be nobler than we know and better than we think. […] So I urge you to keep your heart’s compass on the true north of your dreams. Be free to be romantics, to reject cynicism, to believe that good will prevail … Continue reading Hour of the Wolf
An Interview with Brontez Purnell – Believer Magazine
"Will I be anything? Will I be nothing at all? / The question wastes time. / I focus, get the chores done." —Jenn Pelly interviewing Brontez Purnell, "An Interview with Brontez Purnell." The Believer Magazine. August 1, 2019. Amazing interview throughout. Also liked: “We endorse the use of lies but not at the expense of … Continue reading An Interview with Brontez Purnell – Believer Magazine
Toni Morrison on Racism
Joe Rogan Experience #1330 — Bernie Sanders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O-iLk1G_ng Can we agree an hour long open format is better than a "debate"?
David Byrne on Love – Believer Magazine
"Love, it seems to me, is a joyous self-deception, practiced by two people at the same time. No one is as wonderful as the object of one’s love appears to be, and yet who among us would trade that illusion for the truth? Being an illusion, it is not real, but despite not being something … Continue reading David Byrne on Love – Believer Magazine
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