📚Thrilling excerpt from John Lennon, 1980: The Last Days in the Life in Smithsonian Magazine. I just bought the e-book version.
“I hope I die before Yoko,” he said, “because if Yoko died I wouldn’t know how to survive. I couldn’t carry on.”
🗞 Great interactive article on ubiquitous generative adversarial networks in The New York Times
“We created our own A.I. system to understand how easy it is to generate different fake faces.”
When one thinks of Gilles Deleuze, Stoicism might not be the first thing that comes to mind.
Indeed. The Logic of Sense is now definitely one of the first books on my reading list.
🗞The President’s Taxes. Some serious investigative journalism by The New York Times, that reads like a fairytale.
“It was springtime at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, and the favor-seekers were swarming”
(The article and infographics alone are worth my online subscription)
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
Anne Frank 💬📚
I’m slowly progressing with Anne Frank’s Diary of a young girl (my first reading in my adult lifetime). This quote is encouraging me to keep writing my diary whenever possible.
Currently reading in the hammock in our garden: On the Shortness of Life by Seneca 📚
Currently reading: Space and place by Yi-fu Tuan 📚
So far, it’s a very inspiring read. The book starts by describing how a young child experiences the spatial world and how that impacts all later experiences in life.
📚 From A to B and Back Again - The Philosophy of Andy Warhol ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
📚 Books to read (or to finally finish) this summer:
Andy Warhol - From A to B and back again - The philosophy of Andy Warhol
Yi-Fu Tuan - Space and Place - The Perspective of Experience
Anne Frank - Het Achterhuis
Ron Gorow - Hearing and Writing Music
Seneca - Dialogues
📚💬 I keep on quoting Andy Warhol. In unexpected ways he can be like a kindred spirit of mine whilst being the exact opposite of me. As a country boy living in the city, this one stood out to me in this regard.
📚 Currently reading On the happy life / On the shortness of life by Seneca. A great book with a lot of useful material for Stoic meditation.
📚 Currently reading Space and Place - The perspective of Experience (1977) by Yi-Fu Tuan, as part of my research for an upcoming project based on the history of the typical Dutch polder landscape.
📚Currently reading The Act of Will by Roberto Assagioli.
📚Very excited to read From A to B and Back Again - The philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975)
📚Currently reading Steal like an artist by Austin Kleon.
📚 Finished pt. 1 of Man’s search for meaning by Victor Frankl and it really is a life changing book. There’s so much to learn from a man who has endured the horrors of the holocaust.
“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.”
Watching the most beautiful woman in the world comes at a price...
📚 Yet another book on my wish list. Reporting a year after the fact would be unheard of today Mr Straight Arrow: The Career of John Hersey, Author of Hiroshima
”All news was slow news. Emphasis was on style, substance and accuracy. Now it is on speed and sensation at any cost”
”I wanted to put it all together under one roof so people could see how these things are inevitably connected and how it all shares one crystal clarity: that growth must come to an end.”
Vaclav Smil on his book Growth, in a great interview with The Guardian
Very curious about this book. The Penetrating Gaze of One of America’s Most Brilliant Art Critics
I enjoyed reading this essay: Bring back science and philosophy as natural philosophy
Keep alive rational thinking about fundamental problems as specialisation becomes rampant
Currently reading: How to be a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci.