Re: [microsound] blinded by science

[cramakrishnan@xxxxxxx]

Mark Khemma writes:
> 
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, anechoic wrote:
> >
> > a good book on the similarity of scientsists and artists is "Two Cultures"
> > by CP Snow
> >
> 
> follow that up with "The Third Culture" edited by John Brockman. It's a
> wonderful
> book where scientists/theorist provide there own theories and backup/slash
> others. 

I also recommend this Thomas Pynchon article from 1984:

  http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_luddite.html

It begins:

  As if being 1984 weren't enough, it's also the 25th anniversary this
  year of C. P. Snow's famous Rede lecture, "The Two Cultures and the
  Scientific Revolution," notable for its warning that intellectual life
  in the West was becoming polarized into "literary" and "scientific"
  factions, each doomed not to understand or appreciate the other. The
  lecture was originally meant to address such matters as curriculum
  reform in the age of Sputnik and the role of technology in the
  development of what would soon be known as the third world. But it was
  the two-culture formulation that got people's attention. In fact it
  kicked up an amazing row in its day. To some already simplified
  points, further reductions were made, provoking certain remarks,
  name-calling, even intemperate rejoinders, giving the whole affair,
  though attenuated by the mists of time, a distinctly cranky look.

- sekhar

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C. Ramakrishnan        cramakrishnan@xxxxxxx