Second, start asking boring questions about the systems you participate in. Who profits when this feature works as designed? Who gets hurt? Who gets to say “not my department”?
Don’t scroll past. What do you think — have we lost the meaning of “evil,” or are we just seeing its new face? Drop a comment or reply. Let’s talk about the uncomfortable stuff.
We throw the word "evil" around casually these days. A glitchy app is evil. A late delivery is evil. Someone cutting in line? Pure evil.
Because the most dangerous evil isn’t the one that screams. It’s the one that asks you to scroll past, just this once, and not think too hard about what’s happening behind the screen.
Sound familiar?
Second, start asking boring questions about the systems you participate in. Who profits when this feature works as designed? Who gets hurt? Who gets to say “not my department”?
Don’t scroll past. What do you think — have we lost the meaning of “evil,” or are we just seeing its new face? Drop a comment or reply. Let’s talk about the uncomfortable stuff.
We throw the word "evil" around casually these days. A glitchy app is evil. A late delivery is evil. Someone cutting in line? Pure evil.
Because the most dangerous evil isn’t the one that screams. It’s the one that asks you to scroll past, just this once, and not think too hard about what’s happening behind the screen.
Sound familiar?
Ligeti and mathematics
The renowned mathematician Heinz-Otto Peitgen talks about his friendship with György Ligeti, the composer's interest in mathematics and the discoveries of chaos theory.
First page of the autograph fair score of L’escalier du diable (Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel).
Copy of the autograph fair score of L'escalier du diable, with annotations by the composer, page 1 (detail), Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel. The inscription in the right-hand margin reads 'revised MS, this is authoritative'.
Copy of the autograph fair score of L'escalier du diable, with annotations by the composer, page 1 (detail), Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel. The inscription in the right-hand margin reads 'revised MS, this is authoritative'. Second, start asking boring questions about the systems
Bar 7-2: György Ligeti: Étude 13, bar 7/2, left hand, 9th – 11th quaver (eighth note)
Bar 36-3: György Ligeti: Étude 13, bar 36/3, right hand, 9th – 12th quaver (eighth note) Who gets to say “not my department”
Bar 41: György Ligeti: Étude 13, bar 41/1, left hand, 8th – 12th quaver (eighth note)
Copy of the autograph fair score of L’escalier du diable, with annotations by the composer, page 6 (detail), Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel. Drop a comment or reply
Bar 45-3: György Ligeti: Étude 13, bar 45/3, right hand, 11th – 12th quaver (eighth note)
Bar 46-1a: György Ligeti: Étude 13, bar 46/1, right hand, 3th – 4th quaver (eighth note)
Bar 46-1b: György Ligeti: Étude 13, bar 46/1, right hand, 5th – 7th quaver (eighth note)
