Meaning
The quality without a name
The meaning of objects
The meaning of music
A creature of bones, not words
The shape of the sentence
To build a folly
- ââDesigned to be ruinsââ
- ââFolliesââ
- ââThermal aediculaeââ
Let the meaning choose the word
Taboo your words
The arbitrariness of the sign
- ââGods of the Wordââ
The eye does not see
The utter nothingness of being
Whereof one cannot speak
Not knowing quite what they mean
Things cannot be other than as they are
50 reds
No words to describe
That is not it at all
A soft and fitful luster
Reference and Is-ness
The demand of a new word
Apparency
Fish and water
The word invents itself
AI-art isnât art
The Future Is Not Only Useless, Itâs Expensive
The Gifted Listener: Composer Aaron Copland on Honing Your Talent for Listening to Music
On 'The Master and His Emissary'
A brief foray into vectorial semantics
The way an oyster does
The primacy of interpretation over sensation
The body image
Meaningness
The Tiling Patterns of Sebastien Truchet and the Topology of Structural Hierarchy
- ââSeparation and connection in all thingsââ
- ââCorpuscles of nothing and atoms of somethingââ
- ââThe scale of resolution determines what is seenââ
- ââThis is historyââ
- ââTruchet Tilesââ
- ââThe Sense of Orderââ
- ââThe Shape of Timeââ
- ââWang tilesââ
Separation and connection in all things
Truchet's approach was more topological than geometric, and the qualitative aspects of pattern take priority over the metric ones. His principles provide a kind of metaphor for the hierarchy of separation and connection in all things.
Corpuscles of nothing and atoms of something
The structure of matter devolved ultimately into the intimate coexistence of something like corpuscles of nothing and atoms of something, segregating through the accidents of history to yield regions differing in density intimately interwoven on different scales. The experience of the world as well as human perception and analysis of any part of it is a matter of the angular scale of resolution and of the time necessary for making comparison between the different parts.
Without such variations and without time to compare remembrances of them, nothing can be experiences.
The scale of resolution determines what is seen
The patterns of Truchet's tiles appear at first glance as variously shaped interlocked regions of black and white, the boundaries between the square tiles being submerged whenever the two regions flanking them have the same color, just as in a real floor the air or cement between the tile edges is not perceivedâuntil one looks closely. The scale of resolution determines what is seen.
- ââLevels of Scaleââ
This is history
It is easy to see how rapidly diversity is developed by the aggregation of the simplest local choices of direction. This is history.