Date: May 29, 2013
"But by weaving a tale as sprawling and complex as it does, 'Arrested' also can't help but rewire viewers' minds so that reality, barbecues and all, seems slightly grander."
preview | full record— Kornhaber, Spencer
Date: June 19, 2013
"Where they (it was held) re-made the world visually and emotionally in the smithies of their tortured souls (to paraphrase James Joyce), Warhol blithely swiped subject matter from mass media."
preview | full record— Sartwell, Crispin (b. 1958)
Date: July 1, 2013
"Many lines of poetry are so long-embedded in my memory that I find them appearing when I speak or write. Sometimes I am quoting. Sometimes I am unconsciously drawing from the reservoir."
preview | full record— Ebert, Roger (1942-2013)
Date: July 12, 2013
"The disheartening fact is that for every college professor who made Shakespeare or Lawrence come alive for the lucky few—the British scholar Frank Kermode kindled Shakespeare into an eternal flame in my head—there were countless others who made the reading of literary masterpieces seem like two ...
preview | full record— Siegel, Lee (b. 1957)
Date: February 15, 2013
"We become a nation of survivalists, alone in the bunkers of our mind, with nothing but empty static on the radio."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)
Date: July 5, 2014
"And so, while in the past, we turned to Freud's mystic writing pad to think of memory as a palimpsest, burying material under layers of inscription, now we see a memory as a live wire sitting in the psyche waiting for a spark."
preview | full record— Halberstam, Jack [Judith] (b. 1961)
Date: March 7, 2014
A traffic jam "is more than the sum of all its cars. Something similar goes for the self."
preview | full record— Mooney, Chris
Date: March 7, 2014
"For Kaku, the brain is a computer made of meat, and understanding the mind is just a really, really hard engineering problem."
preview | full record— Frank, Adam (b. 1962)
Date: March 7, 2014
"Minds made of meat (ours) are just one of Kaku’s concerns."
preview | full record— Frank, Adam (b. 1962)
Date: March 7, 2014
"If we treat minds like meat-computers, we may end up in a world where that’s the only aspect of their nature we perceive or value."
preview | full record— Frank, Adam (b. 1962)