Saurav Bhattacharyya, Kolkata, India.

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present.

We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.

A.W.

Calicry + Bonobo + Clammyclams + PAN-AL.

Oh sorry, I was taking life seriously.

B.H.

Everybody knows Myst. It’s the one with the island and the puzzles. But the story neither starts nor ends there.
We trace nearly 30 years of developer Cyan’s history from its humble beginnings into a garage and through the rise and fall of one of gaming’s greatest success stories.

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Paul Chadeisson, Nantes, France.

It looks like the age of the mass is behind us and the age of the individual is upon us. The chasm that now exists between new people and old organizations is destroying economic value and inhibiting the emergence of a new chapter of capitalism aligned with the needs of this new society.
The new purpose of commerce is to provide the tools, platforms, and relationships, digital or human, that enable individuals to live the lives they choose.

S.Z.

The Inner Chronicle of What We Are – Understanding Werner Herzog.

Like Stories of Old: In this extensive review of the work of Werner Herzog, I examine the philosophy beneath his unique approach to filmmaking, and explore the significance of the many stories he brought home from faraway lands.

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Bruno Pisani, Gemona del Friuli, Italy.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

A.W.