My username, zocheret/ צוחקות means "to remember" in Hebrew. I find it entirely apt considering this section in Ryan dealing with the idea of narrative and history, and how humans structure their memories, their experiences, as narrative. So it is any small wonder that I seized on this passage in Ryan, "taking the Holocaust test"? Yet again, the ( Read more... )

I'm habitually interested in the ways new technology resembles old forms, how we habitually re-invent the wheel, just to assure ourselves that this new thing is just as good and reliable as something older. So upon browsing through Bush's "As We May Think" again, I was struck by the illustration on page 40 of the universal-focus lens camera. To ( Read more... )