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Timepiece of Humanity - "Our Present"
I have for a time now been thinking of presenting the "present" chapter with direct quotations from contemporary texts and articles that reinforce the chronosomatic theory. For example, I will recall the Duality/Twin article from the New Yorker, finding Schumpeter in the Time magazine article, the Megatrends Asia Charlie Rose interview, and how that inspired my thinking of metabolic nations and the real nature of modern revolution, and also the Eisenman interview/symposium on Charlie Rose, and how it relates directly to metabolism. I will also relate how the Body, Imagination, and Architecture began to take over the Timepiece of Humanity in terms of ongoing development and soon became a combined effort.
Vico and the Campo Marzio
"Giambattista Vico's Scieza nuova (1744) was a work whose importance remained for a long time unrecognized, partly, no doubt, because of the obscure and scholasic manner in which the Italian philosopher expressed his ideas. Central to the book is the contention that the kind of knowledge which men can achieve of their own actions, creations, and institutions--the material of history--is of a radically different kind from the knowledge that is acquired by the observation and investigation of the nonhuman or "natural" world: indeed, knowledge of the former type is of a superior or "more certain" character. In order truly to know something it is necessary in some sense to have made it, and where as the reality which the physical scientist studies is the creation of God and therefore only properly known to him, "the world of nations" that forms the subject matter of history is the creation of men and is therefore something that men can "hope to know." Thus Vico was led to stress the differences rather than the analogies between historical and other forms of inquiry and laid emphasis upon the need for the historian to recreate imaginatively the spirit of the past ages and the outlook and attitudes of mind possessed by the men who lived in them, instead of trying to impose upon them inappropriate interpretive models--"Pseudomyths"--suggested by ways of thinking and feeling current in his own time."
BIA: Scott/Wilson connection
And now, just looking up 'natural' in the Encyclopedia Britannica index, there is a citing (Philosophical) which refers to "natural" qualities vs. "unnatural" qualities, but that reference/distinction goes back only to the early 1900s.
new dexterity This is now encouraging me to try and be outlandish and as extreme as possible in all the ways that digital data can now be manipulated. |
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