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Mike Kitchell: his big screening log.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: “Don’t tell my publishers, but as soon as I see a book of mine in the stores, my book is dead for me. My book is only alive when I am still writing it otherwise it does not respond to me anymore (Socrates who hated the written word said the same about the statues of Daedalus: you cannot talk to them). I only like to talk about things (LIKE THIS) I am writing.” and “I was explaining Antifragility to my Italian publisher: a writer is antifragile, a blue-collar worker robust, others fragile. If I beat up an economist, I would spent a few days in an Italian jail, but book sales would shoot up and my message wd be authentic. People would be convinced of the validity of my DeVany-style workout. If a corporate executive did the same his career …” Both of those from his Facebook.
Kickstarter: Howard Glitch, a multimedia jigsaw puzzle.
Tags: antifragility, howard glitch, kickstarter, Mike Kitchell, movies, nassim taleb
Mike’s cinema list is awesome! Instead of finishing the work I’m suppose to complete this evening, I’m ogling his entries and jotting down notes right and left. So much new stuff to track down!
Mike? I tend to stutter when I say your name. Big screen log is fun. PJ Stoles.
You can talk to books, and to statues. They’ll answer some of your questions.
Plato’s Socrates explained his distrust of written words in more than that one way (for another example, he also explains, by way of a foreign myth, that writing is a thief of memory). Plato’s Socrates does this explaining in books (which I’m listening to, and arguing with, right now). This self-contradiction is sometimes called ‘radical performative contradiction’; other times, ‘irony’.
Plato’s Socrates was not wrong to distrust writing. Nor was Plato wrong to write books. That is another layer or aspect or radiance of irony.
In my small experience, Nassim, there’s lots of people harder ‘to talk to’ than Plato’s books are.
Mike’s cinema list is awesome! Instead of finishing the work I’m suppose to complete this evening, I’m ogling his entries and jotting down notes right and left. So much new stuff to track down!
here’s may of 07, which isn’t included in that link, for semi-completists, hah!
http://esotikalog.blogspot.com/2007/07/may-2007.html
Thanks!
I really like the look and sound of the Glitch project. I wonder if the writing’s any good.
Nassim Taleb has got to be the least modest person ever. At least he didn’t throw any Latin into this quip.