EdBuffaloe

Last edit May 12, 2003
Poet, photographer. Web site at http://unblinkingeye.com. I read A Pattern Language because my partner and I will need to build a house in a few years. Pattern language has become an organizational paradigm.

Many analogues:

  • The organization of MarshallMcLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy, "a mosaic of perpetually interacting forms."

ISBN 0802060412. Also take note of the convergence of multiple media in the personal computer (print, telephone, photography, film, video, music).

  • The concept of "significant form" in art (see Langer's Feeling And Form

ISBN 0023675004) seems analogous to the "quality without a name." See SignificantForm.

  • Science, art, literature, every aspect of human life involves the manipulation of symbols. See Ernst Cassirer's The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms

ISBN 0300000375. Programming as symbol manipulation (SymbolIsm, SoftwareIsArt).

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