"The senses speak to the understanding: ”Poor understanding, from us
you took the pieces of evidence and with them you want to throw us
down? This down throwing will be your fall.”
Democritus
Dear Martin
I think we should rephrase 'primacy of words over images' to either
'primacy of left brain over right brain' or 'primacy of fragmented
engagement over wholistic engagement' or 'primacy of mind over senses'
to make issue clearer. Words make one think where as images makes one
see. Seeing demands total participation of the being and not just the
mind.
That is why I said Nick Sousanis is missing the point. Experiencing a
huge banyan tree or a tiny plant in real life is so very different
from seeing their images, how much ever well drawn in a book. The
immensity of the tree or the fragileness of the tiny plant can only be
senses, felt and known. This impacts your whole being.
Off course with in the western academia this could be a big step. I am
saying one now needs to step outside the book and fall in to the lap
of nature.
Eduardo
Hope you won't mind if i say you are missing the point when you say
"there is not much doubt about that writing is a form of drawing".
The point is what does writing does to you and what does drawing does
to you. As I mentioned earlier drawing activates seeing instead of
thinking.
Also the theory dominance of vision is also another myth. It is the
mind that begins to exert in literate cultures and not the eye.
Literacy re configures the biological aspects of making sense of the
world into psychological.
Jinan
On 18/10/2015, Eduardo corte-real <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Jinan, Keith, Martin, Anthi,
> There is not much doubt about that writing is a form of drawing. Tim Ingold
> in “Lines: a Brief History” stressed this. The linearity underlying writing
> corresponds to a discipline inherent to drawing. Both writing and “drawings”
> share a visual dominance in human cultures. You might say that some cultures
> are not as visually dominated as others, but the fact is that when visual
> apparatus invade a human culture, they usually win over other forms.
> It is interesting that you bring books into the discussion. A dissertation
> is, after all, a book and consequently should obey to formal requirements of
> that “format”. Our books, the books of our time, are heirs of the printed
> book in which letters and sentences were no longer drawn but mechanically
> printed. However, books appear earlier and were naturally profusely mixing
> words and images.
> Best whishes,
> Eduardo
>
>> No dia 18/10/2015, às 12:25, Keith Russell
>> <[log in to unmask]> escreveu:
>>
>> Drawing is a gesture that has no direct relation with verbal language?
>> Verbal language is a gesture that has no direct relation with language.
>>
>> Keith
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>>> On 18 Oct 2015, at 10:20 PM, anthi kosma <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Starting with the quote of Jinan. Le Corbusier mensions the fact that
>>> drawing is a gesture, a corporal movement that has no direct relation
>>> with verbal language. Drawing in many recent definitions in no longer
>>> received as an object. Images of the action is another story of images
>>> and I was wondering if unflatness includes that kind of images. It could
>>> be a nice perspective.
>>> Yours,
>>> Anthi Kosma, Architect, Dea, PhD Independent researcher
>>
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