Myth, Culture, Form

Explores how archetypal narratives, mythological structures, and aesthetic forms evolve across cultures, rituals, and artistic traditions—from Bollywood hero journeys to epochal works of Western art.

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2024-08-15 Intellectual Menopause
2024-05-03 Sons of the Soil, Migrants, and Civil War,
2024-05-02 There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
2024-04-12 Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes
2024-04-07 Storytelling — Philosophical Stakes
2024-04-01 History is More Like Science Fiction Than Fantasy
2024-03-14 Protocol Entrepreneurship
2024-03-13 Storytelling — Just Add Dinosaurs
2024-03-08 My Post-AI Writing
2024-03-07 Matter and Life
2024-03-02 Poison-Depilling Problems
2024-02-23 Economics Memes
2024-02-14 Mediocratopia: 13
2024-01-17 Why Monsters Are Dangerous
2024-01-17 Universal Kit Template
2024-01-11 Accretive Growth Logics
2024-01-09 Does AI Have Buddha Nature?
2023-11-02 The Future of the Blogosphere
2023-07-13 Worldly, Yet Carefree
2023-04-20 Storytelling — The Penumbra of Mortality
2023-03-30 Tessellations for the End of History
2023-01-26 Bracketverse -- I
2022-11-03 Storytelling -- End-Times Tales
2022-09-29 Ark Head
2022-09-22 Tangle Logic
2022-08-10 Narrative Slipstream Effects
2022-07-13 Storytelling -- Tellability
2022-06-23 What is a Life?
2022-06-02 Storytelling -- Mediocre Metamodernism
2022-02-23 Divergentism
2022-01-12 Storytelling -- Narrative Wet Bulb Temperature
2021-10-27 MJD 59,514
2021-10-05 Storytelling -- Cringe and the Banality of Shadows
2021-09-30 MJD 59,487
2021-07-01 MJD 59,396
2021-06-24 Storytelling -- Matthew Dicks
2021-06-17 Storytelling -- Mamet's Conflict Airing Theory
2021-06-04 Non-Contact
2021-05-27 Space Luck
2021-05-13 Comet Bob
2021-05-03 Storytelling -- The American Tradition
2021-02-16 Storytelling -- Harmon vs. McKee
2021-01-25 Domestic Cozy: 13
2020-12-29 Notes: Pale Rider by Laura Spinney
2020-10-23 MJD 59,145
2020-10-21 MJD 59,143
2020-10-04 Mansionism 2: Bungalows
2020-09-02 Hyperreality Prevails
2020-08-24 Notes: Astounding by Alec Nevala-Lee
2020-08-19 Convergent Evolution
2020-08-04 Amateur Vigour
2020-07-30 Elderblog Sutra: 11
2020-07-21 To Attack and Dethrone Gods
2020-07-07 The Venus Effect
2020-06-23 Two Spooks
2020-06-09 A Spectre Is Haunting The West
2020-05-26 Through a Glass Lightly
2020-05-12 Whistler's Giantess
2020-04-28 Alamut, Bosch, Gaddis: Introduction to Epochal Art
2020-04-23 Quarantine Art
2020-04-14 Liminality?...Well, there's a free sample!
2020-03-17 Masks All The Way Down
2020-03-09 Plot Economics
2020-02-18 Weirding Diary: 11
2020-02-13 Domestic Cozy: 11
2020-02-10 MJD 58,889
2020-01-24 How To See Voids
2020-01-03 MJD 58,851
2019-12-16 Domestic Cozy: 10
2019-12-13 Disassembling the Empathy Machine
2019-12-10 Making Meaning
2019-12-06 The Ovaltine Moment
2019-12-03 Automontage
2019-11-25 Elderblog Sutra: 10
2019-11-15 The Galactic Numerology Collision
2019-11-08 Spatial Intelligence: Architecture as a Giant Computer
2019-11-04 Domestic Cozy: 9
2019-10-22 Value Investing in Cults and Religions
2019-09-25 Elderblog Sutra: 9
2019-09-16 Mediocratopia: 8
2019-09-04 Worlding Raga 7: Worlds of Worlds
2019-08-15 Meaning as Ambiguity
2019-07-22 Domestic Cozy: 6
2019-07-10 Predictable Identities: 13 - Totalizing Ideologies
2019-07-09 Elderblog Sutra: 7
2019-06-26 Predictable Identities: 12 - Fear, Myths, and the Outgroup, Part II
2019-06-19 Mazes as Mirrors of Creation
2019-06-06 Predictable Identities: 11 - Fear, Myths and the Outgroup, Part I
2019-05-30 The Age of Diffraction
2019-05-20 Domestic Cozy: 5
2019-05-08 Predictable Identities: 9 - How to Change
2019-05-06 Domestic Cozy: 4
2019-04-25 Worlding Raga: 5 -- World How?
