in towns too small

ⱴictoria is from unceded coast salish territory (vancouver island). "Aristotle tells us that the highpitched voice of the female is one evidence of her evil disposition, for creatures who are brave or just (like lions, bulls, roosters, and the human male) have large deep voices". (Anne Carson, Physiognomics, the Gender of Sound)

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Killer Whale

Kyran Yeomans

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Tiny peek of tonight's painting ❤️

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Ingeborg Bachmann's "Dream of Language" - Boston Review

Her critical writings explore the interrelations of philosophy and poetry, politics and prose—all against the backdrop of a society remaking

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Disappearing Into Motherhood | ART PAPERS

Through the work of Susan Bee, Mira Schor, Irene Lusztig, Carmen Winant, & Annesofie Sandal, motherhood becomes a space through which the ar

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Chantal Akerman (1950 - 2015)

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The Psyche and the Carrion

This is a draft version of my short talk given at John Hope Franklin, Duke university: The Psyche and the Carrion This presentation is cente

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What The Zoom Controversy Teaches Us About AI and Consent

A blog post about the challenges to informed consent in AI; the risks of dark design patterns; and what to do about it.

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It is not difficult to get hold of the general principles of the mnemonic. The first step was to imprint on the memory a series of loci or places. The commonest, though not the only, type of mnemonic place system used was the architectural type. The clearest description of the process is that given by Quintilian.

In order to form a series of places in memory, he says, a building is to be remembered, as spacious and varied a one as possible, the forecourt, the living room, bedrooms, and parlours, not omitting statues and other ornaments with which the rooms are decorated. The images by which the speech is to be remembered—as an example of these Quintilian says one may use an anchor or a weapon—are then placed in imagination on the places which have been memorised in the building.

This done, as soon as the memory of the facts requires to be revived, all these places are visited in turn and the various deposits demanded of their custodians. We have to think of the ancient orator as moving in imagination through his memory building whilst he is making his speech, drawing from the memorised places the images he has placed on them. The method ensures that the points are remembered in the right order, since the order is fixed by the sequence of places in the building. Quintilian's examples of the anchor and the weapon as images may suggest that he had in mind a speech which dealt at one point with naval matter.

Francis B. Yates

The Art of Memory

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Scientists Find the Source of a Mysterious Brain Wave That Could Boost Memory and Creativity

By finding the driving source of theta waves, we could potentially enhance them to slow cognitive decline.

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Causality in Mental Disturbance: A Review of the Neuroscience

Psychiatry's medicalization of social and psychological suffering is not justified by the currently known biology.

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