Joshua

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Joshua.


Memory and Litera...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The Formal Method...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Thaïs
Joshua is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Loading...
Zbigniew Brzeziński
“We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans”
Zbigniew Brzezinski

“The only thing greater than the power of the mind is the courage of the heart”
John nash

Gérard de Nerval
“I have never felt any rest in sleep. For a few seconds I am numbed, then a new life begins, freed from the conditions of time and space, and doubtless similar to that state which awaits us after death. Who knows if there is not some link between those two existences and if it is not possible for the soul to unite them now?”
Gerard De Nerval

Jacques Attali
“A network can be destroyed by noises that attack and transform it, if the codes in place are unable to normalize and repress them. Although the new order is not contained in the structure of the old, it is nonetheless not a product of chance. It is created by the substitution of new differences for the old differences. Noise is the source of these mutations in the structuring codes. For despite the death it contains, noise carries order within itself; it carries new information. This may seem strange. But noise does in fact create a meaning: first, because the interruption of a message signifies the interdiction of the transmitted meaning, signifies censorship and rarity; and second, because the very absence of meaning in pure noise or in the meaningless repetition of a message, by unchanneling auditory sensations, frees the listener’s imagination. The absence of meaning is in this case the presence of all meanings, absolute ambiguity, a construction outside meaning. The presence of noise makes sense, makes meaning. It makes possible the creation of a new order on another level of organization, of a new code in another network.”
Jacques Attali, Noise: The Political Economy of Music
tags: noise

Nikolai Gogol
“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
Nikolai V. Gogol

year in books
MJ Nich...
3,028 books | 2,324 friends

Jennifer
2,838 books | 32 friends

Amy Bodine
753 books | 124 friends

Em J
950 books | 154 friends

Lee Whi...
820 books | 119 friends

Dana Mu...
359 books | 323 friends

Emily L...
424 books | 248 friends

Brad Cox
9 books | 366 friends

More friends…


Polls voted on by Joshua

Lists liked by Joshua