Balthus Bemused By Color

Archive for May 2009

Beyond the Two Cultures?

Posted by: balthusbemusedbycolor on: May 21, 2009

Julio Cortazar’s Stories

Posted by: balthusbemusedbycolor on: May 10, 2009

In this book are collected some of the most well-known short stories of the great Latin American writer, Julio Cortazar. Cortazar was a great experimental writer (his most famous novel, “Hopscotch”, was a pre-cursor to future hyper-text novels) who drew his inspiration from French Symbolism, Surrealism and the improvisational nature of Free Jazz. Fellow Argentine, [...]

Fluidity

Posted by: balthusbemusedbycolor on: May 10, 2009

Short video I made to the music of Harold Budd:

Synchronization and Cognition

Posted by: balthusbemusedbycolor on: May 2, 2009

How does a unified cognitive moment emerge from the brain’s massively parallel operations? This is one of the most vexing questions in cognitive neuroscience. Take the example of the so-called perceptual binding problem. Your perception of an object (say a red apple) is a unitary phenomenon, yet the object is multi-dimensional and its various facets [...]



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