INTRUDED
he intruded upon her
telerehabilitation haptic interfaces,
with his
metaphysical presuppositions.
and finally embedded himself
in her
somatosensory space
via haptic matching tasks
Patrick noninformative visual information poet
Cheers all
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Roger Day
Sent: 12 September 2008 09:00
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Subject: Re: space questions (spaced out???)
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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