150 - The Breakdown between Metaphor and Origin

This begins our discussion on the introduction of photography, and how it changed the world. On this episode, we talk: Our reflections on the Lost Xplorers journey, doing what energizes you, expressions of gratitude, unknown callers, the difficulty of procrastination, beds of nails, never leaving well enough alone, Robert Loewy, one person having a huge effect, iron horses, the beginning of modernity, do photographs steal souls?, Tom Bombadil, self-explaining grammars, not understanding money, the ball bearing problem, the acceleration of the symbolic, things that we watch, thaumaturgy, what was lost with the invention of photography, the instant acceptance of “realism,” CGI giraffes, prepositional distance, the difference between metaphor and origin, the invention of the word “kodak,” semantic depth, the oddness of depiction, the new donut, keeping a journal of the future, where does sound come from on a VHS?, and metaphors becoming too metaphorical.