The Beauty of Suspension: Yanny vs. Laurel

Why it’s not about the versus but a cry to learn to be together again. (And adding Rancière to the debate)

Once up on a time, there was the story of the Rubin Vase. Created as a psychological experiment, Edgar Rubin had eyes dramatically move between different coloured contours laid out on a single sheet of paper. One was a vase. The other, two faces. The eyes in the experiment were forced to make a dramatic decision (omg, how dare they!). But how could someone handle it? How could they…