Other Texts by Borges:
- Borges, Jorge Luis. “Two Kings, Two Labyrinths”. Collected Fictions. Trans. Andrew Hurley. London: Penguin.
- Borges, Jorge Luis. “The Art of Fiction No. 39”. (Archived). Interview with Ronald Christ. The Paris Review 40 (Winter/Spring 1967).
Borges Websites:
- Ciabattari, Jane. “Is Borges the 20th Century’s most important writer?”. BBC. September 1, 2014.
Borges and the Internet:
- Cohen, Noam. “Borges and the Foreseeable Future”. New York Times. Jan. 6, 2008. “A growing number of contemporary commentators–whether literature professors or cultural critics like Umberto Eco–have concluded that Borges uniquely, bizarrely, prefigured the World Wide Web.”
- Redpath, C. T. “On Borges’ Discovery of the Internet Before it Existed”. Medium. May 15, 2016. “I couldn’t help but wonder if Borges was describing our relationship with smartphones and the internet back in 1975.”
- Goodwin, Danny. “Hypertext Visionary Jorge Luis Borges Celebrated with Google Logo”. Search Engine Watch. August 24, 2011. “Before there was the World Wide Web, the Internet, hypertext markup, or even a digital computer, there was Jorge Luis Borges’ idea of ‘forking paths.'”
Two Writers of Introductions to Labyrinths:
“Maurois was born on 26 July 1885 in Elbeuf and educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen, both in Normandy. A member of the Javal family, Maurois was the son of Ernest Herzog, a Jewish textile manufacturer, and his wife Alice Lévy-Rueff. [. . .] During World War I he joined the French army and served as an interpreter for Lieutenant Colonel Winston Churchill (according to Martin Gilbert in Churchill and the Jews, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2007) and later a liaison officer with the British army. His first novel, Les silences du colonel Bramble, was a witty and socially realistic account of that experience. It was an immediate success in France. It was translated and became popular in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries as The Silence of Colonel Bramble. [. . .] In 1938 Maurois was elected to the prestigious Académie française. He was encouraged and assisted in seeking this post by Marshal Philippe Pétain, and he made a point of acknowledging with thanks his debt to Pétain in his 1941 autobiography, Call no man happy – though by the time of writing their paths had sharply diverged, Pétain having become Head of State of Vichy France. [. . .] He died in 1967 in Neuilly-sur-Seine after a long career as an author of novels, biographies, histories, children’s books and science fiction stories. He is buried in Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery near Paris.” (Wikipedia)
“William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans—a “combination of lowlife and high tech”—and helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. Gibson coined the term “cyberspace” for “widespread, interconnected digital technology” in his short story “Burning Chrome” (1982), and later popularized the concept in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). These early works of Gibson’s have been credited with “renovating” science fiction literature in the 1980s.” (Wikipedia)
Two Libraries on Screen:
The Name of the Rose – Labyrinth Library Part (1986):
Interstellar – The Watch and Closing Tesseract Full Scene:
Fractals:
Eye of the Universe – Mandelbrot Fractal Zoom (e1091) (4k 60fps):
Fractals in Nature:
