Bøker av Paul Smart

An exploration of musical legacy, Overlook: A Rock and Roll Fable delves into the mysteries of intuitive talent and creation. It is a dance between art and appreciation, between star and fan. It is a chronicle of the last journey of a fictionalized incarnation of the great singer Richard Manuel, of The Band, as he travels back to his adopted home of Woodstock. There he encounters Klokko, a lone mountain man, who is himself searching for meaning beyond the music that he has always turned to. The novel moves through landscapes redolent of mid-1980s America, and deep into the effect of rock and roll on our collective soul. It's about coming to terms with ourselves.

Expands the interdisciplinary scope of Web Science, specifically to accommodate cognitive science and the philosophy of mind. There is a substantial literature to support this expansionist agenda, and now is arguably the time to review it and explore the nature of the linkages that connect the science of the Web with the sciences of the mind.