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...Guide,” comes across more confused than absurd. Codrescu offers the reader “Dada” as mankind’s salvation but never actually hands it over in either a practiced or studied form. According to Codrescu, we need to be rattled from our current “posthumanity”—a state of being ruled too much by reason and not enough by human vigor. We are posthumans because we live through technology, because we create virtual avatars, because “the city, the house, the car, the iPhone...
...mutant protein, and potentially relief from the disease. Common symptoms of Huntington’s—an inherited disease affecting about 30,000 people in the United States for which there is no known cure—include uncontrolled movements, loss of intellectual faculties, and emotional disturbance. Current compounds used to increase acetylation lack the specificity that would be necessary to create a safe and efficient medication, Krainc said. “What we need to do is to find a version of these inhibitors that are more specific for Huntington’s,” he said...
...College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds released to the public last Tuesday, the SCR is an “outdated” and disconnected component of House life.Topping the list of 19 proposed recommendations in the report is resolving why the SCR “is not working well for current students and faculty.”Undergraduates, resident tutors, House Masters, and SCR members themselves echoed similar sentiments, expressing the need to make the SCR more relevant to undergraduates. Currently, many students know little more than the physical space of the room—and often not even that...
...that painting isn’t, per se, but it’s difficult in general to illuminate and speak intelligently about culture as it is happening. Technology allows artists to really do that forward thinking.”With information saturation becoming the distinguishing trait of our current era, artists are not the only ones who recognize the need to keep pace with an evolving environment. As technology has innovated the world, the world—especially the sector which houses, supports, and encourages artistic creation—struggles with the question of how to innovate...
...head down, working most all of life and every now and then you raise your head up and people go, ‘We love what you do, will you come do that over here?’ [I’d] love to.” Regarding the current music scene, Williamson says, “I’m not listening much to anybody right now. I’m writing a lot… I need to hear what’s going on in my own head.” Even so, she can?...