Chess Match (5) | HiLobrow

12.28.2009

Chess Match (5)

By: Joshua Glenn | Categories: Spectacles

“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 us.”

— Thomas Henry Huxley

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Fifth in an occasional series.

Categories: Spectacles - Tags: chess-match, hilobrow-cover

About the author: Joshua Glenn

Joshua Glenn is a Boston, Mass.-based writer, editor, and cultural semiotics analyst. He's cofounder of HiLobrow (named by TIME one of the Best Blogs of 2010), Significant Objects, and Semionaut. He's been a columnist for the Boston Globe, the Observer (London), Feed.com, and the Idler; he's toiled as a magazine, website, and newspaper editor; and he's authored and edited Taking Things Seriously (2007) and The Idler's Glossary (2008). In the '90s he published the seminal intellectual/pop culture zine Hermenaut.

Read more from Joshua Glenn (323 posts) on Hilobrow.