2019-04-12 Domestic Cozy: 3
2019-04-02 Worlding Raga: 4 - Who Worlds?
2019-03-21 Constructions in Magical Thinking
2019-03-15 Domestic Cozy: 2
2019-03-14 Worlding Raga: 3 -- Slouching with God
2019-03-12 Refactorings Roundup: 1/28/19 - 3/10/19
2019-03-05 Worlding Raga: 2 - What is a World?
2019-03-04 Domestic Cozy: 1
2019-02-21 Worlding Raga: 1
2019-02-12 Mediocratopia: 2
2019-02-11 Elderblog Sutra: 3
2019-02-05 Elderblog Sutra: 2
2019-01-24 Weirding Diary: 1
2019-01-10 Remembering Pierre Kabamba
2018-12-07 “Something Runs Through The Whole Thread”
2018-11-21 The Age of Early Divinity
2018-11-08 May You Live in Epic Times
2018-11-02 Treasure Hunting
2018-10-25 The Speakeasy Imagineering Network
2018-10-11 Pack Experience
2018-10-05 Light of the American Whale
2018-09-20 Dodo Thoughts
2018-09-16 Refactorings Roundup 09/02/2018 -- 09/15/18
2018-09-13 London Visit Next Week, Three Events
2018-09-07 Social Media Consciousness
2018-08-30 How Do You Value a Human Being?
2018-08-16 Refactor Camp 2018: Cryptoeconomics and Blockchain Weirding Post-Mortem
2018-08-02 Boilerplate
2018-06-14 Chekov's Gun and the Principle of Sufficient Reason
2018-04-24 Survival of the Mediocre Mediocre
2018-04-06 Deep Laziness
2018-03-29 The Key to Act Two
2018-02-08 Justice Fantasies
2018-02-01 (Don't) Be the Gray man
2018-01-11 Cringe and the Design of Sacred Experiences
2018-01-09 Boat Stories
2017-12-14 A Glitch in the Theocratic Matrix
2017-11-28 The Leaning Tower of Morality
2017-11-16 Folk Concepts
2017-10-05 Rectangle Vision
2017-10-02 \"It's Only Cannibalism if We're Equals\"
2017-09-28 The Internet of Electron Microscopes
2017-09-26 Common Sense Eats Common Talk
2017-09-07 The World As If
2017-08-17 The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
2017-08-08 The Crisis of the Lonely Atoms
2017-07-25 I Can’t Be Your Hero, I’m Too Busy Being Super
2017-07-18 From Monkey Neurons to the Meta-Brain
2017-07-11 Memory Transplants and Climate Risks
2017-06-27 Been There, Done That
2017-06-15 How I Hired Your Mother
2017-06-06 Thingness and Thereness
2017-06-01 Why Books Are Fake
2017-05-09 A Priest, a Guru, and a Nerd-King Walk Into a Conference Room...
2017-05-04 Fluid Rigor
2017-04-13 Idiots Scaring Themselves in the Dark
2017-04-11 Zorba, Spock, or Voldemort?
