and embodied awareness, which establishes the conditions for metaphor, play, imagination, and inspiration. These four conditions are the subjects of the final four chapters. Particularly interesting is the emphasis on play, which in this context extends far beyond the more traditional notions of play therapy, rough-and-tumble play, or even imaginative play. Play here is discussed in a very spec...

In this issue of Cell, Lee et al. (2006) report that the parasite Trypanosoma brucei synthesizes fatty acids in an unconventional way. T. brucei and two other trypanosomes use enzymes called elongases to synthesize myristate, a fourteen carbon (C14) fatty acid essential for pathogenesis. This is an unexpected finding as these enzymes were thought only to elongate already long (C16 or C18) acyl ...

This article maps two divergent trajectories within a narrowly defined sphere of short-form, time-based digital media created between 1995 and 2005. Works discussed include music videos, design-oriented short films, and motion graphics by directors Michel Gondry, Virgil Widrich, Mike Nourse, Barbara Lattanzi, Rico Gatson, and design firms Logan, Ramon & Pedro, and H5. These works are considered...

This article shows how the single player videogame is by its very nature in conflict with the institution of art, and paradoxically, because of that cannot avoid becoming art itself. First, the article shows that the defining aesthetic of the videogame–its kinesthetically charged ludic rhematic–has very little in common with the meaning-centered aesthetic norms that dominate the art world. Seco...

Free jazz refers to a historical movement that, despite earlier precedents, first significantly flowered in the late 1950s in the US. Its central focus was a liberation from musical conventions – but from a jazz player’s perspective, since no liberation is ever complete. Initially known simply as the New Thing, it became Free Jazz by borrowing the title of a seminal 1960 album by saxophonist/co...