Resonant Thoughts
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Resonant Thoughts: Carlo Rovelli’s “The Order Of Time” (2018)
“What we call ‘time’ is a complex collection of structures, of layers” (4). “There is not one single time; there is a vast multitude of them” (16). “Time passes more slowly for the one who keeps moving” (38). “Time is the measurement of change” (63). “Time is nothing but the registering of movement” (64). “We… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Ian Bostridge’s “Schubert’s Winter Journey ” (2015)
“For all of us, unless we’re making a special and determined effort of analysis, our encounter with music is more episodic and even cavalier, less relentlessly theoretical—even when we’re listening to a piece from the great tradition that presents itself as musical argument, a Beethoven symphony for example, or a Bach fugue. Within as diffuse… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Deckle Edge’s “Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts
“Against a rising tide of automation and increasing digital complexity, we are becoming further divorced from the very thing that defines us: we are makers, crafters of things. When our lives once comprised an almost unbroken chain of movements and actions as we interacted physically with the material requirements of our existence, today we stare… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Erling Kagge’s “Silence” (2017)
“Negative beauty—by virtue of all that is not present.” “I am constantly interrupted, interruptions engendered by other interruptions. I rummage around in a world that has little to do with me. Attempt to be effective until I realize I won’t get any further regardless of how effective I’ve become.” “The essential thing is the contrast… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Ulf Olson’s “Listening For The Secret” (2017)
“There is…an interesting dialectic of tradition and Avant-Garde at the heart of the Grateful Dead’s music, a dialectic that might be generated by the larger dislocations taking place on a worldwide scale, but enacted within a community, forming around a group of musicians, that would gradually grow until it would become a national, and to… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Unlearning And Disciplined Dissidence In Andy Merrifield’s “The Amateur” (2017)
“I consider myself as deschooled: I learned how to unlearn, and continue to follow the twisted path of ‘disciplined dissidence.’”* (*“Disciplined dissidence” is a phrase of Ivan Illich, who speaks of it in his Deschooling Society as a quality “which cannot be measured against any rod, or any curriculum, nor compared to someone else’s achievements”… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Agnes Martin On Living By Perception
Agnes Martin, Friendship (1963) “You see, if you live by perception, as all artists must, then you sometimes have to wait for a long time for your mind to tell you the next step to take.” (“‘What We Make, Is What We Feel’: Agnes Martin on Her Meditative Practice, in 1976” available at artnews) Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Ray Dalio On Radical Transparency
“Radical open-mindedness and radical transparency are invaluable for rapid learning and effective change. Learning is the product of a continuous real-time feedback loop in which we make decisions, see their outcomes, and improve our understanding of reality as a result. Being radically open-minded enhances the efficiency of those feedback loops, because it makes what… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Barbara Gail Montero’s “Thought In Action” (2016)
“In the arts the best performances allow observers to witness some deliberate, conscious thought in action. Consider the difference between listening to someone lecture on her feet and listening to someone read a paper…The performance bereft of the mind would be, in certain respects, like watching a machine: although the output could be amazing, the… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Jaron Lanier’s “Dawn of the New Everything” (2017)
“When we think technology can surpass our bodies in a comprehensive way, we are forgetting what we know about our bodies and physical reality. The universe doesn’t have infinitely fine grains, and the body is already tuned in as finely as anything can ever be, when it needs to be” (49). “The unceasing flow of… Continue reading
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