2017-03-23 Bourbon Crossing
2017-03-09 \"Another Green World\"
2017-03-02 The Limits of Epistemic Hygiene
2017-02-09 One Sacred Trick for Moral Regeneration
2017-02-02 After Temporality
2017-01-26 Games, Videogames, and the Dionysian Society
2017-01-19 The Antiheroine Unveiled
2017-01-17 How to Dress for the Game of Life
2017-01-10 Rolling Your Own Culture and (Not) Finding Community
2017-01-05 Tendrils of Mess in our Brains
2016-12-30 Complete 2016 Roundup
2016-12-15 Robert Martinson and the Tragedy of the American Prison
2016-12-01 A Pseudoethnography of Egregores
2016-11-23 When Tools Shape You
2016-11-17 Paradox and the Origins of Civilisation
2016-11-10 King Ruinous and the City of Darkness
2016-11-03 A Bad Carver
2016-11-01 Ribbonfarm Longform Blogging Course: Nov 10 - 22
2016-10-27 The Cyberpunk Sensibility
2016-10-06 The Art of the Conspiracy Theory
2016-09-27 Mapping Organizational Realities
2016-09-22 Speak Weirdness to Truth
2016-09-01 The Origin of Authenticity in the Breakdown of the Illusion of the Real
2016-08-04 The Quality Without a Name at the Betsy Ross Museum
2016-07-13 Welcome to Nixonland
2016-07-07 The Systems of the World
2016-06-23 The Principia Misanthropica
2016-06-02 The Theory of Narrative Selection
2016-05-05 Dares, Costly Signals, and Psychopaths
2016-04-28 Immortality Begins at Forty
2016-04-14 A Good Name Points to You
2016-04-07 Business as Magic
2016-03-31 Human-Complete Problems
2016-03-03 Inequalities
2016-02-25 The Epic Struggle between Good and Neutral
2016-02-11 Minimum Viable Superorganism
2016-02-02 Podcasts with Longform and Farnam Street
2016-01-07 On Some Possibilities for Life as a Joke
2015-12-17 We Are All Architects Now
2015-12-03 An Ecology of Beauty and Strong Drink
2015-12-01 Can You Hear Me Now?
2015-11-23 Artisanal Hand-Crafted Electrons
2015-11-12 The Awe Delusion
2015-11-05 Ritual Epistemology
2015-10-22 Distinctions and Differences
2015-10-13 The Berliners #1
2015-10-06 Alice and Bob Discover Capitalism
2015-10-01 Meaning and Pointing
2015-09-24 Samuel Beckett's Guide to Particles and Antiparticles
2015-09-17 How to be a Precious Snowflake
2015-09-10 Why Nerds Have Bad Taste
2015-08-25 Learning is the Opposite of Healing
2015-08-20 A Children’s Picture-book Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
2015-08-06 Frontierland
2015-07-30 The Chinese Compressibility Parable
2015-07-14 New Horizons
2015-07-09 A Better Art Vocabulary, Part 2
2015-06-18 The Boydian Dialectic
2015-06-04 Puzzle Theory
2015-05-13 Technopaganism and the Newer Age
2015-05-07 Weaponized Sacredness
2015-04-22 A Better Art Vocabulary, Part 1
2015-04-15 The Capitalist's Zombie
2015-04-08 The Essence of Peopling
2015-03-04 Gardens Need Walls: On Boundaries, Ritual, and Beauty
2015-02-24 Colin Dickey: Tempo Shifts
2015-02-11 What Is Ritual?
2015-01-28 The Heroine's Journey
2015-01-21 Let's Play! Narrative Discovery vs. Expert Guides
2015-01-16 On the Design of Escaped Realities
2015-01-08 Ritual and the Consciousness Monoculture
2015-01-01 Black Mirror as Hell-Is-Other-People Futurism
2014-10-21 Playing Games to Leave Games
2014-10-12 I Will Not Rest Until...
2014-09-09 Geopolitics for Individuals
2014-09-03 How to Fall Off the Wagon
2014-08-26 The Creation and Destruction of Habits
2014-08-12 The Economics of Pricelessness
2014-07-30 The Heirloom Lounge
2014-07-23 Structure Follows Context
2014-07-17 How Different Cultures Understand Time
2014-07-09 A Koan is not a Riddle
2014-06-25 Language and Strategy
2014-06-12 Everyone is Special
2014-06-04 Saints and Traders: The John Henry Fable Reconsidered
2014-05-10 Two Examples of Narrative Time
2014-04-16 A Life with a View
2014-04-03 Ritual and the Productive Community
2014-03-26 Love Your Parasites
2014-03-06 Immortality in the Ocean of Infinite Memories
2014-01-28 Technical Debt of the West
2014-01-13 When Finishing is Easier than Starting
2013-12-30 New Year's Resolutions as Self-Directed Camp
2013-11-19 Deep Play: An Impressionistic Theory of Innovation
2013-11-13 The Gooseberry Fallacy
