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"Heidegger thought that "the hand holds our humanity, as it holds a pen". "Modern man", he observes, "with scarcely disguised revulsion" (Ingold's words), ‘writes “with” the typewriter’. So the typing is not really a writing *with* at all. It is merely the mechanical transcription of words to paper. What is lost, in this transcription is, the ductus of the hand. Well, typewriters are the least of our problems, Martin." — 2 hours, 30 min ago
"Heidegger thought that "the hand holds our humanity, as it holds a pen". "Modern man", he observes, "with scarcely disguised revulsion" (Ingold's words), ‘writes “with” the typewriter’. So the typing is not really a writing *with* at all. It is merely the mechanical transcription of words to paper. What is lost, in this transcription is, the ductus of the hand. Well, typewriters are the least of our problems, Martin." — 2 hours, 30 min ago
“Человек не может исчезнуть моментально и полностью, прежде он превращается в нечто отличное от себя по форме и по сути, -- например, в вальс, в отдаленный, звучащий чуть слышно вечерний вальс, то есть исчезает частично, а уж потом исчезает полностью.”
― A School for Fools
― A School for Fools
“Flat paintings are so commonplace that we seldom ask why flat representations work so well. If we really experience the world as 3D, an image seen in a flat picture would distort jarringly when we move in front of it. But it does not do so as long as it is flat. A folded picture, in contrast, distorts as we move around it. Our ability to interpret representations that are less than 3D indicates that we do not experience the visual world as truly 3D, and has allowed flat pictures (and movies) to dominate our visual environment as an economical and convenient substitute for 3D representations. This tolerance of flat representations is found in all cultures, infants, and in other species, so it cannot result from learning a convention of representation. Imagine how different our culture would be if we could not make sense of flat representations.”
― The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present
― The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present
“Вообще, было бы неплохо, если бы проза так же перла, как трава или стишки. Не было бы всех этих споров, хорошо написал или плохо. Поперло – значит, хорошо. Не поперло – плохо.”
― Опосредованно
― Опосредованно
“Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.”
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“What is distinctive about the customs surrounding hospitality in [archaic Greek] culture is that elite men who have entered one another's homes and have been entertained appropriately are understood to have created a bond of "guest-friendship" (xenia) between their households that will continue into future generations. ... It is created not by proximity and kinship, but by a set of behaviors that create bonds between people who are geographically distant from each other. Xenia is thus a networking tool that allows for the expansion of Greek power, from the unit of the family to the city-state and then across the Mediterranean world. It is the means by which unrelated elite families can connect to one another as equals, without having to fight for dominance. ... The poem's episodes can be seen as a sequence of case studies in the concept of xenia.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
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