they tended to be one note, and AI was sort of infinitely clever, but didn't really have much purpose apart from to kill everybody and was just this kind of sort of Borg -like fog. And I thought, "That's fine, but maybe we can do something, you know, more interesting." AI is being built by humans, and humans, you know, and builtby computer engineers, and there's a lot of power struggles in any computer engineering team. So I just wanted to explore the idea of it was built by two
She is haunted at times by her past so much, in fact, that it limits her ability to act and decide in the present. As Argentinian short story writer, Jorges Borges , said, "Perfect memory pushes humans to get lost in detail with no ability to generalize,to abstract, and to evolve They lose," Borges writes, "what truly makes us human." Tethered to an ever more detailed past, rather
and people to read them. And Borges isn’t the only writer who explored these possibilities. I’ve gotta tell you about “Los detectives salvajes,” “The Savage Detectives” by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño.
In 1503, he's sent to cover the papal election. The Borgia pope, Alexander VI has died, and he is succeeded by Julius II. Machiavelli meets, of course, both these people, and he subsequently has several meetings with Julius II.
And that was a very good idea, because he lived at the time when the Borgias reigned. And the Borgias-- just everybody who got involved in their politics got more or less killed. Leonardo, by staying completely out of politics, actually managed to have them patron his works, and funding.
Now of course, we've seen this idea of getting data in and out of the brain in science fiction for a long time. We've seen in the Borg in Star Trek, for instance, where connectivity of the brain makes a super-organism that's very homogeneous. We've seen it in The Nexus, where the great American philosopher, Keanu Reeves, gets to say I know Kung Fu.
and in society and especially at homeboy industries is to reach in in to dismantle a messages of shame and disgrace the great scripture scholar Marcus Borg says the principal suffering of the poor throughout history and throughout Scripture is shame and disgrace and I think that's quite right how do you
He resists the idea that to be an Argentine writer means only dabbling in your own backyard: “We must believe that the universe is our birthright and try out every subject.” Borges is capturing a tension between the local and the global that can be found in a lot of Latin American literature. In communities living with the legacy of colonization, you can’t start asking a question like “Who are we?” without searching the world for answers.
you're talking about a 100% to 125% difference in all-cause mortality. And if you don't want to learn the Borg scale, which is fine, you can just do something very simple, which is, am I able
and learn that lesson or that were a dumb idea in a different time but didn't work for reasons that now would work? that's going to sharecrop everybody off and Borg -like absorb them.
So we tried to take advantage of that. So if we take a game like "Memoir 44," Richard Borg developed that game, and designed a great game about the--
But she praised the newest translation by Douglas J. Weatherford, writing that “Maybe the novel was … meant to be translated three times before it seeped more broadly and indelibly into the Anglophone consciousness.” Which makes me think back to Borges ’s infinite library, and how the possibilities for literature go on and on and on. There’s so many untranslated Latin American works out there, waiting to be added to those shelves!
Books are a huge source of inspiration for filmmakers, too. Sometimes indirectly — like how Christopher Nolan cited Jorge Luis Borges as an inspiration behind his blockbuster film “Inception.” And sometimes directly — like when a filmmaker adapts an author’s text for the screen.
And this might have been, by the way, a good time to invent religion, when you first started understanding what the future holds. And I think this point is beautifully made by Jorge Luis Borges , "To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death." So certainly seeing into the long term future is what characterizes our species in many ways.
whose work coincides word for word with a whole section of "Don Quixote" by Cervantes. I don't know anyone who makes pithy Borges references when jet lagged, apart from Rob Storr. He also, I think, loves art enough that you'll see him at exhibition openings at the Museum of Modern Art. He's also currently the Dean of the Art School at Yale and I saw him most recently at an open studio for a long time MoMA art handler so these are the
Latin American writers are being read all over the world, and inspiring new voices to join their own. And you know what? I think Borges was right. The universe was our birthright all along.
about numbers and geometry. Sort of like, if anyone knows Borges 's "Library of Babel," in that short story, the library contains every single book that is possible to write. At first sight, that looks like it's got everything.
