The feature image – used on the Resources page – doesn’t begin to capture the size of the library Borges imagined in his short story The Library of Babel, a library with unimaginable mathematics. What would the card catalog system for such a physical library be like? The Central Social Institute of Prague (1937) offersContinue reading “Library of Borges”
Tag Archives: Umberto Eco
Memory Palace
In the BBC Sherlock, series, both Holmes and his adversary Charles Augustus Magnussen demonstrate a disciplined version of the method of loci, the so-called “Memory Palace.” Sherlock stores libraries of information in imagined corridors and retrieves them at will, solving cases and saving himself from peril by walking the halls of his own mind. IContinue reading “Memory Palace”
Saurians
The Great Awakening Map is a must download for surviving the crisis! Political unrest, global warming, the Covid-pandemic, and the cashless society are all explained. And I know who ultimately is behind it. The insidious perpetrators, who have already deeply infiltrated the highest reaches of political power are Saurians. They are purposefully changing the veryContinue reading “Saurians”
Protective Arts 