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4 weeks for dusting the Louvre

Oriane wrote 1 day ago: 4 weeks, this is the time that the largest museum of the world and Arte channel took to make a web e … more →

Tags: Movies, Art, arte, Louvre

The Semantics of Art

tincolor wrote 2 days ago: There is a line from a novel by Umberto Eco that I love to misquote.  In fact I’ve done it so … more →

Tags: Art, Bob Ross, Design, Form And Substance, Mona Lisa, Semantics

The year's best in reading, not in publishing

Jake Seliger wrote 3 days ago: Like D.G. Myers, I don’t find much interest in “year’s best” lists and the l … more →

Tags: Books, Culture, Links, Art, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, high fidelity, Lists, Literature, nick hornby

Morning Catholic must-reads1 comment

Luke Coppen wrote 1 week ago: John Allen reflects on the lessons the Irish Church must learn following the abuse crisis. Benedict … more →

Tags: Morning Catholic must-reads, andrew sullivan, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, BBC One, Dr Samuel Gregg, Holy See, hugh o'shaughnessy, John Allen, Nicholas King SJ Russian Orthodox Church

Sobre listas, por Umberto Eco

runmotherfuckerrun wrote 1 week ago: Umberto Eco foi entrevistado pela Spiegel. Vale a leitura. The list is the origin of culture. It … more →

Tags: Pedro, ian tait., Lista, Spiegel

Zaia watch: Italy's agriculture minister's tenure much ado about nothing?2 comments

Do Bianchi wrote 1 week ago: It’s already been a big week for Italy’s agriculture minister Luca Zaia, left (note the … more →

Tags: de rebus italicis, de vino, de vinographia, Alfonso Cevola, franco ziliani, Lega Nord, Luca Zaia, Northern League

Almanacco del Giorno - 14 Dec. 2009

Nicola di Bowery wrote 2 weeks ago: Dangerous Minds – The Beatles As Seen From the Distant Future Dissapore – Michael Pollan … more →

Tags: Almanacco Reader [Links], the beatles, obama, the millions, Jonathan Franzen, venus febriculosa, helvetica, eBook, piovono rane

Saturday Book Review Round-UP

Taylor Bright wrote 2 weeks ago: After sort of a light round-up last week, we’re back at full-strength this week. J.J. Abrams o … more →

Tags: Books, back matter, Stieg Larsson, Tove Jansson, P D James, Colum McCann, ludmilla petrushevskaya, Orhan Pamuk, frank kermode

Book News and Views: Writers on Writing Edition

Shannon wrote 3 weeks ago: Image via Wikipedia Here are a bunch of writerly links I’ve rounded up from the Interwebs: Cor … more →

Tags: Authors, writing, Cormac Mccarthy, John Scalzi, Kim Stanley Robinson, utopia

Best European Fiction 2010: My Series

the wanderer wrote 3 weeks ago: I believe in conversations. And the conversations I always learn the most from are those I have with … more →

Tags: Best European Literature 2010, aleksandar hemon, Alice Munro, Arnaldur Indridason, Best European Fiction 2010, Best European Fiction series, Chicago writers, Chinua Achebe, Dalkey Archive Press

Why Blogs on 'meaning' in videogames make me angry

dianapoulsen wrote 4 weeks ago: I had the displeasure to stumble upon this article “Opinion: Looking for Meaning in Games … more →

Tags: Visual Arts, Videogames, Thought of the day, World of Warcraft, Fatal Frame, Opinion: Looking for Meaning in Games, Looking for Meaning in Games, chris remo, gamasutra

From the Depths of My Google Reader

questionsandanchors wrote 4 weeks ago: I’m fully aware these links might be entirely for my own benefit, but I still like noting what … more →

Tags: The World at Large, Cormac Mccarthy, Edgar Allan Poe, GReader, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kurt Vonnegut, mamapeke, Marilynne Robinson, redsonika

Umberto Eco

Malcolm wrote 4 weeks ago: Ok. Let’s not start at the beginning, but perhaps at the most interesting, intriguing….U … more →

Tags: Authors, D-F, Titles A-C, Titles D-F, Titles G-I, Titles K-N, Titles R-T, Name of the Rose, Hyper-reality

Umberto Eco's web of lists and The Name of the Rose2 comments

Jake Seliger wrote 1 month ago: In an interview with the German newspaper SPIEGEL, Umberto Eco says that ‘We Like Lists Becaus … more →

Tags: Culture, Links, andrew sullivan, christianism, Christianity, eco, Lists, Reflections on The Name of the Rose, the name of the rose

Cloud over London

urbanartprojects wrote 1 month ago: PROJECT Cloud over London LOCATION London, UK DESIGN TEAM Carlo Ratti, Tomas Saraceno, Alex Haw, Joe … more →

Tags: Benchmark Projects, lighting, Inflatable, Ephemeral, London, Projection, Olympics, Google, cloud

Books speaking of Books

Alexandra Boland wrote 1 month ago: From Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose: Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of b … more →

Tags: Literature, Fiction, Novel, the name of the rose, translated, 1980s

For Umberto Eco

John Ryan Recabar wrote 1 month ago: This feeling I am secretly keeping is somehow similar to that of a school girl’s infatuation for her … more →

Tags: Literary criticism, Formal Short Essay, Personal reflection, Commentaries, Book Review, Reflections, Places and People, writing, language

Errata corrige (a proposito di Eco)17 comments

fabrizio centofanti wrote 1 month ago: da qui Apprendo che c’è un refuso all’origine de Il nome della rosa. Il famoso distico c … more →

Tags: diari, fabrizio centofanti, Bob Dylan, Il Nome della Rosa

Altai

Nicola di Bowery wrote 1 month ago: Hey New Yorkeurs, the collective of writers named Wu Ming “,the awesomely controversial Italia … more →

Tags: Almanacco di città [About Town], Almanacco Autorevole [Authors], Wu Ming, Manituana, altai, Q, postmodern


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