"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
System
Sunday, August 27, 2023
Shadow Work* for Alcoholics
Sunday, July 16, 2023
D-Day Science Death
A New York Times obituary yesterday reported the
June 6 death, at 91, of a Harvard professor who dealt with
the relations between science and society —
“ 'Everett was one of a new generation of social historians
of science who insisted that it was not enough to pay attention
to the internal intellectual story of science,' Anne Harrington,
the Franklin L. Ford professor of the history of science at Harvard,
said by email. 'The field needed to attend also to how science was
shaped by and also helped shape the conditions of the social world.' ”
Consider as well Scarlett Johansson on Alan Watts in "Her" (2013)
and Harrington on intellectual history in Cuernavaca . . .
By 1956, Fromm was dining at Suzuki’s part-time home in New York City, and talking with him about ways in which Zen could contribute to a wholesale reimagining of psychoanalytic therapeutics and theory (see Friedman and Schreiber 2013). By this time, also, Fromm was himself spending considerable periods of time at a new home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. At one point he suggested that Suzuki consider moving in with him permanently. When Suzuki politely declined, Fromm conceived instead a major conference based in Mexico that would try to take stock of the entire current state of the conversation between Zen and psychotherapy (see Friedman and Schreiber 2013). In 1957, some fifty psychotherapists—double the original expected number—participated in a week of presentations and discussions. Fromm later recalled the event as a magical time: what began as a traditional conference with the usual ‘over-emphasis on thoughts and words' changed over a few days, as people 'became more concentrated and more quiet.' |
A search in this journal for D-Day related material yields
posts tagged "Shadow Hacking."
"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."
Sunday, May 7, 2023
Logos
For the title, see Logos in this journal.
Some examples —
"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."
Friday, December 9, 2022
S’en allait
From this journal on Dec. 2 —
"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."
Update of 2:30 PM ET:
"You can't make this stuff up."
Friday, December 2, 2022
Richard J. Turyn, 1930-2022
See also Turyn in this journal.
A Log24 post from the above date —
October 24, 2022 — suggests
a related cinematic image:
"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."
Monday, February 21, 2022
Her Story
The above White Goddess new-edition publication date: Oct. 8, 2013.
This journal on that date —
"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
QDOS
For the title, see the Wikipedia article on the late Paul Allen.
See also . . .
Related material — the late Patrick Swayze in Ghost and King Solomon's Mines.
"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."
Monday, September 10, 2018
Your OS
"Alan Watts wrote of The Making of a Counter Culture in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969, 'If you want to know what is happening among your intelligent and mysteriously rebellious children, this is the book. The generation gap, the student uproar, the New Left, the beats and hippies, the psychedelic movement, rock music, the revival of occultism and mysticism, the protest against our involvement in Vietnam, and the seemingly odd reluctance of the young to buy the affluent technological society—all these matters are here discussed, with sympathy and constructive criticism, by a most articulate, wise, and humane historian.' " |
"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
S in a Diamond
For Amy Adams, who in a recent
Superman film posed the question…
"What's the S stand for?"
This logo appears on the new game
Beyond: Two Souls . (See this evening's
earlier post on the game.)
In a more appealing sort of computer
entertainment, the S might stand for Scarlett.
"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."
(From the October 5th post Dream Girls.)
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Dream Girls
Her —
"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."
See also the Oct. 13, 2011, post
"Now, Here's My Plan"
and Bester's The Deceivers —
His excitement drove him into the workshop to get a better view of the end product on the giant prime video of his computer. During those few moments the development had accelerated into its dénouement, for he arrived just in time to have the huge screen explode into his face. Demi Jeroux burst out of the computer in a shower of plastic particles, rolled and sprawled on top of him. She was naked, sweating, trembling. “Golly!” she gasped. “Getting in was easy compared to getting out. Are you hurt, darling?” “I’m fine. I’m great. I’m ennobled. I’m stupefied. Hi, hey. Hi, my love. Hi, my darling sprite. What’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like that?” |