Tag: Criticism

  • What I Read

    I’ve spent Christmas and the New Years up at the acreage; my bees are happily buzzing around when it’s warm, and hiding when it isn’t. This is their nature. Mine is apparently to hide away in a cabin, emerging to walk my dogs, write occasionally, read a lot, and just kind of luxuriate in having…

  • On “Cornelius Cardew : A Life Unfinished”

    I had a couple of friends in college who both underwent huge personality changes during the time I knew them, both after encountering some philosophical concept that fundamentally changed their understanding of the world around them; one, unfortunately encountered Ayn Rand, and immediately embraced her — I don’t want to dignify it by calling it…

  • Wittgenstein and Graphical Scores

    This is a paper I wrote for my Wittgenstein class. I liked it enough to put it here; I think there are some good ideas in it– I wish I had more time to expand some of them, and refute some of the things I read in others, but like all assignments, this had a…

  • Year End Reading Wrap-up

    This year, according to Storygraph, I have finished 66 books. That’s not entirely accurate, as Storygraph has no way to distinguish between books and stories; and it counts “Hop-Frog”, at 25 pages, as a book. I’m gonna run with it, not because I log every page I read (I read a lot of articles for…

  • Hits from the Zettlekasten/”Tampa”

    I wrote a bit about the war of the zettlekasten as my last entry, and have been keeping two separate ones; one is a set of notes on Philosophy, thus far really just notes and nodes as I read Bertrand Russell, and another which is for… life stuff, the novel I am perpetually not writing,…

  • Booktube Bitch/”253″/What I am Reading

    Let’s start by bitching a little. I heard about “253” from a booktube video. And it’s sort of a miracle I did. A lot of booktube videos now are listicles, with a picture of some dingus making a face while holding a stack of books *backwards* so you can’t read the spines and thus spoil…

  • Not Finishing “Clarissa”/Summer Blahs/What I am Reading

    I am, according to Kindle, roughly 65% of the way through Clarissa, which is about 1000 pages or so in. At my present rate of speed, (again, according to Kindle) it would take me a further 24 hours or so to finish it. I read the first 800 pages or so with an enthusiasm I…

  • One of Those Entries Where I Write About a Number of Things

    A Creative Endeavor In a day or two, I’m gonna publish a little story I wrote. It’s never been my intent to turn this into an outlet for my creative pursuits, but it’s been a long time since I have written a story. I’ve alluded to this before, but I used to write quite a…

  • Roughly 1000 words about Power Electronics and Fernanda Melchor

    Let’s talk about Power Electronics. It’s a genre of music largely credited to the band “Whitehouse” (which is really more or less just one person, but for the record, I am a fan of those sorts of shenanigans). Whitehouse’s output basically consists of high pitched synth noises, very loud kick drum noises, and shouting. On…

  • The Death of ‘Sironia, Texas’ and notes about this year’s reading.

    So, “Sironia, Texas” didn’t happen. I got through 100 pages or so, and it wasn’t all that good. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, at least from a blogging perspective. We could deconstruct the text, see what’s working, what isn’t, and why; analyzing what’s bad can sometimes illuminate what’s good. But “Sironia, Texas” also indulges…