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And then, there is the Digital Alchemist …
And then, there is the Digital Alchemist …
33 Posts from December 2016
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Latin Reader: Virtus Unita Fortior
Laura Gibbs on Okay, I had really sworn off new Latin projects a few years ago (after my school turned down every request I made to teach Latin over a ten-year period... yes, even I can learn, eventually, to stop banging my head against the wall, ha ha). But now, with this new alchemy project, I don't think I can resist: this combination of image and text is irresistible. So, slowly but surely, I am going to start piecing together a Latin Alchemical […]
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Roos. Alchemy and Mysticism (2)
Laura Gibbs on Here are the other summary posts from Roos's Alchemy and Mysticism. I'm still on the Introduction to the book, starting today at p. 15.Roos is now zooming in on German traditions, including the court of Emperor Rudolf II, "known as the German Hermes, whose Prague court was home to the most famous esoteric scientists of the day."There is now the first image of a book by Athanasius Kircher: the Turris Babel. That's at Hathi Trust: Athanasii Kircheri Turris Babel sive Archontologia […]
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Tracing Photo Back to a Personal Account
tellio on Mike Caulfield on his blog Hapgood (or should we call him HapGoogle) shows us a “work outloud” on fact-checking and the unsung art of the crap detection. I will be using this example in my class next semester as well as creating a few of my own for the new year. I like to think of this as a re-telling of a very old story of the examined versus the unexamined life. Caulfield’s post is an extended paean to the […]
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Roos. Alchemy and Mysticism (1)
Laura Gibbs on So, I got a Christmas present for myself, a lovely picture book from Taschen: Alchemy and Mysticism by Alexander Roos. I'm going to work through 10 pages per day (hopefully), and see just how many of these image resources I can find also in online versions! I'll label these posts as Roos to collect them.IntroductionThe first topic of the Introduction is Hermes Trismegistus, with an image of The Emerald Tablet from Khunrath's Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae, 1606. Roos includes this famous […]
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Roos. Alchemy and Mysticism (1)
Laura Gibbs on So, I got a Christmas present for myself, a lovely picture book from Taschen: Alchemy and Mysticism by Alexander Roos. I'm going to work through 10 pages per day (hopefully), and see just how many of these image resources I can find also in online versions! I'll label these posts as Roos to collect them.IntroductionThe first topic of the Introduction is Hermes Trismegistus, with an image of The Emerald Tablet from Khunrath's Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae, 1606. Roos includes this famous […]
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Three Networked Narratives
tellio on This is the tale of three networked narratives. I am jumping the gun a bit on Alan Levine and Mia Zamora’s online course, Elements of Networked Narrative (Spring 2017) by offering a trio of narratives to others should they wish to share. Imzy Job Descripto Lino.it I am broadcasting seed on the internet’s pastures and…..maybe these aren’t … Continue reading "Three Networked Narratives"
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Frank Wilczek’s Beautiful Design
Laura Gibbs on I was going to write about Indra's Net today, but something else has intervened... I finished Frank Wilczek's Beautiful Design, and I just had to write something about it here. I had mentioned the book in my first post, and it just kept getting better and better... so now that the book has come to an end today, I'm tempted to read it over again from the start, which is the highest compliment I can pay to any book.And its […]
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Networked Narratololgy Using Lino
tellio on Here is THE narrative in the zeitgeist right now: fake news. We now live in the perfect oxymoron. News has become just another object to be manipulated for the sole and abiding purpose of gaining and gaming our attention. In essence, hackers (?–what do we call them, liars/propagandists/trolls) invent fakeries and get the crowd to dispose … Continue reading "Networked Narratololgy Using Lino"
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The start of a new adventure?
The start of a new adventure?
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The Net … and the Alkahest
Laura Gibbs on From yesterday's post about Diana's Tree, I learned about The Net, another alchemical notion that resonates with classical mythology. The Wikipedia article focuses on Newton's recipe for the Net, which is an alloy of copper (Venus) and iron (Mars), as "caught" by Vulcan, the fiery god of metallurgy, using a net.That article leads me in two directions, one alchemical... and one Indian (Indra's Net!). I'll save the Indian one for tomorrow, and follow the alchemical trail today which leads to […]
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Diana’s Tree
Laura Gibbs on I think I am going to do this blog like a big version of the "Wikipedia Trail" posts that my students do, following one item to the next to the next, just to see where it goes. In yesterday's post about Newton and Alchemy, I was intrigued by the mention of Diana's Tree, so that is where I will start today.Diana's Tree, Arbor Dianae, was also known as the Philosophers' Tree, Arbor Philosophorum. It is a "a dendritic amalgam of […]
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Newton and Alchemy
Laura Gibbs on I'm reading a marvelous book right now by Frank Wilczek, A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design, and it contained a lovely passage on Newton and alchemy, which seems like something good to learn about today as part of my #netnarr vow to learn something alchemical every day. I thought it was such a good sign that this book led me straight to asking good starting questions.Wikipedia gives me a lot to work with: Isaac Newton's occult studies. The article cites Keynes's […]
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Start
Laura Gibbs on Auspicious alchemy: starting a new blog.
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When You Stay in Neutral You Never Go Anywhere
You get inside your car, turn the ignition switch, hopefully put on the safety belt, maybe turn on the radio or some kind of music player. The engine warms up. When you want to do, which gear to you put it in? A tad obvious, right? Within a few pages of Chapter 3 (“Ideas”) We Make the Road By Walking, I am highlighting the sections I bet almost everyone reading now is doing (the person who owned the book before […]