How to Be a Generous Professor in Precarious Times

MIT releases their Open Access White Paper.

Dana Johnson designed this brilliant cover art for my book. I absolutely love the subtlety. Unfortunately, the publisher had to go in another direction, but I still hope this will find its way out there.

In order to create a pop band, the whole apparatus of civilization must be up and running and tapping its toe to the beat. Electricity, poetry, mathematics, sound amplification, textiles, arena architecture, efficient mimetic exchange, dramaturgy, industry, marketing, the bureaucratic classes, cultural critics, audiovisual transmission, special effects, music theory, symbology, metaphor, transportation, banking, enough leisure and excess calories to do anything beyond hunt, all of it, everything.

In Catherynne M. Valente’s Space Opera, the author makes an enticing argument for the pop band as the demarcation of an advanced sentient civilization.

NPR Tiny Desk Concert of incredible young classical musicians at From the Top