brettworks

• An interview with Cory Doctorrow.

“When anything seems important to me, in any way, I write a blog post about it. There’s a lot of advantages to that. When I write for a public audience, I apply rigor necessarily that I wouldn’t apply to notes to myself. So that creates a kind of mnemonic soup—fragmentary ideas that seem important that I’ve fixed in my mind by the act of thinking them through and writing them out. Which means that periodically in the super-saturated solution some of these little particles will glob together and nucleate and a crystallization process occurs that gives me a speech or a novel or a non fiction book or a big non-synthetic post that’s more like an essay or paper.”

• An essay about music and truth-telling.

“The performing arts, with their warm embrace of subjectivity, might not seem the most likely corrective amid this crisis. But they have much to teach us about the notion of truth. There is no great performance — not even a theatrical one whose surface is, by design, artifice — that doesn’t have truthfulness at its core. The search for truth is an artist’s life’s work.”

• A short film about time and memory.