Tag: Richard Fisher

• Is memory the warder of the brain?

  I have to be honest, I do not understand the younger generation -well, anymore than it understands me, I suppose. But I recognize that, unlike them, I am not working from a clean slate, and although I have usually tried to think for myself, I am still affected by things past -in fact, I imagine…

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  October 19, 2022

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  BBC Future, blind spots, Daniel Pauly, generational amnesia, history, memory, paradigm shifts, Peter Kahn, Richard Fisher, Shifting baseline syndrome, Thea Weiss, Thomas Kuhn, trees, University of Washington, windscreen phenomenon, youth

• We have seen better days

  Things seem to change so quickly nowadays, don’t they? Of course we often grow impatient if they don’t; we expect a channel to change as soon as we press the button, the Google result to appear immediately; waiting for the red light to turn green at an intersection seems to take far too long. We…

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  May 4, 2022

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  Aesop’s Fables, BBC Future, Cassandra, change, effects, Johan Galtung, multimodality, poisons, Princeton University, Richard Fisher, Rob Nixon, slow violence, structural violence, Violence