essays

Essays

Essays I’ve written over many years on various topics (in contrast to academic papers).

Contents

• Fine Art Degree essays (early 70s)
  • The I Ching (Book of Change) (code)
  • From the Personal to the Universal (code)
• Technology and Culture (2000s)
  • Cyberspace is the Astral Plane (code)
  • New Media (code)
• Science, Psychology, Social
  • Order, Disorder and the finely Tuned Universe (code)
  • Purpose and Purposelessness (code)
• Personal Observations
  • Perception (code)
  • Experience (code)

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Pandoc compilation:

• pandoc DOCUMENT_NAME.md -f markdown_mmd+yaml_metadata_block --pdf-engine=pdflatex --top-level-division=chapter -o DOCUMENT_NAME.pdf
• pandoc DOCUMENT_NAME.md -f markdown_mmd+yaml_metadata_block --pdf-engine=pdflatex -o DOCUMENT_NAME.pdf
• simple pdf: pandoc index.md -f markdown --pdf-engine=xelatex -o OUTPUT_NAME.pdf

Better example with footnotes, using I Ching essay (AFTER making BACKUP of old file!):

• pandoc index.md -f markdown+footnotes -t latex --wrap=none --top-level-division=chapter -s -o iching.tex
• then: xelatex iching