![]() May, 2021 Buy Totally Disconnected on Amazon. With kind regards and gratitude to the reader who made it to the end of this introduction, But I’m all about square peg into round hole thinking, so I’m not going to let a few axioms stop me. They often fit into more than one of these categories and sometime they don’t fit any. Gorbachev died on August 30 at the age of 91. I have no idea how to classify most of my poems according to this scheme. political scientist Francis Fukuyama says Mikhail Gorbachev will be remembered for his 'unparalleled' contribution to human freedom. Field: The natural, scientific and mythological world.Ring: A close, intimate or forced relationship.Group: A collection of people or things.But again, these words from the heights of mathematical theory can be used purely metaphorically: It takes a first course in abstract algebra to understand these words in a mathematical sense and I’m not going to even try to explain. These correspond to mathematical objects called groups, rings and fields. With that unpleasant introduction in mind, there are three loose themes I write about. Near-term human extinction is, unfortunately, not entirely implausible. ![]() Collectively, we are facing the disintegration of relationships, the uglification of politics, widespread disease, poverty and conflict, and a climate moving towards creating an inhospitable planet. But they also look at the larger context of humanity’s ever evolving disconnection with the natural and physical world. These poems are first of all about my personal disconnection. But, ask me to remember a phone number, that I can do! Music, games and mathematics all come easily to me. Life is passing me by and I’m missing it. Often, I can’t recall meeting people who seem to know me quite well. I can’t remember the details of many of the most important events in my life. But they also look at the larger context of humanity’s ever evolving disconnection with the natural and physical world. This nuanced phrase has followed me through the years.Īs I started writing poetry I realized that totally disconnected is a metaphor for how I seem to miss out on social signals that are obvious to most people. I worked extensively with a certain totally disconnected space for my Ph.D. In mathematics, totally disconnected refers to a type of topological space that you can look up on Wikipedia, if you’re into that kind of thing.
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