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diff --git a/tex/context/sample/common/greenfield.tex b/tex/context/sample/common/greenfield.tex new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3f832f98a --- /dev/null +++ b/tex/context/sample/common/greenfield.tex @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +But if you place a human brain, with its evolutionary mandate to adapt to its +environment, in an environment where there is no obvious linear sequence, where +facts can be accessed at random, where everything is reversible, where the gap +between stimulus and response is minimal, and above all where time is short, then +your train of thought could be derailed. Add in the sensory distractions of an +all|-|encompassing and vivid audio|-|visual universe encouraging shorter spans +for sustained attention, and you might become, as it were, a computer yourself: a +system responding efficiently and processing information very well, but devoid of +deeper thought. diff --git a/tex/context/sample/common/jojomayer.tex b/tex/context/sample/common/jojomayer.tex new file mode 100644 index 000000000..966b356a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/tex/context/sample/common/jojomayer.tex @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +If we surrender the thing that separates us from machines, we will be replaced by +machines. The more advanced machines will be, the more human we will have to +become. diff --git a/tex/context/sample/common/klein.tex b/tex/context/sample/common/klein.tex new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7b145abd4 --- /dev/null +++ b/tex/context/sample/common/klein.tex @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +We don't go into a state of shock when something big and bad happens; it has to +be something big and bad {\em that we do not yet understand}. A state of shock is +what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to +explain them. When we find ourselves in that position, without a story, without +our moorings, a great many people become vulnerable to authority figures telling +us to fear one another and relinguish our rights for the greater good. diff --git a/tex/context/sample/common/mcnish.tex b/tex/context/sample/common/mcnish.tex new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ab09ca0bc --- /dev/null +++ b/tex/context/sample/common/mcnish.tex @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +% poetry, music and typesetting +% +% https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB8_2Yuj8Og +% +% Published on Nov 1, 2016 +% Taken from 'Poetry versus Orchestra'. Album by Hollie McNish and Metropole Orkest, conducted by Jules Buckley. +% Released on MO Black, fall 2016. +% www.mo.nl/poetry • www.holliepoetry.com +% +% Poem written by Hollie McNish, music by Jules Buckley +% Artwork by me studio, Martin Pyper +% +MATHEMATICS + +he said +“those goddamn pakistanis and their goddamn corner shops +built a shop on every corner, took our british workers jobs” +he said +“those goddamn chinese and their goddamn china shops” +i told him they’re from vietnam, but he didn’t give a toss +i ask him what was there before that “damn japan man’s shop?” +he looks at me and dreams a scene of british workers’ jobs +of full-time, full-employment before the “goddamn boats all came” +where everybody went to work for full-time full-hours every day +“a british business stood their first” +he claims +“before the irish came +now british people lost their jobs and bloody turkish they're to blame” +i ask him how he knows that fact, he says, “because it’s true” +i ask him how he knows it’s fact, he says, he read it in the news, +“every time a somali comes here they take a job from us +the mathematics one for one, from us to them, it just adds up.” +he bites his cake, he sips his brew, he says again he knows the plot +“the goddamn caribbean’s came and now good folk here don’t have jobs” +i ask him what was there before the “goddamn persian curtain shop” +i show him architectures’ plans +of empty goddamn plots of land +I show him the historic maps +a bit of sand +a barren land +there was no goddamn shop before that pakistani came and planned +man - i am sick of crappy mathematics +cos i love a bit of sums +i spent years into economics +and i geek out over calculus +and when i meet these paper claims +that one of every new that came +takes away ‘our’ daily wage +i desperately want to scream +“your math is stuck-in primary” +cos some who come here also spend +and some who come here also lend +and some who come here also tend +to set up work which employs them +and all thosebalance sheets and trends +they work with numbers, not with men +and all this goddamn heated talk +ignores the trade the polish brought +ignores the men they give work to +not plumbing jobs but further too +ignores the guys they buy stock from +accountants, builders, on and on +and i know it’s nice to have someone +to blame our lack of jobs upon +but immigration’s not that plain +despite the sums inside our brains +as one for one +as him for you +as if he goes ‘home’, they’d employ you +cos sometimes one that comes makes two +and sometimes one can add three more +and sometimes two times two is much, much more than four +and most times immigrants bring more than minuses. diff --git a/tex/context/sample/common/samples.tex b/tex/context/sample/common/samples.tex index 8d1477e1c..a2ffcf088 100644 --- a/tex/context/sample/common/samples.tex +++ b/tex/context/sample/common/samples.tex @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ used in testing bibliographic references and citations. \NC reich.tex \NC Steve Reich \NC City Life (1995) \NC \NR \NC materie.tex \NC Louis Andriessen \NC De Materie \NC \NR \NC douglas.tex \NC Douglas R. Hofstadter \NC \NC \NR -\NC dawkins.tex \NC Dawkins \NC \NC \NR +\NC dawkins.tex \NC Richard Dawkins \NC \NC \NR \NC ward.tex \NC Peter D. Ward \NC The Life and Death of Planet Earth \NC \NR \NC zapf.tex \NC Hermann Zapf \NC About micro-typography and the hz-program, Electronic Publishing, vol. 6(3), @@ -48,8 +48,16 @@ used in testing bibliographic references and citations. \NC waltham.tex \NC David Waltham \NC Lucky Planet, why earth is exceptional and what that means for life in the universe, Icon Books Ltd, London, 2014, p. 168 \NC \NR -\NC sapolsky.tex \NC Robert M. Sapolsky \NC Why Zebras Don't Have Ulsters, means for life in the universe, +\NC sapolsky.tex \NC Robert M. Sapolsky \NC Why Zebras Don't Have Ulsters, St Martin's Press, 2004 \NC \NR +\NC mcnish.tex \NC Hollie McNish \NC Poetry versus Orchestra, Hollie McNish and Metropole + Orkest, conducted by Jules Buckley, + MO Black, fall 2016. \NC \NR +\NC klein.tex \NC Naomi Klein \NC No is not enough, defeating the new shock politics, + Allen Lane, 2017. \NC \NR +\NC greenfield.tex \NC Susan Greenfield \NC Mind Change, how digital technologies are leaving + their mark on the brain, + Rider, London, 2014. \NC \NR \stoptabulate % Tufte: This quote will always produce hyphenated text, apart from the content, |