Oh how we mocked! Cretins of a bygone age Who, in antique delirium Dreamt the mighty sun Might stoop to circle earth Yet, since Galileo raged Enlightened hubris Girds still greater fantasies The axis now transects the will The cosmos orbits every man
Autumn exhaled her last A breath of swallows Sighed upon the south Before cold rags stopped up her mouth And cannon cracks of frost Felled the stragglers The low slung sun Now barely grazes poplars on the hill Cold light pressed low in furrows Glances from the sodden soil Frost maps out long shadows Moored …
“God is dead” they said Spoke nothing of the yawning blackThe dizzy plunge of orbit lostDischordant bass beneath the melody And yes we dress the vacancy Gaudy streamers festoon ruins Multicoloured bunting gaily flaps On pediments now tilted on the sand Few revellers peer in hollowed hearts To glimpse via cracks in blasted …
Flotsam skeins moist mineral margins A deferent sea sighs prostrations Dropped on lap of land Merging liminal strip shifts Spume fettled grit Untiring liturgy whispered Watery within the weightless gyre Fragments waver on foam-flecked fringes Windblown wanderers Shy of shifting shores Soil-bound sap-soaked retrospections faded Crystallised to caustic catatonia Salt bleached slumberers The spindrift …
[This is #4 in a series of posts exploring information: what is it, where does it come from, and what does it teach us about ourselves and the reality in which we live. – #1 can be found here] When encoding information using symbols, it doesn’t fundamentally matter what physical carriers are used to display …
[This is #3 in a series of posts exploring information: what is it, where does it come from, and what does it teach us about ourselves and the reality in which we live. – #1 can be found here] As we have seen, not all information is equal in character. Particularly, it seems that the …
[This is #2 in a series of posts exploring information: what is it, where does it come from, and what does it teach us about ourselves and the reality in which we live. – #1 can be found here] When Bach sat to write his great works, he encoded sequences of tones in time, he …
[This is #1 in a series of posts exploring information: what is it, where does it come from, and what does it teach us about ourselves and the reality in which we live.] You may want to listen to the above while you read this post! The year is 1720. Johann Sebastien Bach sits in …
[This post explores whether social media spaces are just tools for human communication, or whether there is are more spiritual elements driving our behaviour online.] Social media spaces are geared towards performative behaviours. In them, we become actors; we post to target an audience response. We may pretend social media is a communication tool, but it …
What does it look like to have a healthy attitude towards digital technology? How can we avoid becoming its slaves, and instead make it our servant for the things that really matter? How is our habit forming affected by easy access to the internet? What do our behaviours online tell us about ourselves? How can …
