“Then there’s that beautiful moment at the height of creation when someone will lean back in their chair and say ‘sounds like a record’, signifying that the whole finally transcends the parts”. Richard James Burgess I Introduction The purpose of this paper is to examine the process of mixing a music record in order to […]
“Those who believe in heaven on earth, he said, are creating hell -he made it sound that way too- it was very lucid”. Greene Graham Our Man in Havana,[1] I Introduction: Conditions of Belief The main goal of Hobbes’s theory of state is to secure peace[2]. Peace is for Hobbes the only possible road to […]
Karl Löwith’s reading of Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence of the Same Introduction Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same is a strange book. And it is strange in the strictest sense. It has been a stranger in the corpus of books that are commonly used as interpretative tools to unveil Nietzsche’s work. There are […]
(On Peirce’s Categories and the Community of Inquirers) I -Science as a social process- One of the main characteristics of Peirce’s philosophy of science is its social dimension. Against Cartesian solipsism, Peirce raises a series of counter-arguments that challenge both the intellectual process of attaining a truth–or, at least, a trustworthy conclusion-, grounded in all […]
L’Oriol Malet és l’il·lustrador oficial de la secció sobre NY que faig a Rac1. El talent de l’Oriol només el supera la seva generositat. www.oriolmalet.com Podeu escoltar les seccions aquí: http://rac1.org/elmon/seccions/nova-york-a-quarts-de-15/
Mahler 3a Simfonia, 1er moviment I. El Pablo em va trucar ahir per dir-me que li sobrava una entrada per anar a veure la 3a simfonia de Mahler al Carnegie Hall. M’he llevat amb aquest pensament fresc, però tard. Ahir vaig anar a dormir a les tantes, entretingut per un mal humor general i inversemblants […]
Un home de govern publica un article criticant les línies mestres del partit que l’emplea i l’endemà el govern, el partit i la premsa es centren en la lluita de faccions que aquest article explica. Està bé, és justificable i fins i tot desitjable que ens ajudin a comprendre les contraccions intestinals o els estertors […]
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Una història sopranesca cedida gentilment per la con-becària Marta Martínez per a aquest blog In the store window of Grande Monuments, next to a pale statue of Mother Mary, there’s a golden rack full of crispy handmade bread. Jerry Ragusa, third generation owner of the Williamsburg funerary business on Graham Avenue, has added focaccias, baguettes […]
[Magnífica il·lustració de l’Oriol Malet. www.oriolmalet.com] La professora Heller també fa menys de metre i mig, com la meva àvia Tresina, i també és molt eixerida, sobretot tenint present que té 80 anys. La setmana passada va acabar el seu seminari sobre l’ètica de Kant. Diuen que és la seva darrera classe. Malgrat el seu […]