Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently: as essential to being human and to human progress, individual and collective.
I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put us through a lot of… - Brian Boyd
I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put us through a lot of…
- Brian Boyd
Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident. - Brian Boyd
Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident.
Perhaps the most demanding trick in all of art is to know ways that are going to capture the attention of an audience right now, and yet to also hold… - Brian Boyd
Perhaps the most demanding trick in all of art is to know ways that are going to capture the attention of an audience right now, and yet to also hold…
Scientists, to give them credit, do not think of the humanities in a negative way. It's the bureaucrats who want to cut costs who think, Well, here's… - Brian Boyd
Scientists, to give them credit, do not think of the humanities in a negative way. It's the bureaucrats who want to cut costs who think, Well, here's…
There is behavioral ecology, which looks closely at the difference different ecologies make to behavior and other features of animals and humans. The… - Brian Boyd
There is behavioral ecology, which looks closely at the difference different ecologies make to behavior and other features of animals and humans. The…
There's a young Danish guy who has done a lot of work from an evolutionary perspective, Mathias Clasen. Basically, his argument is we've evolved to f… - Brian Boyd
There's a young Danish guy who has done a lot of work from an evolutionary perspective, Mathias Clasen. Basically, his argument is we've evolved to f…
Any artist who really engages with the problems in their medium at that moment and tries to deepen the problems is likely to discover new problems, n… - Brian Boyd
Any artist who really engages with the problems in their medium at that moment and tries to deepen the problems is likely to discover new problems, n…
In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right. - Brian Boyd
In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.
I guess both Nabokov and Popper had, in different ways, immunized me against the fashion for French-influenced literary theory in the '70s, '80s, and… - Brian Boyd
I guess both Nabokov and Popper had, in different ways, immunized me against the fashion for French-influenced literary theory in the '70s, '80s, and…
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