The Beautiful Thinking

Beautiful Thoughts, cherry-picked by media monitoring professionals

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The Divine Comedy by Cecco Bonanotte

Have you ever dreamt to stare at the whole text of Dante’s Divine Comedy with just one glance? Then, if you happen to be in central Italy, for no reason you should miss out on a visit to the beauti…

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Eduardo Paolozzi and Wittgenstein

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 – 2005) was a British sculptor and artist whose beautiful mind conceived such masterpieces as the mosaic designs for Tottenham Court Road Station or the sculpture ‘Head o…

[benzank]

 Follow me into a swarm of bees, swallow everything you don’t believe 

@phantogram

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How buildings learn

Stewart Brand is an American writer, biologist, designer, former soldier, entrepreneur and Lord knows how many other personas. Soon to be 78 years old, he is one of those blokes that literally live…

[metricaprovince]

On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it’s so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.

Stewart Brand (via metricaprovince)

[austinkleon]

Why don’t you assume you’ve written your book already — and all you have to do now is find it?

Stewart Brand to Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices (via austinkleon)

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Revisionist History

“Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.” Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell’s latest work: a podcast developed in ten episodes over ten weeks that goes back and reinterprets some…

“Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.”

#RevisionistHistory is Malcolm Gladwell’s latest work: a #podcast developed in ten episodes over ten weeks that goes back and reinterprets some event, person, idea or thing from the past. Something overlooked or misunderstood: Gladwell examines the way the passage of time changes and enlightens our understanding of the world around us.

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Mindful Hands

Friday 16th September has seen the official opening of “Mindful Hands. Masterpieces of Illumination from the Fondazione Giorgio Cini”, a large exhibition staged on the Island of San Gio…

"An exhibition of miniatures is first of all the reconstruction of an atmosphere, an environment of strong character who knows how to tell the Middle Ages" - Michele De Lucchi

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One of Jacques Lacan’s seminars. 

[fyp-psychology]

All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.

Jacques Lacan, Seminar II (via fyp-psychology)

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1940s Modern Library editions of James Joyce classics

[larmoyante]

Absence, the highest form of presence.

James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (via larmoyante)