art, value, money, trade, … [read full article]
Posts tagged with '115 Time'
It’s interesting because it’s not only has two answers in English but it’s ambiguous in many other languages as well, including Chinese. Yet, oddly, while it’s ambiguous in Swiss-German it’s not ambiguous in Standard German, so that’s at least one that keeps things straightforward.
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Remembered a poem I wrote at 17 about Time where I had the line: “TIME IS THE MEASURE BETWEEN EVENTS BUT NOTHING EVER HAPPENS” and I realized: wait, that’s wrong. So I started to draw poorly. I started with “TIME IS THE MEASURE BETWEEN” and after I finished: “clock timestamps”
Remembered a poem I
… [read full article]2013, June 22, part of unpublished thing: Slip is Where boundaries come from. Grip is how things group together within a boundary. But, the process of frictionless slipping is the source of all gripping. Wait: two things that touch and do not slip, they grip. But the opportunity to slip must come before the grip.
2013, June 22, part
… [read full article]Liminality is the fancy anthropological / ethnography / jungian version of the concept I’ve been dancing around not seeing just out of sight in the corner somewhere. A few people have said it through the years and it didn’t click but now it did. Limen (barely perceptible difference) comes from the latin limen which is a doorway.
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Going from English to Igbo to Chinese to Russian and back distilled this nice break showing that measure is an abstract object I think? It looks pretty anyway.
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