Saki Masuda. I'm Ximena Borges , and I'm the composer for Heidi Latsky's piece.
They have him living in a house that would have made the Borgias shrink.
Borges , said, "Perfect memory pushes humans to get lost in detail with no ability to generalize,to abstract, and to evolve They lose," Borges writes, "what truly makes us human." Tethered to an ever more detailed past, rather than living and acting in the present. This is the fate we may face with comprehensive
Plus, many Latin American authors have been translators themselves. Julio Cortázar translated Edgar Allan Poe’s work into Spanish, and Borges was a super-prolific translator who brought works by English writers, like Walt Whitman and Virginia Woolf, to Spanish-speaking readers.
emptiness of the whole colonial project as, “based on death…on nada.” And Fuentes wasn’t the only writer to explore Latin American identity by thinking globally. Before him, in Argentina, Jorge Luis Borges wrestled with these issues in his work. He was of Spanish, Portuguese, and English descent, educated in Switzerland, and traveled often to Europe.
His whole life — and work — was at the crossroads of these identity intersections. And in his 1951 essay, “El escritor argentino y la tradición,” “The Argentine Writer and Tradition," Borges encourages others to work at these crossroads, too. He resists the idea that to be an Argentine writer means only dabbling in your own backyard: “We must believe that the universe is our birthright
which was the "House of Cards" version for Denmark of Danish politics-- the worst thing that happens in "Borgen" is that the prime minister uses his office credit
There is one topic that he really stayed completely off, and that was politics. And that was a very good idea, because he lived at the time when the Borgias reigned. And the Borgias-- just everybody who got involved in their politics got more or less killed.
I mean, I used to watch on television Victor Borge and Liberace, because they were on TV, and Jimmy Durante-- who, by the way, way before the Cream--
very complex, very labyrinthine, almost Borgesian in complexity. Yeah, labyrinthine,
on wood, we're using bronze in our fermenters and then Birra Del Borgo just built these beautiful huge terracotta fermenters. So in a way you kind of look at the whole culinary
And utilitarianism sort of seeks, at times, to eliminate the barriers between people and to say-- it's almost like we're the Borg or something, from "Star Trek
and learn that lesson or that were a dumb idea in a different time but didn't work for reasons that now would work? That if you have a period of time where you're allowing companies to innovate and to find their product market fit without being absorbed by the Borg
OK? Can you speculate what could be the physics of alternating the frequency of the shield to Borg attacks?
"Mum?" she asks, jaw dropping as she stares up at the giant borg on the doorstep.
Let’s get back to the story. That room of books is from a 1941 short story called “La biblioteca de Babel,” “The Library of Babel,” by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges . Remember that guy who said Latin American writers should “believe the universe is birthright”?
Or maybe — hear me out — we can open ourselves to the possibility that literature isn’t limited to just one meaning. I mean, here we are, decades later, still talking about what Borges ’s infinite library was all about. A writer doesn’t get the final word on their words.
And I was saying earlier that, to my mind, the metric of this, if you've watched the wonderful television series "Borgen,"
what was the plan? Plan was um, my name is Allesandre Borgganon. Um, I own a few restaurants in New York City at the
But in a concise amount of the time, I thought it might be good to be able to play and talk, sort of like Victor Borge meets Deepak Chopra.
The "New York Times" describes his recent bestselling hit "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore" as a rollicking neo-Borgesian tale about an unemployed San Francisco web
of the avant garde. You had James Joyce. You had Jorge Luis Borges . You had Akira Kurosawa, Jean Luc Godard.
often or linger for more than a few minutes at a time. But in a slightly less central location, along one edge of the Villa Borghese Park, was the Roman Sport Forum or La Roman,
called "Teach Yourself Post Modernism", part of the same series as "Teach Yourself Bridge" which I also own, and he looked at it and said, "I didn't write this book." And I said, "Well, it's a guide to postmodernism. It would be appropriate if you signed it." And he signed it Pierre Menard aka Robert Storr which is a reference to a Borges story about an author whose work coincides word for word with a whole section of "Don Quixote" by Cervantes.