If I’m understanding this correctly, just about everything in modern construction is a skeuomorph. I’ll limit myself to: stone veneer used in lieu of stone masonry construction.
a particularly egregious example
Skeuomorphs
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An argument for arts in the university your brother-in-law could understand
That said, Egan’s dichotomous arrangement of human intelligence is worth a strong riposte.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/22/opinion/egan-creativity-vs-quants.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Nonsense on Stilts
I greatly enjoyed the seminar on Friday. Amy’s talk reminded me of this book and I thought I would share it would the group. It’s even written by a fellow CUNY professor.
Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
Sample review:
Lou Marinoff | Times Higher Education
“How is an intelligent layperson with general interests, or for that matter a narrow but deeply focused specialist, supposed to make sense of the torrents of nonsense that spew from all directions? How can we distinguish fact from fancy, medicine from snake-oil, science from bunk? What hangs in the balance? And who dares plumb the fathomless depths of data, teeming with creatures contradictory and controversial alike? Enter Massimo Pigliucci, a brave volunteer for this mission….His book serves a seriously worthwhile purpose: that of giving you, the reader, tools and instructions for assembling your very own ‘baloney-detector.’ Armed with this, you stand a vastly improved chance of separating the wheat of reliable knowledge from the chaff of fashionable nonsense in your daily harvest of data.”
Perspective on the role of the humanities in entertainment technology education
John Huntington from Entertainment Tech shared this provocative article that he wrote for Theater Design & Technology (2002):
Happy City
Interesting book review in the NYT relevant to several of our topics:
Shane Carruth – Upstream Color and Primer
Two unsettling, not-quite dystopian takes on technological intervention, interconnectivity, place, and people, “Primer” and “Upstream Color” are both worth a watch. Writer, director, actor, and composer Shane Carruth builds compelling universes with aural and visual landscapes so convoluted that they are best explained with maps or stick puppets.
Tarkovsky
The filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky came to mind at the last meeting. “Solaris” is a strange psychological journey through space and “Stalker” has a distinctly dystopian, post-apocalyptic feel. Both films examine the metaphysical layers beneath science, technology, junk, waste, etc. We may want to check one of these out as a group or individually.
Chris
