What was broken about animation that now we think we have to do it with sophisticated computer programs? What was incomplete about reality that we feel we have to mine it digitally?
In the case of animation, the supreme irony is that computer-generated images are now being modified to try to enhance their expressiveness, not [...]
It’s not enough that Derrida had to pass, but now Susan Sontag is dead too.
It may just be that the argument over Creationism vs. Evolution is largely semantic. That makes it no less real, of course.
If Evolutionists are right (and I think the probably are), nature herself is actually vastly intelligent, more so than human beings are able at this stage of the game to fully understand. And [...]
from Special Correspondent T.S. deHaviland
I’m always surprised when the analysts employed by commercial media outlets are confounded and amazed at the perennially stagnant holiday shopping season, especially when they’re called upon to pontificate about the lackluster sales numbers for America’s discount retailers like Wal-Mart and Target. All their befuddlement really shows is to which demographic [...]
Occasionally, I give up on certain things actually making it to print publication. That does not mean I’m not proud of those particular works, but, because they’re too obscure or interesting or whatever, the print journals all pass on them.
And, if they’re not satirical either, I’m sort of at a loss as to what to [...]
We can think of war as a highly ritualized form of human sacrifice.
The justifications for war are, as often as not, as far-fetched and fanciful as those put forth by past cultures for the ritual killing of virgins or criminals, daughters or sons. Whereas human sacrifice used to be practiced to assure good harvests or [...]
After reading Lewis Thomas’s wonderful essay from 1974 called “The Technology of Medicine,” I have come to the disturbing realization that perhaps health care costs are rising out of control because the medical industry simply does not want them under control. As long as insurance picks up the bill, health care providers have little interest [...]