roganjosh

Some days you do a lot of things but still can’t shake the feeling that you’ve not achieved much, you know? I’ve been for a swim, been to an art gallery, bought a wok and a milk frother and just made a nice cup of coffee - but has that helped me understand the difference between causation and explanation? no, it has not!

The art gallery I went to was the Rokeby, which is a very nice little place on Store Street. It was the last day of an exhibition by Craig Fisher, who had made huge weapons out of fabric. Upstairs they were laid out on a table to start with, but as you progressed through the display they were put to more and more use, till in the basement you get the blood spattered chainsaw room shown above. It was only a small show, but I really liked it - it was a kind of toytown bloodbath.

Incidentally I found out about the show by browsing around ArtRabbit which looks like a very handy site for keeping track of what exhibitions are on and when they finish.

I’ve not mentioned the philosophy thing much on here but I’m writing an essay at the moment on how you know when you see a zebra in the zoo that you’re not looking at a cunningly disguised mule. The thing that I love most about this question is that in Tijuana they actually do cunningly disguise mules to look like zebras and then get tourists to have their pictures taken with them!

My guess is lots of epistemologists have partied down in Tijuana in their time.

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