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...and furthermore: IQ
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160; the occasional Simon Bradley. Posted by Simon at 12:06. It is not often I think about IQ, but a recent programme checked out racial differences in measured IQ, and, in the light of current BNP activity, I gave it some attention. Before watching the programme, I came up with a rough definition of what I thought IQ tests measure:. If anything, IQ tests measure the depth of cultural complexity and its influence on genetic potential. You choose. You got 15 seconds. come on! Applicants ...
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...and furthermore: January 2008
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160; the occasional Simon Bradley. Posted by Simon at 06:20. Patron saint of lost causes. Links to this post. Posted by Simon at 02:15. Been thinking, listening and doing a lot with voices of late. Coincidentally, the Sonic Arts CD. This quarter is called Blood, Muscle - the intimate voice. Have had one listen. I find it comforting, but it is not shaking me. Also working my way through Plastic Fuzz's Dots. Being a 100 song bumperthon! For it is worthy and reasonably priced. It proved ne...
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...and furthermore: August 2009
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160; the occasional Simon Bradley. Symbol and Metaphor in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist. Posted by Simon at 22:23. Part One: The Title. Further abstract discussion of this would lead us into convoluted digressions of semiotics, denotations, connotations, signifieds and the like, losing focus on the central contention that the relationship between symbol and metaphor is simply problematic. I think we can agree that metaphor is the deeper and more complex of the two though.
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...and furthermore: May 2008
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160; the occasional Simon Bradley. Posted by Simon at 02:41. I have just listened to Portishead P3. For the first time. The playing appliance is good. It has deeply resonant speakers with good top and uncardboardy middle. The CD was on at 37% volume, which is pretty loud in a small soundproof box. I listened through. The track I'd heard before, Machine Gun. Back to listening to the CD. The machine gun track stuck its neck above the shoulders of the previous, impressive nonetheless, piec...
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...and furthermore: April 2009
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160; the occasional Simon Bradley. Top of the World. Posted by Simon at 00:40. All of history in that top. A crucified bag flaps up the context. I am returning to locate something I passed. It feels as though I have gone too far, but it must be here somewhere. I spot the spot. It echoes the orange of that gregarious bag. It is there. Looking up like the Sun never does. Simply a top. But what does it reveal of its place and people? Across the mud sundial. 176;46'57.75N 1. Top of the World.
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...and furthermore: November 2008
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160; the occasional Simon Bradley. Simplicity is always the best complex. Posted by Simon at 17:29. Had a marvellous trip down to London recently taking in all sorts of sights and sounds, bounteous numbers of which were distinctly American in flavour. Indeed, in flavor and in sonor. No, less. SAVOURnSONOR. But so much of England lies undeniably neath fatal shadow of Muswell Hill. The main purpose of the visitation was to play a concert with Stephen Flinn. Venue for the evening. A) the f...
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...and furthermore: April 2008
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160; the occasional Simon Bradley. Five Authors not in search of a Critic. Posted by Simon at 20:18. The illustrious and industrious Michael Lewin. Has alighted upon 5 debut novelists, including myself, with the hope of developing a creative insight into the forms and raison d’être. Of the contemporary novel. In particular, he will be focusing on our individual motivations, justifications and aspirations for the works. Does the e-slaught of modern media render the novel vagrant? But it'...
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...and furthermore: January 2009
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160; the occasional Simon Bradley. Posted by Simon at 02:23. I have decided that this year's blog will be devoted mainly to angels. I would welcome any ideas, sources or hints about these entities. Here are some of the ones I captured around November 2008. They are pixelly because of the incredible magnification that has had to take place. A couple of things people have said about angels that I like:. You'll meet more angels on a winding path than on a straight one. Daisey Verlaef.
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...and furthermore: March 2009
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160; the occasional Simon Bradley. The Scrollbars of Empire. Posted by Simon at 03:56. So huge, so bulbous! Man and God, me and my Mum. Inside us is another ontologically emergent necessity: to be observed. This is revealed to us by the blush. We show our inner disjuncture with outer circumstance. We are caught out. Our nub of being laid bare. Caught out concealing or lying? Together, we are the compound eye. In homage to Flatland, we offer up our two dimensions to the implicit. Third T...
