Gonna restart blogging, probably on a new site.
Thinking between Wordpress and Tumblr. Any advice?
Thinking between Wordpress and Tumblr. Any advice?
Sunday, November 07, 2010
Friday, July 24, 2009
Friday, January 16, 2009
days
2 very thought-provoking and meaningful days/causes.
http://www.nonphotographyday.com/
http://www.nomusicday.com/home.php
- if you know me well, you will know that I usually don't take photographs. I am not anti-photography - I am mere standing for Non-Photography. The descriptions of the Non-Photograph Day gives a a good and simple introduction to the reasoning behind my stance. I will present a more extensive and thorough reasoning of my own here when I have time.javascript:void(0)
- if you know me well, you will know that I love music. but if you know me better, you will know that I don't own or listen to an iPod/CD player. I listen to Mahler Symphony no.5 for nearly an hour intensely and focusedly, but I don't listen to (background or accompanying) music when I write paper or work out in the gym (which is a rare occurrence). Do notice that I said "I do/don't listen" and not "I can/can't listen." It is a conscious choice. Again, I will present my dear readers my justification for the stance.
http://www.nonphotographyday.com/
http://www.nomusicday.com/home.php
- if you know me well, you will know that I usually don't take photographs. I am not anti-photography - I am mere standing for Non-Photography. The descriptions of the Non-Photograph Day gives a a good and simple introduction to the reasoning behind my stance. I will present a more extensive and thorough reasoning of my own here when I have time.javascript:void(0)
- if you know me well, you will know that I love music. but if you know me better, you will know that I don't own or listen to an iPod/CD player. I listen to Mahler Symphony no.5 for nearly an hour intensely and focusedly, but I don't listen to (background or accompanying) music when I write paper or work out in the gym (which is a rare occurrence). Do notice that I said "I do/don't listen" and not "I can/can't listen." It is a conscious choice. Again, I will present my dear readers my justification for the stance.
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Saturday, November 29, 2008
life
so much dust here. it's been awhile since I last penned down my thoughts in this blog. it will be really surprising if anyone still read this.
needless to say, so much has happened this semester. somehow I manage to have at least one drama or crisis every semester I've been here. but one quote always comes to my mind, as I look back in retrospect:
"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk."
if you haven't known yet (which is very understandable), I am majoring in Philosophy too (alongside with Econ). ironically, it was an impulsive decision. but I am sure that it is nonetheless a great decision, one that is perhaps life-changing when I look back in the future.
needless to say, so much has happened this semester. somehow I manage to have at least one drama or crisis every semester I've been here. but one quote always comes to my mind, as I look back in retrospect:
"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk."
if you haven't known yet (which is very understandable), I am majoring in Philosophy too (alongside with Econ). ironically, it was an impulsive decision. but I am sure that it is nonetheless a great decision, one that is perhaps life-changing when I look back in the future.
Labels: life, philosophy, wesleyan
Thursday, April 17, 2008
http://www.edge.org/
The role of the intellectual includes communicating. Intellectuals are not just people who know things but people who shape the thoughts of their generation. An intellectual is a synthesizer, a publicist, a communicator. In his 1987 book The Last Intellectuals, the cultural historian Russell Jacoby bemoaned the passing of a generation of public thinkers and their replacement by bloodless academicians. He was right, but also wrong. The third- culture thinkers are the new public intellectuals.
America now is the intellectual seedbed for Europe and Asia. This trend started with the prewar emigration of Albert Einstein and other European scientists and was further fueled by the post- Sputnik boom in scientific education in our universities. The emergence of the third culture introduces new modes of intellectual discourse and reaffirms the preeminence of America in the realm of important ideas. Throughout history, intellectual life has been marked by the fact that only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody else. What we are witnessing is a passing of the torch from one group of thinkers, the traditional literary intellectuals, to a new group, the intellectuals of the emerging third culture.
"Science is the only news. When you scan through a newspaper or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he- said- she- said, the politics and economics the same sorry cyclic dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness, and even the technology is predictable if you know the science. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly."
The role of the intellectual includes communicating. Intellectuals are not just people who know things but people who shape the thoughts of their generation. An intellectual is a synthesizer, a publicist, a communicator. In his 1987 book The Last Intellectuals, the cultural historian Russell Jacoby bemoaned the passing of a generation of public thinkers and their replacement by bloodless academicians. He was right, but also wrong. The third- culture thinkers are the new public intellectuals.
America now is the intellectual seedbed for Europe and Asia. This trend started with the prewar emigration of Albert Einstein and other European scientists and was further fueled by the post- Sputnik boom in scientific education in our universities. The emergence of the third culture introduces new modes of intellectual discourse and reaffirms the preeminence of America in the realm of important ideas. Throughout history, intellectual life has been marked by the fact that only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody else. What we are witnessing is a passing of the torch from one group of thinkers, the traditional literary intellectuals, to a new group, the intellectuals of the emerging third culture.
"Science is the only news. When you scan through a newspaper or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he- said- she- said, the politics and economics the same sorry cyclic dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness, and even the technology is predictable if you know the science. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly."
