Culture
On art, music, and beauty.
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Attention and Emotion: Can we love without paying attention?
Liel Leibovitz, in County Highway, draws a line between our decreasing attention spans and our lack of emotion: What we have here, then, is a…
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The Enemy is Numbness: It’s not just design that seems bland
There is a pervasive feeling that modernity is bland: Buildings, clothes, cars and interior design are minimalist and identical everywhere. Emotional blandness or numbness gets…
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Silent Night, Silently: Singing in sign language
“Why would a chorus need a sign language interpreter?” I thought as the performance began. On the stage in front of me stood a hundred…
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Edge.org: A formative resource for me, but yikes
For more than a decade, John Brockman’s Edge was one of my favorite websites. I’d visit every few days to check for new posts by…
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Pretty, Please: Don’t relegate beauty
The gay community has resisted cultural blandness more and better than any other. Ryan Khurana on Palladium: By the early 20th century, dedication to aesthetic…
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Overfitting Towards Blandness: The lowest common denominator
Our culture has become bland, as evidenced by fashion, building, cars, book covers, and household objects all looking the same. Even people seem to be…
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