Reading the almanac reminded me of the power of limits. It made me think about the value of not knowing, of ignorance, of lack of information — the dark matter of knowledge. These blank spaces, I realized, are just as important as the positive presence of information itself; they even define, in many ways, what that information can be. (Only 4 percent of our universe, the almanac tells me, is made up of visible matter.)
— Sam Anderson
another event: Presenting Data and Information— Edward Tufte will be in CA early December.
Frances Stark and Trisha Donnelly were two artists in the show I Am Still Alive: Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Drawing at MOMA this summer, although neither of these images were in the exhibition.
“If the image is what makes us imagine, and if the (sensible) imagination is an obstacle to such (intelligible) knowledge, how then can one know an image?”
— Georges Didi-Huberman
this event is sold out, and its in London, but wish i could go to dinner with George Perec at Alain de Botton’s School of Life.
