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I read it a few years ago. I enjoyed it, I suppose, but I haven't felt tempted to go back. It's a bit too long for what it is, and some of the more gimmicky 'experimental' parts get pretty tiring pretty fast - the bits where some text is sideways, or upside-down, or both on the same page, for...

Dunno if this should go here or in the thought folder, really. Anyway, does anyone have any interesting thoughts on musical languages? I don't really know that much about them. What I'm mainly thinking about is attempts to create an artificial language (usually one with a potentially global...

I'm not sure it's really a matter of escaping the disciplinary role 'foisted on' teachers by society; I really don't know how possible that is. It's very hard to get children to learn, or at least to take in, understand, remember and use pieces of information, without to some extent moulding...

One of the recent threads in this forum branched off into a discussion about teachers, which I found kind of interesting, or at least more interesting than Badiou or whatever the thread had originally been about. There seemed to be two, fairly extreme and very different, opinions: either that...

Man, Indie's not dead. Ned's Atomic Dustbin are on a comeback tour RIGHT NOW, you know. See, it's true.

' ... anti-Catholicism is no different to anti-fascism'. Eh? That's a pretty silly thing to say, really. It's like something out of a sixth-year debate. John Eden makes one good counter-point, but the main problem is that the whole 'argument' hinges on an extremely simplistic, not to say...

Bruce Sterling? Snowcrash is by Neal Stephenson, innit? I read it a couple of weeks ago, thought it was pretty good., especially the Sumerian stuff. Funny, too. It's probably not really what you're after, but Maxine Sheets-Johnstone's The Roots of Thinking has some interesting stuff on...