Nullifidian
| Industry | Science |
|---|---|
| Location | San Diego, California, United States |
| Introduction | "[The mind] must combine the indicative mood with the subjunctive one, yoking a coldly demystified sense of the present to a warmly imaginative leap beyond it. It must respect and refuse the world in the same act. The mind is called upon to be both mirror and lamp, faithfully reflecting its surroundings while shedding a transformative light upon them. The flights of fantasy which get in the way of trying to see the situation straight are vital to imagining an alternative to it. We must be moved by visions of a future in which men and women would be made physically sick by the act of dominating others, while remaining stony-faced and churlishly suspicious before the blandishments of the present. If the Romantic conforms the world to his or her desire, and the realist conforms the mind to the world, the revolutionary is called upon to do both at once." — Terry Eagleton, Figures of Dissent |
| Interests | Writing, music, the theatre, working out, hiking, ocean kayaking, biological research, reading, making the world safe for evolutionary biology. |
| Favorite Movies | Blue Planet: Seas of Life, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Le dernier métro, Farehnheit 451, Blue, L'avventura, La Strada, The Big Chill, The Contender, Nixon, Is Paris Burning?, Es Geschah am hellichten Tag, The Pledge, Insomnia, Night on Earth, Control Room, The Ascent of Man, Cosmos, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Pollock, Reds, Dr. Erlich's Magic Bullet, Madame Curie, The Freshman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Heiress, Twelve Angry Men, Inherit the Wind, Judgment at Nuremberg, American History X |
| Favorite Music | Fuel, Pink Floyd, Rise Against, Culture Shock Camp, Immortal Technique, Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, Sublime, King Crimson, Led Zepplin, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Ives, Ligeti, Kurtag, Verdi, Jacquet de la Guerre, Viardot, Farrenc, Crawford Seeger, Berg, Schoenberg, Webern, Boulez, Xenakis, Aperghis, Searle, Gubaidulina, Ustvolskaya, Varese, Zimmermann, Rihm, Ruders, Saariaho, Reich, Ferneyhough, Carter, Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart, Monteverdi, Ockeghem, Hildegard von Bingen, Perotin, Gesualdo |
| Favorite Books | Surveillance and Security: Technological Power and Politics in Everyday Life, The Conquest of Bread, The Decameron, Das Versprechen, The Aleph and Other Stories, The Twelve Caesars, The Aeneid, At the Water's Edge, The Dispossessed, The Lord of the Rings, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, Les Liaisons dangereuses, Post-Scarcity Anarchism, Discipline and Punish, Desert Solitaire, The Blind Watchmaker, Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, The Pale Blue Dot, Cosmos, The Ascent of Man, Science and Human Values, The Order of Things, Timeless Reality, The Unconscious Quantum, Orientalism, Don Carlos |