Well, it's all relative as Einstein announced with a big bang ...
Very interested in the links - like Patrick, I'm extremely ignorant in
these regions. I feel the pull of unknown terms. I shall spend this
weekend perusing the links.
thanks
Roger
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Christopher C Jones
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> Distortions of perspective it may be? It may well be the position from
> which I pose such a query but could it be said that the question of
> space is the big question that spans the 20th century?
>
> I was just interrupted by a telemarketing cold call which I then
> immediately hang up on so have forgotten the question.
>
> >From Husserl and phenomenology on to Heidegger and beyond to Deleuze's
> metaphysics it appears that philosophy seems to make a claim for space
> as the big question of the 20th C. The claim that these philosophers are
> concerned with time it seems to me would be to misplace the question?
> William James questioning transcendental philosophy, without reading
> again, also seems a question of space. Einstein, no doubt, makes a new
> claim for space in theoretical physics and mathematics.
>
> Rightly or wrongly this seems, for me, to return again and again to
> questions of form. Poetic forms in free verse, prose novels and art
> photography... all with a big question of space hanging over them?
>
> Some years back on this forum there was a discussion of open form and
> New Poetry and not wishing to start another war it does seem that the
> big differences were again questions of space. This could be a question
> of open and closed spaces with ethical questions of one over the other?
> (It could be said that closed forms allow an immanent critique
> foreclosed to open form?)
>
> At the risk of a short circuit, it could be said that against a
> pragmatics of time which occupies the greater part of my formal
> education in poetry writing, poetics and aesthetics and many others, it
> could be said that a pragmatics of space is yet to find any solutions.
> This would include a pragmatics of affects with such illuminating names
> as William James and Silvan Tomkins? Are we still in the arena of space
> and affects and still without time?
>
>
> Just some URLs of articles I have been reading and found using google
> search: haptic space perception
>
>
> Remembrance of places past: a history
> of theories of space
>
> http://www.cognitivemap.net/HCMpdf/Ch1.pdf
>
>
> Noninformative vision improves haptic spatial perception
>
> http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=13964253
>
> article on haptic computer interfaces
>
> http://csdl2.computer.org/comp/mags/mu/2006/03/u3022.pdf
>
> (There are other articles on jstor and ingenta but I no longer have
> research library access to these thanks to illness.)
>
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