{"id":1062,"date":"2008-09-07T18:02:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T01:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2008-09-07T18:14:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T01:14:31","slug":"sometimes-i-see-spots-and-theyre-granular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2008\/09\/07\/sometimes-i-see-spots-and-theyre-granular\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes I see spots, and they&#8217;re granular&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a weird sensation: take a basic idea &#8212; but it has to be something big, like &#8230;oh, <em><strong>beauty<\/strong><\/em> &#8212; and then read around in various and different-from-one-another fields, and let the basic idea act like a filter, &#8230;or is it like a connector?\u00a0 Whichever, but you begin to notice basic transferability or kinship between systems.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a heck of a weird feeling, and I wish I could capture it a bit better.\u00a0 Thinking, and then thinking about thinking&#8230;\u00a0 And then thinking about things.\u00a0 So much to think about.\u00a0 I guess that&#8217;s what granular can also mean: the occasional move away from <strong><em>fuzzy<\/em><\/strong> to something quite a bit more salient?<\/p>\n<p>I had a minor moment or two like that after watching Umair Haque&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/discussionleader.hbsp.com\/haque\/2008\/08\/video_response_a_manifesto_for.html\">Video Response: A Manifesto for the Next Industrial Revolution<\/a> and left a comment in response.<\/p>\n<p>Referencing it here is a mnemonic for me.\u00a0 I wish I could do that as easily with the other moments, which happen while I&#8217;m out and about, observing something <em>out there<\/em>, without a free hand to scribble (or type) it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a weird sensation: take a basic idea &#8212; but it has to be something big, like &#8230;oh, beauty &#8212; and then read around in various and different-from-one-another fields, and let the basic idea act like a filter, &#8230;or is it like a connector?\u00a0 Whichever, but you begin to notice basic transferability or kinship between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[358],"tags":[2954,64761,2955],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comments","tag-cognition","tag-ideas","tag-pattern-recognition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}