2013-11-07 UX and the Civilizing Process
2013-10-31 On Staying Grounded
2013-10-02 Truth in Consulting
2013-09-18 Freedom in Smooth Space
2013-09-04 Projected Presence
2013-08-14 An Archetypes Map
2013-07-25 The Networked Narrative
2013-07-01 Consciousness: An Outside View
2013-06-24 Lagrangian and Eulerian Decision-Making
2013-06-06 On the Unraveling of Scripts
2013-05-21 Schleps, Puzzles, and Packages: Solving Complex Problems the Iron Man Way
2013-05-16 The Gervais Principle VI: Children of an Absent God
2013-04-17 So I Shall be Written, So I Shall be Performed
2013-04-10 A Beginner's Guide to Immortality
2013-03-05 Honesty and the Human Body
2013-02-28 The National Day of Unplugging
2013-02-20 Solidarity and Recursion
2013-02-19 The Cloistered Hedgehog and The Dislocated Fox
2013-01-31 Stone-Soup for the Capitalist's Soul
2013-01-16 Eternal Hypochondria of the Expanding Mind
2012-12-30 Roundup of 2012 Tempoblog Posts
2012-11-05 At Home, in a Car
2012-10-29 Anthropology of Mid-Sized Startups
2012-10-29 The Examined Life
2012-10-04 The Abundances of Ages
2012-09-27 Cloud Mouse, Metro Mouse
2012-09-11 Romanticism and Classicism (Assembly Required)
2012-08-30 The Varieties of Scientific Experience
2012-07-30 Literary Darwinism
2012-07-24 Happily Almost Ever After: Towards a Romantic Account of Détente
2012-06-18 Analysis-Paralysis and The Sensemaking Trap
2012-06-13 Getting Ahead, Getting Along, Getting Away
2012-06-05 Towards an Appreciative View of Technology
2012-05-28 Forged Groups
2012-05-09 Welcome to the Future Nauseous
2012-05-03 Rediscovering Literacy
2012-04-16 Hacking Grand Narratives
2012-04-11 How Do You Run Away from Home?
2012-04-10 Trigger Narratives and the Nuclear Option
2012-03-01 The Second Most Important Archetype in your Life
2012-02-29 Just Add Water
2012-02-20 Live Life, Not Projects
2012-02-16 Glimpses of a Cryptic God
2012-02-13 Motifs, Mascots and Muses at Refactor Camp, 2012
2012-02-02 How to Name Things
2012-01-28 Does Culture Eat Strategy for Lunch?
2012-01-27 Peak Attention and the Colonization of Subcultures
2012-01-18 The World is Small and Life is Long
2012-01-11 Seeking Density in the Gonzo Theater
2011-11-16 The Evolution of the American Dream
2011-11-11 Technology and the Baroque Unconscious
2011-10-26 Three Deep Videos and a Roundup
2011-10-19 The Quest for Immortality
2011-10-14 The Gervais Principle V: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
2011-10-04 The Stream Map of the World
2011-09-29 Ubiquity Illusions and the Chicken-Egg Problem
2011-08-26 The Scientific Sensibility
2011-08-10 A Proposed Grand Narrative for the History of Debt
2011-07-14 Diamonds versus Gold
2011-07-13 Storytelling for Problem-Solving
2011-07-07 The End of the Parade
2011-06-24 Semi-Annual Roundup 2011 and Highlights for New Readers
2011-06-03 Towards Thick Strategy Narratives
2011-05-24 Dulce Domum
2011-05-24 IARPA Starts Metaphor-Based Decision-Making Research
2011-05-21 Timepass and Boredom
2011-05-20 \"Ready, Fire, Aim,\" with Wild Bill
2011-05-15 On Ritual Time
2011-05-14 The Author's Journey and the Blogger's Journey
2011-05-14 Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia
2011-05-12 Freytag Staircases in Nashville
2011-05-09 Time Travel for Ghosts
2011-05-08 Peak Oil and the Tempo of the Earth
2011-04-21 The Russian Fox and the Evolution of Intelligence
2011-04-07 Extroverts, Introverts, Aspies and Codies
2011-03-17 Cognitive Archeology of the West
2011-03-10 The Return of the Barbarian
2011-02-23 Memories of Namdapha
2011-01-06 The Gollum Effect
2010-12-13 Update on Tempo
2010-11-16 What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from the Poor
2010-11-06 The World of Garbage
2010-10-20 Coloring the Whole Egg: Fixing Integrated Marketing
2010-10-14 The Gervais Principle IV: Wonderful Human Beings
2010-10-07 How Good Becomes the Enemy of Great
2010-09-14 Cricket as Metaphor
2010-09-08 King Gustavus' Folly: The Story of the Vasa
2010-08-30 Morning is Wiser Than Evening
2010-08-15 Cultural Learnings of Blogosphere for Make Benefit Glorious Blog of Ribbonfarm.
