I like ideas.
Favourites
(extremely tentative, recency‐biased, probably very outdated)
Essays
- The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete
- Ada Palmer on Machiavelli
- A Non-Western Canon: What Would a List of Humanity’s 100 Greatest Writers Look Like?
- Sontag, One culture and the new sensibility
- How An Algorithm Feels From Inside
See also Bret Victor’s talks, Scott Alexander’s corpus.
Music
- Bach’s Clavier‐Übung
- Mozart’s operas with Da Ponte
- Beethoven’s symphonies 3, 5–9
- Beethoven’s late string quartets
- Schubert, Der Erkönig
- Tchaikovsky’s fifth symphony
- Newsom, Have One on Me
Poems
- Paradise lost
- On Anothers Sorrow
- It is not to be thought of that the Flood
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- the Jules/Phene episode in Pippa Passes
- Les Fleurs du mal, Au lecteur
- Sonette an Orpheus, 1:3
Staircase
the one in Guildford House Gallery