“A Peoples Picture is a project that seeks to give average people a chance to be creative anonymously, to shine is secret. I leave disposable cameras around with a note asking the finder to take a picture then return the camera.”
“What’s next for you?
I’m working on a book with a French colleague, Emmanuel Sander, which is about how I see analogy as being the core of all of human thought.”
— An interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter » American Scientist
1. Literature is language-based and national; contemporary society is globalizing and polyglot.
2. Vernacular means of everyday communication — cellphones, social networks, streaming video — are moving into areas where printed text cannot follow.
3. Intellectual property systems failing.
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Cotard or Cotard’s Syndroma aka The Living Dead
Out of all strange and bizarre mental conditions, I certainly wouldn’t want to suffer from this creepy one: Cotard’s Syndrome makes a sufferer believe that he or she is dead, non-existent, is putrefying or has lost his/her blood or internal organs. Rarely, it can include delusions of immortality. First described by neurologist Jules Cotard in 1880, it wasn’t until April 2007 when it finally received scientific legitimacy.