2010-08-09 How to Take a Walk
2010-08-03 Down with Innovation, Up with Imitation!
2010-07-07 Becalmed in the Summer Doldrums
2010-06-16 The Missing Folkways of Globalization
2010-06-09 Digital Security, the Red Queen, and Sexual Computing
2010-05-27 In the Real World...
2010-04-14 The Gervais Principle III: The Curse of Development
2010-04-01 An Elephant, Some Batteries and Julianne Moore
2010-03-23 Amy Lin and the Ancient Eye
2010-03-18 The Turpentine Effect
2010-03-13 Linchpin by Seth Godin, and 8 Other Short Book Reviews
2010-03-07 An Infrastructure Pilgrimage
2010-02-17 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor
2010-02-13 Safar aur Musafir: The Hero's Journey in Bollywood
2010-02-11 Guest Post on VentureBeat on the iPad
2010-02-09 Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich
2010-02-04 The Genealogy of the Gervais Principle
2010-01-28 The Misanthrope's Guide to the End of the World
2010-01-23 Impro by Keith Johnstone
2010-01-17 \"Up in the Air\" and the Future of Work
2010-01-07 On the Deathly Cold
2009-12-07 Social Objects: Notes on Knitting in America
2009-11-11 The Gervais Principle II: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk
2009-10-30 Baital Pachisi: An Indian Vampire Meta-Story
2009-10-07 The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to "The Office"
2009-09-28 The Tao of Frogger
2009-09-23 The Allegory of the Stage
2009-09-14 Knowing and Caring
2009-08-31 How to Think Like Hercule Poirot
2009-08-27 The Outlaw Sea by William Langewiesche
2009-08-16 The Tragicomic Exasperations of Expertise
2009-08-10 Humor as Massage
2009-08-06 On Seeing Like a Cat
2009-07-01 The Rhetoric of the Hyperlink
2009-05-28 The Hunter-Gatherer Theory of Markets and Shopping
2009-04-15 Coworking: \"I'm Outta Here\" by Jones, Sundsted and Bacigalupo
2009-04-08 Design and Architecture
2009-03-26 The Tragedy of Wiio's Law
2009-02-21 The Solemn Whimsies of Larry Morris
2009-02-17 The Training of the Organization Man
2009-02-10 Health and the Happy Hamster
2009-01-23 Enculturation Recapitulates Civilization
2008-11-23 The Ideology of the Organization Man
2008-11-18 The Organization Man by William Whyte: Introduction
2008-11-14 Spanning Silos by David Aaker
2008-11-05 The Cloud President, Obama
2008-09-01 The Bloody-Minded Pleasures of Engineering
2008-08-24 How We Fly: Aircraft as Career Metaphors
2008-08-13 Some Pointers to Thinking Styles
2008-08-05 The Next Level of the Game
2008-07-21 Towards a Philosophy of Destruction
2008-07-06 Happy First Birthday, Ribbonfarm
2008-06-16 Roundup: March 21 - June 16
2008-05-20 The Evolution of Work-Life
2008-05-05 Art for Thought
2008-04-19 A Map of the World 2.0 Canon
2008-04-17 The Other Games Indians Play
2008-04-14 The Sage of Ribbonfarm #1
2008-03-27 The Founding Fathers of Technology
2008-03-23 Johnny Bunko and the Future of Work
2008-03-16 Bargaining with your Right Brain
2008-03-12 On Japan as a Robot-Loving Nation
2008-02-16 A Map of Communication
2008-02-06 Creative Destruction: Portrait of an Idea
2008-02-04 How the Internet is Really Evolving
2008-01-31 The Broken Brain Books
2008-01-22 Mousetrap 2.0: A Comicbook
2007-11-25 Clockspeed and Business Genetics Reconsidered
2007-11-19 The Deeper Meaning of Kindle
2007-11-01 Personal Brands, Identity and Perception Management
2007-10-25 An MBA in Gordon's Restaurant
2007-09-26 The Dawn of the Century of Food
2007-09-13 Book-Reading Meme
2007-08-22 The Twitter Zone and Virtual Geography
2007-08-15 Ten Years in America
2007-07-20 Harry Potter and the Cuaron Slam
2007-07-13 Harry Potter and the Leaky Genre
2007-07-11 The Third Dimension is Not Simple
2007-07-06 Harry Potter and the Concept of Magic
2007-07-02 The House of Tata and Indian Innovation