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Learning to Be: Art#1: Spatial Music, the Music of Space
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Art#1: Spatial Music, the Music of Space. What was striking about this phenomenon is that after about a minute of watching this, I clearly experienced it as music. Music without sound, but clearly having the sort of rhythmed countour of a bunch of people playing jazz with one another, or perhaps drumming together, playing a minimalist piece like Terry Riley's In C. Or playing in hocket style, as in the polyphonic music tradition of the Banda. This might be conceptualized as an elaboration of the sort of ...
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Learning to Be: November 2009
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Art#1: Spatial Music, the Music of Space. What was striking about this phenomenon is that after about a minute of watching this, I clearly experienced it as music. Music without sound, but clearly having the sort of rhythmed countour of a bunch of people playing jazz with one another, or perhaps drumming together, playing a minimalist piece like Terry Riley's In C. Or playing in hocket style, as in the polyphonic music tradition of the Banda. This might be conceptualized as an elaboration of the sort of ...
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Learning to Be: Animal #1: In the Sway of Light: Animal Machines and Activity-Passivity
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Animal #1: In the Sway of Light: Animal Machines and Activity-Passivity. Bad Memories Written With Lasers. The Wired articles describes a mouse manipulated such that the scientists can control it, making it run counterclockwise, or stop doing so, using light controls. Techniques like these are being explored for helping with movement problems in Parkinsons. These items remind me of the cyborg beetle. Described in Technology Review, which uses an electrical rather than light based technology. Remember her...
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Learning to Be: January 2010
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Phenomenon #2: Pears, Pairing and Thinking Symbols in the Body. In which the author learns about the bodily nature of symbols shopping for pears. In this very reaching, something else appears. This is Vito Corleones gesture (beautifully and compellingly acted by Robert de Niro in Godfather: Part II. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Phenomenon #2: Pears, Pairing and Thinking Symbols. Justin Erik Halldór Smith. View my complete profile.
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Learning to Be: Art #2: Statuary & Statutory Animacy
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Art #2: Statuary and Statutory Animacy. In which the author learns about animacy from a statue. The strike by support staff at McGill is now over, so I've resumed my usual walk to work through McGill campus. It was nice to be back on old turf, and as I was walking through I found a familiar fellow catching my eye and then my whole attention, pulling me round to give a gander as I passed him by:. My affection here is for the statue, not for the fellow himself.]. How is that I perceive animacy in a statue?
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Learning to Be: December 2011
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Body #1: Insides, Outsides, Passivity and Activity in a Visit to the Dentist. Today I noticed something further on these lines, when the hygienist's use of my lower jaw as stabilizing platform led to my head being pushed back and forth. This made me realize how weak my neck is at holding my head against these forces. And then when the hygienist shift to my upper jaw, all of a sudden my head became more stable. Links to this post. Art #2: Statuary and Statutory Animacy. Two related phenomena that I ran in...
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Learning to Be: Phenomenon #2: Pears, Pairing and Thinking Symbols in the Body
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Phenomenon #2: Pears, Pairing and Thinking Symbols in the Body. In which the author learns about the bodily nature of symbols shopping for pears. In this very reaching, something else appears. This is Vito Corleone's gesture (beautifully and compellingly acted by Robert de Niro in Godfather: Part II. The towel that he later uses to silence the gun and that catches on fire? About the film in my lived-body as moving. Become symbol. To put it in Merleau-Ponteian terms, fruit is not in the first instance...
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Learning to Be: Experiment #1: Bilingualism & Biworldism
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Experiment #1: Bilingualism and Biworldism. For a while now, psychologists have known that being bilingual correlates with improved performance in certain perceptual. Consider a situation where you are asked to indicate whether the arrow in the centre of the following two arrays is pointing to the left or right: 1) 2) ««««. Results show that bilingual people are better at this task; they aren't as thrown off, we could say, by the arrows pointing in incongruent directions. This raises interesting question...
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Learning to Be: October 2009
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Phenomenon #1: Digits vs. the Visual Expanse they Occupy. The legibility of digits in a crossed out or highlighted series appears to block quick location of the next digit in the series to cross out. But it turns out that when youre doing multiple counts in different boxes, and looking from box to box, its hard to quickly see whether there are four strokes in the group, i.e., whether a horizontal stroke is called for. (Its very different if youre doing just one count, in which case the four v...Consider ...
