The Bricklayers and the PhD

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This is where it all happens.https://practice-research.com/

I am trying this. Putting out episodes without the info and background about the episode. Let me see how this goes down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk_(Isaacson_book)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasa_(aesthetics)

Notes for this episode. I will make a webpage for this episode and periodically update the webpage with information about designers I find.60 million: Jony Ive, 2011, 30 million + 30 million per year, Find me 5 others who earn this much today30 Million: Franz von Halzhausen (Tesla Lead Designer, 51 million home), Maximillian Missoni (BMW Lead Designer), Luc Donckerwolke (Hyundai), Find me 100 others at this slab10 million: Ivy Ross, (Google Design VP), Find me 1000 others at this slab1 Million: Tbc, Find me 5000 people at this slab500,000: Product Designer at Tesla, Find me 10,000 people at this slab200,000: Tbc, Find me ... dont. This is ubiquitous100,000: Tbc, Find me? Dont. Document instead for me places that have been de-industrialised. Go European city by European city? Something like that.

Elon Musk by Walter IsaacsonApple in China by Patrick McGeeThe Singularity is Nearer by Ray KurzweilInvention by James DysonThe Big Con by Marian Mazzuccato

There are two texts on Derrida, on Artaud.https://kdoutsiderart.com/tag/antonin-artaud/ - For Artaud the works are intended as weapons, not commodities, but they become commodified in any event. How then to restore, to protect, their existence as “gestures, a verb, a grammar, an arithmetic, a whole Kabbalah…that shits on the other,” to maintain their endurance as “a machine that has breath”? How to preserve the destructive essence (and we should be clear Artaud’s intent was destructive, not merely critical) of Artaud’s project against “the museographic management of its surplus value.” As Derrida puts it: “Will it be possible to do what I am trying to do, to say ‘Merde?’ Will it be possible, either with or without blasphemy, to read and to cite ‘Shit,’ ‘Shit to art,’ to do it then as it must be done, in this great temple that is a great art museum and above all modern, thus in a museum that has the sense of history, the very great museum of one of the greatest metropolises in the new world?”‘The Theatre of Cruelty and the Closure of Representation’: https://arts3047.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/the-theatre-of-cruelty-and-the-closure-of-representation/ - Whilst Derrida seems to be on the brink of declaring Artaud as a success story that can defy the unravelling of deconstructive theory, he ultimately finds an end to theatre of cruelty using dialectics. The very thing that would seem to make theatre succeed in a mission that texts fail is the thing that undoes theatre as an art form: its existence as transient, finite.