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All creative people should keep lists (and work in series). If creative work is in the flow of your life, why not begin the serial process and follow it through? A natural branching occurs the longer you do it. But the objective is not only to gather and glean, but to also cultivate and prune the list, and give it power to be generative.
This is where science is useful to the humanities, and vice versa. One can make lots of art and do lots of science, but for what larger purpose as a civilization?
"...to take stock of the trajectory of research that led up to this point and, even more important, to assess which of the branching paths of possible future research might prove the most promising."
Can Liberal Education Save the Sciences?
What I have noticed is that we have big mountains of content but there is no way to see the entire range or ranges. They are essentially being mined for resources. Facebook is a mining company in that metaphor, but they don't produce anything with the resources. They sort it, which at some level is generative, but for what purpose?
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Aaron Siskind's abstract series:
Aaron Siskind. Chicago 7. 1961 | MoMA
This is where science is useful to the humanities, and vice versa. One can make lots of art and do lots of science, but for what larger purpose as a civilization?
"...to take stock of the trajectory of research that led up to this point and, even more important, to assess which of the branching paths of possible future research might prove the most promising."
Can Liberal Education Save the Sciences?
What I have noticed is that we have big mountains of content but there is no way to see the entire range or ranges. They are essentially being mined for resources. Facebook is a mining company in that metaphor, but they don't produce anything with the resources. They sort it, which at some level is generative, but for what purpose?
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Aaron Siskind's abstract series:
Aaron Siskind. Chicago 7. 1961 | MoMA
