Pulp Hilobrow (1)
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*** An occasional series, which follows up on themes explored in the ten-part HiLobrow Cover Art series.
Read This PostAuthor: Joshua Glenn
Josh Glenn, HILOBROW's editor, is a principal of the commercial semiotics agency Semiovox. He is co-author and/or co-editor of several books, including The Idler's Glossary, Significant Objects, and the bestselling family activities guide UNBORED. In the ’00s, Josh was a columnist and blogger for the Boston Globe's IDEAS section; in the ’90s, he published the zine/journal Hermenaut. He lives in Kingston, NY.
Chess Match (7)
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“Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.” — William Steinitz, Austrian-American chess player and the first undisputed world chess champion, […]
Read This PostForget the Fembot
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According to an AP story today, “the world’s first sex robot” is now for sale from True Companion, a Lincoln Park, N.J.-based company. For $7,000 to $9,000, you can take home the Roxxxy, a high-end […]
Read This PostHilo Iconography, still inchoate
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Chess sets, and Scrabble, certainly. But not Battleship, Mastermind, Risk, Monopoly, Clue? Bicycles, and pipes (the kind you smoke). But not skateboards or cigarettes, muscle cars or cigars? Teapots and typewriters. But not coffeepots or […]
Read This PostChess Match (6)
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“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem… I have come to the personal conclusion […]
Read This PostHilo Kudos
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… to Erik Davis, a regular contributor to HiLobrow.com, whose essay “Kosmiche: Krautrock and the Sublime” in the newly published book Krautrock (Black Dog, ed. Nikos Kotsopoulos), is great stuff. Excerpt: In the nineteenth century, […]
Read This PostA Rondel for Hilo Heroes
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Celebrating thirteen HiLo Heroes about whom we wrote in 2009.
Read This PostDoyle v. Houdini
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Over at the BN Review, today, HiLobrow.com coeditor Matthew Battles and HiLobrow.com contributor Joe Alterio (who is one of our favorite artists) have collaborated on a terrific slideshow pegged to the 150th anniversary of the […]
Read This PostBraincrush!
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Noticed this over at Ninjaclectic’s Twitter feed today… The link is to Peggy Nelson’s latest Artist-in-Residence post for HiLobrow. Nelson’s tenure as our A-i-R is almost over! Not to worry, though, she’ll continue blogging for […]
Read This PostLeibnizian Spacetime vs. Pincushion Owl
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Over at Significant Objects today, Margaret Wertheim of the admirable Institute for Figuring tells a story about an owl-shaped pincushion and its role in the discovery that Leibniz was right to reject Newton’s notion of […]
Read This PostChess Match (5)
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“The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from […]
Read This PostChess Match (4)
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“At present my life can almost be likened to what a chess-piece in a game must feel when the opponent says: This piece is not to be touched — like an idle onlooker; for my hour […]
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