Just an idea kicking round my head when i woke up this morning... i'm sure it's been discussed and commented on already somewhere, but couldn't find anything on a quick search...
So I was thinking about Droid's great 95 Jungle thread and how it's not quite the jungle i like best. And then for some reason i connected it to orgasm (dont ask me why) and how you could perhaps think of musical movements as mimicking or being modelled by the sex act: build up, orgasm, post chill, something like that. i'm sure reynolds must have addressed this? the idea of conceptualising music in terms of shagging? or barty?
but then my thoughts widened out a bit and I thought more broadly in terms of the 'modular' as a way of conceptualising a whole lot. So i mean the way the human body has been used to think about all sorts of different things...
So i think most recently i've been reading the thomas moynihan book 'spinal catastrophism' and there's this recapitulation theory popular in the nineteenth century and up to modernism, where it was thought that the (human) spine represents within it all previous forms of animal and fish life, so the base of the spine, those bones, they are fish, then as you travel up the spine, you get into mammals and finally humans. the idea that you could recreate all life out of a human spine.
and then i remember reading about le corbusier and his obsession with the modular, basically mapping the human body, its dimensions and proportions, onto architecture and building. and thinking of a city as a person.
forensic archtiecture is wher ei read about this most recently i think, there is a section all about the satellite image pixellation available to human rights groups, of bomb deaths, where basically it is lawful for the pixellation depth to essentially obscure the human, so that its hard for groups keeping tabs on drone attacks (say) to figure out whats going on from the data, cos the pixel depth has been calibrated alongisde the dimensions of the human body, purposefully.
and then i was thinking of yyaldrin's comments on the new design, the idea of dissensus becoming more human with the curved edges (and again, i know its already been discussed in other threads). got me onto the idea of breaking out of this anthropocentric way of thinking about design and planning... as in, whats the machinic design doing in terms of 'modular'? Are the features of the user interfaces we now use modular in a new way?
The modular of the hand: I can hold together approximately 5 disparate thoughts.
So I was thinking about Droid's great 95 Jungle thread and how it's not quite the jungle i like best. And then for some reason i connected it to orgasm (dont ask me why) and how you could perhaps think of musical movements as mimicking or being modelled by the sex act: build up, orgasm, post chill, something like that. i'm sure reynolds must have addressed this? the idea of conceptualising music in terms of shagging? or barty?
but then my thoughts widened out a bit and I thought more broadly in terms of the 'modular' as a way of conceptualising a whole lot. So i mean the way the human body has been used to think about all sorts of different things...
So i think most recently i've been reading the thomas moynihan book 'spinal catastrophism' and there's this recapitulation theory popular in the nineteenth century and up to modernism, where it was thought that the (human) spine represents within it all previous forms of animal and fish life, so the base of the spine, those bones, they are fish, then as you travel up the spine, you get into mammals and finally humans. the idea that you could recreate all life out of a human spine.
and then i remember reading about le corbusier and his obsession with the modular, basically mapping the human body, its dimensions and proportions, onto architecture and building. and thinking of a city as a person.
forensic archtiecture is wher ei read about this most recently i think, there is a section all about the satellite image pixellation available to human rights groups, of bomb deaths, where basically it is lawful for the pixellation depth to essentially obscure the human, so that its hard for groups keeping tabs on drone attacks (say) to figure out whats going on from the data, cos the pixel depth has been calibrated alongisde the dimensions of the human body, purposefully.
and then i was thinking of yyaldrin's comments on the new design, the idea of dissensus becoming more human with the curved edges (and again, i know its already been discussed in other threads). got me onto the idea of breaking out of this anthropocentric way of thinking about design and planning... as in, whats the machinic design doing in terms of 'modular'? Are the features of the user interfaces we now use modular in a new way?
The modular of the hand: I can hold together approximately 5 disparate thoughts.