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Post-Modernism versus Science
2008-05-13 12:44:00 A few months ago I mentioned about how people shouldn’t take science, on faith, but instead on data. Put another way, this is about post-modernism, or anti-modernism, where facts and their interpretations are all relative, at least to some degree. I came across an outstanding essay on the subject by Daniel Dennett over on Butterflies ...
DeCon Post Modernism meets Gaudi in Singapore
2008-02-07 08:25:00 Institutions of higher learning are not generally associated with any form of modern architecture. Aside from a few notables like Art Center School of Design in Pasadena and a hand full of others scattered around the globe, most people generally associate finer colleges and universities with stoic, stone carved vestiges of a time when men wore velvet and women were discouraged from even reading about velvet. A perfect example of how far we have come from that era is the LaSalle SIA Art College in Singapore. Housing six different schools of art in one fluid structure, architectural firm RSP have created an “Art Canyon” effect that successfully focuses the living energy internally. This internal focus ingeniously serves a dual purpose; by creating a creative hive effect of activity, while at the same time saving valuable real estate in a city quickly running out of usuable space. A near perfect example of form following function.Architect: RSPSource: yankodesign.com
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DeCon Post Modernism meets Gaudi in Singapore
2008-02-07 00:00:00 Institutions of higher learning are not generally associated with any form of modern architecture. Aside from a few notables like Art Center School of Design in Pasadena and a hand full of others scattered around the globe, most people generally associate finer colleges and universities with stoic, stone carved vestiges of a time when men ...
Modern Art: Impressionism to Post-Modernism (Hardcover)
2008-01-27 03:01:00 Modern Art: Impressionism to Post-Modernism (Hardcover)By David Britt Buy new: $19.77 Customer Rating: First tagged “pop” by Eugene Tenenbaum “reluctant reader” Customer tags: dada, expressionism, cubism, constructivism, pluralism, fauvism, futurism, abstract expressionism, ...
Post Modernism
2008-01-14 19:18:00 “All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche The modern times have brought to us many changes. It was the time where many revolutions and transformations. It ?emerged out of the discovery that human order is vulnerable, contingent and devoid ...
By: GreyMaterial
Post modernism and the left
2007-01-22 12:38:00 There is a heated debate on postmodernism on the World Socialist website: An exchange with a reader on postmodernism Here was my comment: The debate on PM can actually be resolved somewhat by referring to early Marx, and by taking into account more contemporary interpretations of theories of practice. Marx’s work on alienation actually dealt with the philosphical issues debated here rather well, but in a nascent form. He pointed out the human need for a relationship with the material, as formed by our actions, a way of recognising ourselves in the world. He also pointed out how mechanisms of exchange tended to generalise the fruits of people’s labour, thus obscuring the possibility of people recognizing themselves in the world. If you carry the analogy from the material to the representational, then you can see that the project of Marxism is to humanise representation as well as production. From this standpoint it is clear that there is a need to pay attention to how p... |
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