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• Numbers: The Mandelbrot Set

  By Curt on December 5, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  “Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.” – Latin saying “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” – Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr An eternity of waves tattoos the sand In foam, embroiders it with seaweed, scarifies and brands The verge… Read More ›

• Numbers: The Comment Field

  By Curt on November 21, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

   “I simply hold that it is difficult to make oneself understood, not absolutely impossible.” – Eugene Ionesco The Comment Field By Curt Hopkins We find salvation in this: Vulgarity as a right, A colonizing meme, which Finds our souls then… Read More ›

• Future’s Past: How the Theban Mapping Project’s Effort to Document Ancient Egypt Has Also Documented the Contemporary History of Technological Innovation

  By Curt on November 12, 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  The dominant picture of an archaeologist is that of a khaki-clad explorer, probably “intrepid,” outlined in the setting sun of an exotic local, patiently brushing the dust away from a pot partially embedded in a grid of stakes and strings, occasionally… Read More ›

• Numbers: A heavy stone

  By Curt on November 7, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

   “What happens when a new work of art is created is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art that proceeded it. “ — T.S. Eliot  “Nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben ist barbarisch.” — Theodor Adorno  … Read More ›

• Numbers: Men’s Rights

  By Curt on October 17, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  “For this too is the lot of man.”— Siduri the Wine Maker, Gilgamesh If strippers are a kind of walking wounded, Where do all our crippled menfolk go To hide between the worm and green corn moon? The crystal lattices… Read More ›

• Numbers: Some Thoughts on the Umbrella Revolution

  By Curt on October 10, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  The color of truth is gray.” – Andre Gide I remember Tiananmen. The end Was blood, and silence. I remember Tahrir Square, the broken bones that do not mend, And in Yangon, the monks who died at prayer. I saw… Read More ›

• Numbers: Lingua Nova

  By Curt on October 3, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  “Language has run riot in an age of mass communication. It must be reduced to its proper function – the expression of authentic content, rather than its concealment.” Martin Esslin If Anonymous is not a hacking gang, With a master… Read More ›