Para leer en este 2014
In honor of #readwomen2014 – an effort to equalize the gender imbalance in our collective reading habits – here are 14 fantastic, timeless reads by women:
Joan Didion on self-respect
Susan Sontag on photography as aesthetic consumerism and a form of modern violence
Virginia Woolf on the creative benefits of keeping a diary
Annie Dillard on presence over productivity
Helen Keller on optimism
Alexandra Horowitz on the blinders of attention
Anaïs Nin on why emotional excess is essential to creativity
Hannah Arendt on how bureaucracy fuels violence
Jennifer Finney Boylan on what it’s like to be a transgender parent
Anissa Ramirez on saving science education
Jeanette Winterson on adoption and how we use storytelling to save ourselves
Dani Shapiro on the pleasures and perils of the creative life
Virginia Woolf on how to read a book
Susan Sontag on literature and freedom
Artwork above by Joanna Walsh
La perfecta belleza de un mundo no tan perfecto
Right!
Via @mhernz: #carbonfiber? #bikenanaman #adik #bilina
Analytical philosophy, or some recognizable descendant of it, should be able to make a richer contribution to ethics than has often been the case up to now. If it is to do so, it will need to hold on to two truths which it tends to forget (not only in ethics, but most damagingly there): that philosophy cannot be too pure, and must merge with other kinds of understanding; and that being soberly truthful does not exclude, but may actually demand, the imagination.
Bernard Williams “Contemporary Philosophy: A Second Look”
But most intensely love for that other thing, the sound-absorbent screen, life’s white machine, shadows massing in the middle distance, although that’s not even close, the texture of et cetera itself
Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station
The meaning of life
Así suena el Laigo Baikal
They teach us to prey forgiveness But I won"t swallow what they feed us
El sonido de la libertad, el sonido de la bicicleta
This is amazing: Composer Johnnyrandom creates an entire track solely out of sounds made by a bicycle. Also available as an inverted MtB remix.
Complement with other experimental music sampling from unusual objects.
(via The Dish)