Steve, to be honest i do not read much anymore for several
reasons, but the book has crossed my path and yet i am not
able to dig into a deep text, especially architectural, but it
seems like an interesting and important views of things.
about the salted-body... i've always wondered this myself,
the relation of salt to (life)... especially when the 'saltworks'
of what-is-the-name typological architect from 18-19th c.
France (Lutyens maybe?) did that neo-brutal cave-making
of townscaping the mindbind. salt pills, depression and even
lithium (salt, isn't it...), salt water and not being able to live
on it, and then the sparking of water w/electricity to make it
into some electrolyte/electrolytic process (know not a thing
about it, still confused how it works)... the relation of the
transformation of materials by electricity (take steel for
example, in both the structural engineering and the material
science of getting the atoms to congeal in a certain mixture).
the heartbeat thing has me though. i cannot figure any of it
out. even a somewhat simple thing like: does the body use
AC and-or DC power, is a 'both', from what i have read, in
that parts of the nervous system are analog, parts digital.
maybe a connection to the earlier post, and related to the
'mapping' subject, is that of earlier philosopher-types who
had some generalist knowledge, maybe not though, so the
same. but it arose in my eyes that maybe a comparison may
be that of a neurophysicist or neuroscientist or 'brain-mapper'
where cognitive psychology can become philosophy (as can
the psychiatric-philosophy of D&G or Foucault for example).
and then, just for sake of comparison, Lutyenesque, is to
wonder if the models of the brain/mind, the conceptual
relationships, the planning, organization, intent, interaction,
whatever knowledge and understanding are there, and what-
ever of it (must be a lot) is not understood, is like Calvino's
city of dreams, literalized. where synapses and neurons and
all the rest are a type of idealized city, a unified architecture
or human saltworks, deciphered as if a storybook by authors
of these 'advanced' internal/mortal scripts (and scriptures
of present-day orthodox science and technological zeitgeist).
it is quite a lame example, all the energy is zapped away, as
the idea disappears upon writing about it. the mind as ideal
city, the mind-mapper as architect, as philosopher in a sense,
in the old-sense, of earlier general knowledge, and now in a
newer sense of specialized experts of this city of images,
from which we mediate with eachothger and within ourselves.
just some thoughts (no these, not even an opinion. just nothing.)
bc
reasons, but the book has crossed my path and yet i am not
able to dig into a deep text, especially architectural, but it
seems like an interesting and important views of things.
about the salted-body... i've always wondered this myself,
the relation of salt to (life)... especially when the 'saltworks'
of what-is-the-name typological architect from 18-19th c.
France (Lutyens maybe?) did that neo-brutal cave-making
of townscaping the mindbind. salt pills, depression and even
lithium (salt, isn't it...), salt water and not being able to live
on it, and then the sparking of water w/electricity to make it
into some electrolyte/electrolytic process (know not a thing
about it, still confused how it works)... the relation of the
transformation of materials by electricity (take steel for
example, in both the structural engineering and the material
science of getting the atoms to congeal in a certain mixture).
the heartbeat thing has me though. i cannot figure any of it
out. even a somewhat simple thing like: does the body use
AC and-or DC power, is a 'both', from what i have read, in
that parts of the nervous system are analog, parts digital.
maybe a connection to the earlier post, and related to the
'mapping' subject, is that of earlier philosopher-types who
had some generalist knowledge, maybe not though, so the
same. but it arose in my eyes that maybe a comparison may
be that of a neurophysicist or neuroscientist or 'brain-mapper'
where cognitive psychology can become philosophy (as can
the psychiatric-philosophy of D&G or Foucault for example).
and then, just for sake of comparison, Lutyenesque, is to
wonder if the models of the brain/mind, the conceptual
relationships, the planning, organization, intent, interaction,
whatever knowledge and understanding are there, and what-
ever of it (must be a lot) is not understood, is like Calvino's
city of dreams, literalized. where synapses and neurons and
all the rest are a type of idealized city, a unified architecture
or human saltworks, deciphered as if a storybook by authors
of these 'advanced' internal/mortal scripts (and scriptures
of present-day orthodox science and technological zeitgeist).
it is quite a lame example, all the energy is zapped away, as
the idea disappears upon writing about it. the mind as ideal
city, the mind-mapper as architect, as philosopher in a sense,
in the old-sense, of earlier general knowledge, and now in a
newer sense of specialized experts of this city of images,
from which we mediate with eachothger and within ourselves.
just some thoughts (no these, not even an opinion. just nothing.)
bc