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Silphium
When the last known stalk of a Silphium plant was brought to Rome, it created a small sensation. According to the historian Pliny, it was given to emperor Nero as a curiosity. No Silphium had been...
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Tempyoo no Iraka
In my previous article Some thoughts about myself and earlier in Some notes on books I noted that I am not very interested in reading fiction. I don’t read many novels. One of the exceptions, in fact...
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Notes on Historism and Creativistic Philosophy
Reblogged from Creativistic Philosophy: Reading some texts about philosophy, I found the following citations that I find interesting in the context of creativistic philosophy. This is not (yet) the...
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Masanga – A Classic Tune from Jean Mwenda Bosco
Jean Mwenda Bosco‘s (1930 – 1990) guitar style was very influential both for East African and Congolese Music, especially the “Soukous”. He is not the only musician who played this style that...
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Freedom or Security?
From my European perspective, it looks like Americans have become quite mad. It is definitely a bad thing if some people put bombs in the public and kill and hurt people that way, but the reaction is...
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Preparing food
In pre-stone-age time, eating was simple: look for a fruit, pluck it, eat. In stone-age time, things started to become more complicated: Look for a fruit, pluck it. Take a stone knife, peel the...
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Reflexive Traffic Jams
You drive on a highway, and the traffic is dense, nearly a traffic jam. You notice that the cars on the next lane are overtaking you while your own lane is slow. You see a gap, take the opportunity...
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Power and Creativity
The human mind and human societies can be viewed as programmable systems. The way we think, i.e. process information, can be influenced by other information we absorb or create, so the rules or laws...
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Old Songs
The history of what happened to the first nations of Australia at the hands of the Europeans is a sad and cruel one and it is not really over yet, a story of genocides, murder, enslavement,...
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Musical Time Machine
When it comes to music, I like diversity. I like to enter my musical time machine and travel to different times and different places. There is so tremendously much good stuff and I am always astonished...
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Tools of Power
A tool to prevent crime and terrorism, in the hand of a government, seems to be a good thing on the face of it. But crime and terrorism are just other types of human activity. A system capable of...
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Phaeton
In Ovid’s „Metamorphoses“ there is he story of Phaeton, son of the solar god Helios and the Aithiopic queen Clymene, wife of the king Merops. Helios promises to his son to fulfill him one wish....
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Trans-Temporal Exploitation
Reblogged from Embassy of the Future: In the years before 2008, some bankers made tremendous profits. Where did all that money come from? One could say that it came from the future. The schemes used...
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The Playground
Heavy rain was pouring down. The sky was dark gray. I was standing at my kitchen window, looking down into the playground behind the house. The water was running down the slightly sloped way, into the...
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Rock Art
Some time ago, I have used this painting as an illustration for one of my poems (see Heading to Somewhere). Being located in the Tassili mountains in the Sahara (in what is now Algeria) in an area...
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Proprioceptive Art
There is visual art, like painting, and auditory art, like music. And there are more complex forms of art that are geared to several senses at once. For example, if dancers perform on stage with some...
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Are “Nature” and “Science” Scientifically Viable Concepts?
Science is the systematic study of nature. And we oppose this to the study of culture, the disciplines that are traditionally called the humanities. Sure, there are the “social sciences”, but in the...
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The Cloud
Reblogged from The Asifoscope: The cloud of gas and dust from which the solar system arose was more complex than you might think. Consider you had to write down a complete description of it, a theory...
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RAW Chemnitz-Hilbersdorf Monochrome
Reblogged from The Kellerdoscope: This is the second watercolor painting Svend Keller made of the RAW Chemnitz-Hilbersdorf factory. Unlike the first one in the previouns post, this one is a monochrome...
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RAW Chemnitz-Hilbersdorf
Reblogged from The Kellerdoscope: A watercolor painting made by Svend Keller (1928 - 2004) in 1948. At this time, Svend Keller was doing an apprenticeship as a graphic artist with his father, Rolf...
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