"Thought Crumbs" is the blog of yours truly, Al Scott Pearce Baker. Here, I scatter musings, short stories, poetry, and paintings, and ponder various art forms, both traditional and digital. Follow along, and who knows where you’ll end up.
Saturday, August 31, 2024
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The Name and the Net: On Definitions and the Nature of Identification
To define is to draw a circle in the sand and pretend the sea will honor it. We carve lines where being spills, we name what shifts, we sa...
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Rap music, for all its bravado and poetic dexterity, has always been as much about power as it is about sound. From the block parties of the...
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Hip-hop, that volatile ballet of syllables and swagger, resists reduction. It is neither mere music nor mere movement, but a masquerade of...
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Heraclitus of Ephesus ignites fascination and perplexity alike. Weaver of riddles, herald of fire, he stands not as a builder of systems b...