Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own
by Garett Jones · 15 Feb 2015 · 247pp · 64,986 words
’s Xavier Sala-i-Martin wrote their textbook Economic Growth, they put a Salvador Dali painting on the cover: melting trees, melting clocks, melting mountains.13 It’s a little bit crazy, like many of the best economic ideas. The melting clocks are especially appropriate to this chapter. For patient people, time just seems to
Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture
by Justin McGuirk · 15 Feb 2014 · 246pp · 76,561 words
. Luciano takes me on a tour of them, mostly passable renditions of art-historical masterpieces. Guernica and Hokusai’s wave are here, as are Dalí’s melting clocks. They are the works of a local artist known as Pepi, who has since moved out of Piedrabuena. In front of an ersatz version of
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Story of Anonymous
by Gabriella Coleman · 4 Nov 2014 · 457pp · 126,996 words
massive.” He was one—among four I met—of those organizers and brokers essential to making Anonymous’s clock tick, a device which resembled Dali’s gooey melting clocks more than a Swiss machine. For much of the fall of 2010, Adnon was an avid spectator on IRC, only occasionally chipping in on
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection
by Michael Harris · 6 Aug 2014 · 259pp · 73,193 words
, full of details I can note and well-stocked shops I can peruse. What I have instead is a desert by Dalí, composed mainly of whistling empty space and the occasional melting clock. I survive on digital cues—my phone is an able secretary, prompting me with reminders and calendars and notes about
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
by Steve Martin · 20 Nov 2007
in to glorious Manhattan. Saucer-eyed, we hustled over to the Museum of Modern Art, where we saw, among the Cézannes and Matisses, Dalí’s famous painting of melting clocks, the shockingly tiny The Persistence of Memory. We were dismayed to find that Warhol and Lichtenstein had not yet been ordained. We drove
Hollow City
by Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg · 1 Jan 2001
through dozen years ago, put cafe of the Mission thought he'd make it, "It back in the 1980s and then it Almodovar posters and melting clocks on the chosen I first sinewy old wacko with tattered As Keating, who moved to San Francisco used to be He slurs. which was one