Glass Bead Game
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JustKnecht’s Loom of Form & Meaning
Charles Cameron shares JustKnecht’s Loom of Form and Meaning, a nine-category table for classifying how forms and meanings change, and links it to his own HipBone Games and to Hesse’s…
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I’m fond of saying “two is the first number”
A former think-tank analyst explains his HipBone Games, an attempt to make Hesse’s Glass Bead Game playable, arguing that patterns need two linked concepts, so that the basic move is…
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By request — the ouroboros game
Responding to a reader’s request, the author gives examples of the ouroboros, the serpent biting its own tail, from Egypt, alchemy and Vedic and Upanishadic texts to film and art,…
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Moves in the Glass Bead Game
Explains how Hesse’s Glass Bead Game works by linking two shattered Catholic images, a statue of the Virgin Mary after the Sri Lanka church bombings and a chalice standing for…
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Brownpundits- Episode 8. The Glass Bead Game (and the decline of Western Civ)
Omar talks to the poet Charles Cameron and Professor Ali Minai, who works on complex systems and AI and also writes Urdu poetry, about Hermann Hesse’s Glass Bead Game, poetry,…
