Category Archives: example

Electric Mist Similitude

Posted on 2015/09/20 by pk

/ Movies / 2014 09 17 So many movies are filled with the vilest things, so how come we often love them so much? I just watched In the Electric Mist, with Tommy Lee Jones: hooray, I love it, love … Continue reading →

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Lake Poet Pandaemonium

Posted on 2015/09/20 by pk

/ Movies / 2014 09 20 This flick imagines Wordsworth, brother and sister, and Coleridge, with wife and child, living and working together to produce the Lyrical Ballads. I knew this material, or at least I used to: love much … Continue reading →

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Great Joke

Posted on 2012/01/28 by pk

Here is today’s joke: a joke so great it is also my today’s candidate for greatest joke of all! Pilat thinks he‘s judging Jesus! Well, he is: in his local political cosmology. If local is all there is, he’s fine: … Continue reading →

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Ambiguity of Memory

Posted on 2011/12/28 by pk

When I was a kid the family told a story about my Uncle Charlie, when asked if he could play the violin, replying, “I don’t know, I’ve never tried.” I understood that it was supposed to be funny: a funny … Continue reading →

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Institutional Perspective

Posted on 2011/10/08 by pk

Knatz.com / Teaching / Thinking Tools / Information / Macroinformation / Examples / Social Macroinformation / The priest speaks from a pulpit: elevated above the congregation. The judge presides from a bench: elevated above the citizens. The Romans would have … Continue reading →

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Le Boucher: Compositional Information

Posted on 2011/09/24 by pk

Information Theory / pk’s Macroinformation / Example / Medium / Mixed Media / Movies / (Macroinformation.org spun off from Knatz.com, all pk domains got censored: now reconstructing at pKnatz blog) Macroinformation in Composition: Chabrol’s Le Boucher: topographical, geometrical, architectural … … Continue reading →

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Jabberwocky

Posted on 2011/08/07 by pk

Context: There’s a report today that the family of a crime victim pronounced that a related incident in a comedy “wasn’t funny.” (pizza bomber) All humor is macroinformation, complex information, requiring interpretation. There can be no pronouncements, no authority, on … Continue reading →

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Agora, text, temporary

Posted on 2000/01/01 by pk

I put a series of posts on Agora here last September to update a series I’d posted in August. Now, January 2012, I gather the Sept bunch into this one text only (ie, no important Agora graphics) file. Here I’ll … Continue reading →

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